Senate of Virginia

I just want to reassure everybody.

You know, this is the same senator who voted to censure me in the Virginia Senate.

He worked with the Democrats.

He went both ways.

They point to personal advantages and to the fact that South Carolina, a bastion for the former vice president, will be the first primary state in 2028.

L. Louise Lucas, a Portsmouth Democrat and the first woman and first Black person to serve as president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, said rejecting Harris in 2028 could hurt the party with Black women, a core constituency.

"There's no question that people would be upset because you see what happened last time," Lucas said.

For some past supporters, the test is what a second Harris campaign actually offers.

And we were talking about different things.

And he said, what's the one thing you're looking for in 2026? And I said, watch the Virginia Senate race.

The last time Mark Warner was unfettered in a midterm election, which was 2014, he won by 18,000 votes.

over Ed Gillespie.

But here's the one.

that I'm going to throw in here is the Virginia Senate race.

Nobody's talking about it.

Very few people are even mentioning it.

And how many of those districts are competitive?

The State Senate has five seats ranked as competitive, and all of them are currently held by Republicans.

And what about the House?

The House of Delegates has 12 districts ranked as competitive.