Shannon Taylor

You agree with your wife on everything? You at 100% agreement with on, uh, with things on her? 'Cause if you do, I don't think you're really married.

But if you don't think that Rob Wittman delivers far more for the first district than the cop-hating, criminal-loving Shannon Taylor would, then, then you are out of your mind.

The second district, Jen Kiggans, breaks her rear end to deliver for the second congressional district, so much so that if you are not going to vote for her, maybe you should join her opponent, Elaine Lauria, in moving out of the second district.

Oh, you didn't realize that? Well, there's a piece of inside baseball for you.

How many, uh, seasonal changes have you seen in Central Virginia, I was gonna say in your lifetime, but heck, we could just say this week? It's kinda what it's gonna be for, for a bit, just FYI.

How desperate is Shannon Taylor? Well, I, I mean, look, we, we, we all knew that, uh, Shannon Taylor, who hates cops and loves criminals, was hell-bent for leather to grab that first congressional district seat.

That is not in any way surprising.

Nobody is shocked by that.

Well, not, not final inc- outcomes.

We have three or four races where Democrats can take back seats, Elaine Luria, Tom Perriello, Shannon Taylor, against, you know, sometimes long-term Republican, um, incumbents.

Uh, th- the President's not popular in Virginia at all for many reasons.

Probably the very first one was that those cuts, um, very-

This year, he is facing the toughest race of his nearly 20 years in office.

His Democratic challenger is Shannon Taylor, Henrico County's Commonwealth's attorney.

VPM News state politics reporter Jad Khalil sat down for a conversation with Whitman and at his Henrico campaign office to talk about his record and what he would do with another two years in Washington.

Well, I want to make sure we continue to work on bringing the cost of living down, lowering cost.

Look at the judgment that she has showed in raising her right hand and swearing to uphold and defend the laws of Henrico County and the laws of the Commonwealth and the things she has done that I would say are not helping victims, not standing on the side of Henrico County citizens, but really being sympathetic to criminals.

That was Representative Rob Wittman, who is running for reelection in Virginia's 1st Congressional District.

You can also see our interview with this challenger, Henrico County's Commonwealth's attorney, Shannon Taylor, at vpm.org.

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