Virginia's 2nd congressional district
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Oct 8, 2026
Stephen K. BannonHOST
I wanna, I wanna ...
Stephen K. BannonHOST
What is it gonna take to win this? Because Virginia 1 and Virginia 2 are absolutely essential.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
And, and here's the bad news is I sit through these briefings, whether it's with de Grass or whether it's with Se- ...
Stephen K. BannonHOST
I mean, Seth Keshel had you guys as a soft hold.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
The meeting I had yesterday, they're saying, "Hey, these are two central ones, but these are some of the better ones we've got." I wanna make sure that you're alerting people that that's kinda far from the case, that this thing is totally in the balance and we could easily lose Virginia 1 and they could easily lose Virginia 2 because I think even at the national level, as very smart people look at this, they kinda say, "Well, we, uh, you know, we, we think this one's pretty good hand." They called a soft hold.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
It's anything but that right now, correct? I mean, we're, we're ...
Stephen K. BannonHOST
If we don't ...
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Cortez is going to walk us through this northern tier.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Appreciate you.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Uh, we're gonna drive people over there to sign up to assist you guys in Virginia 1, maybe even get to Virginia 2.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Let's go to Texas.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Debbie Georgatos, one of the great grassroots leaders down there.
Steve BannonHOST
I wanna, I wanna ...
Steve BannonHOST
What is it gonna take to win this? Because Virginia 1 and Virginia 2 are absolutely essential.
Steve BannonHOST
And, and here's the bad news is I sit through these briefings, whether it's with de Grass or whether it's with Se- ...
Steve BannonHOST
I mean, Seth Keshel had you guys as a soft hold.
Steve BannonHOST
The meeting I had yesterday, they're saying, "Hey, these are two central ones, but these are some of the better ones we've got." I wanna make sure that you're alerting people that that's kind of far from the case, that this thing is totally in the balance and we could easily lose Virginia 1 and they could easily lose Virginia 2 because I think even at the national level, as very smart people look at this, they kind of say, "Well, we, uh, you know, we, we think this one's pretty good hand." They called a soft hold.
Steve BannonHOST
It's anything but that right now, correct? I mean, we're, we're ...
Steve BannonHOST
If we don't, if you guys don't pull off your work at the grassroots level, then, uh, we're not gonna win this.
Steve BannonHOST
Cortez is gonna walk us through this northern tier.
Kabir KhannaGUEST
Right? Maybe he won them by single digits.
Kabir KhannaGUEST
So one that we always talk about, it's a perennial bellwether in the House, is Virginia 2 in the Virginia Beach area.
Kabir KhannaGUEST
It's an early poll closing, and this one features a rematch between-
Chris HayesHOST
Right
Chris HayesHOST
some serious wave territory.
Kabir KhannaGUEST
I'll mention a couple.
Kabir KhannaGUEST
Let's stick with Virginia, since it's an early poll close.
Kabir KhannaGUEST
We mentioned Virginia 2.
Seth KeshelGUEST
So out of the three in Pennsylvania, I would say 8 is the best chance for the Republicans to hold.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Um, walk me through, uh, Virginia 2.
Seth KeshelGUEST
Virginia 2 is, is Jen Kiggans' seat.
Seth KeshelGUEST
Now, she won by four points-
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Yeah
Seth KeshelGUEST
...
Seth KeshelGUEST
in 2024.
Seth KeshelGUEST
Trump barely carried Virginia 2's dirt by less than a point.
Martha RaddatzHOST
John and his wife are among the nearly 15% of the district's residents who are veterans, and their daughter among the 5% on active duty.
Martha RaddatzHOST
But Virginia's 2nd District is not just unique because of the percentage of military that lived there.
Martha RaddatzHOST
It is also unique because for the past 18 years,
Michelle CottlePANELIST
whoever won the House District
Dana BashHOST
That is now in yellow.
Dana BashHOST
Virginia 2, which is a rematch between the now incumbent Congresswoman Jen Kagan and Elaine Luria, the Democrat, moved it from toss-up to lean Democrat.
Dana BashHOST
And then Virginia 5 moved that from likely GOP to lean Republican.
Dana BashHOST
What are your thoughts, Ron?
Sean SpicerHOST
All right.
Sean SpicerHOST
Virginia's 2nd District.
Sean SpicerHOST
This is two folks facing off both Navy veterans, Jen Kiggins, the Republican incumbent Navy veteran versus former Congresswoman Elaine Luria, also a Navy veteran.
Sean SpicerHOST
I've heard a lot of concern about Virginia's 2nd District.
Sean SpicerHOST
You've had this as a lean D now going four weeks back.
Sean SpicerHOST
Thoughts on Virginia's 2nd?
Sean SpicerHOST
OK, Florida 14th.
Sean SpicerHOST
I've got to just make sure I went there.
Ed MartinGUEST
And the other one is who the candidates are.
Ed MartinGUEST
So if you look at these races one by one across places like down in Virginia, down in Norfolk, that I think it's Virginia 2, they started to do early voting.
Ed MartinGUEST
And the report, I don't have this confirmed.
Ed MartinGUEST
I'm just going to tell you how you look at these things, is that the city, the urban vote totals are lower than they expected.
Greg DworkinPANELIST
... uh, it's still way too early to tell, and I'm gonna give you, uh, a lot more detail on that But, uh, I do want to remind people that there's a couple of districts that are really worth keeping an eye on.
Greg DworkinPANELIST
Virginia 2, I think Elaine Luria's gonna come back, the once and future representative, and beat, uh, uh, Jen Kiggans, 'cause I don't think she's very good.
David WaldmanHOST
Okay.
Greg DworkinPANELIST
But there are some really heavily Republican pockets, you know-
David WaldmanHOST
Mm-hmm
Greg DworkinPANELIST
... like Pocahontas and others in that, uh, Virginia 2, so it's not a done deal.
Greg DworkinPANELIST
We're talking about Virgi- Virgin- Virginia Beach and military voters, et cetera, et cetera.
Greg DworkinPANELIST
So we'll see.
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