Luria Leads Kiggans by 3 — But GOP Has the Cash and the Polls May Be Fake

All right, we are going to first go to the Virginia Mercury, where we are once again seeing Democrats are in the lead.

This story here, new poll, Virginia's 2nd District lawyer leads Kiggins.

The Democrat leads the Republican by three points.

uh let's see the margin of error of your horse and this too loria holds a narrow lead over kiggins and virginia's closely watched second district this is down near virginia beach hampton roads according to the christopher newport university poll released wednesday But it's a plus or minus 4% margin of error.

So three points, 4% margin of error.

Take it with a grain of salt, right? Loria received 46% support over Kiggins' 43.

Kiggins defeated Loria, a former Democrat congresswoman, in 2022.

Their rematch is among the races Democrats are targeting as they try to regain the House seat.

Both candidates have strong backing within their parties, which chickens leading Republicans 94% to 3% Luria led among Democrats 92 to 1.

Support for the candidates differed sharply between genders.

Women preferred the Democrats, while men preferred the Republican.

All right, that's not anything new.

The it's it's women, particularly white women who are going after the Democrats and and men of all shades are supporting the conservative candidate, the poll.

measured support in the U.S. Senate race.

Democratic incumbent Mark Warner led Republican challenger Burt Mizeswawa by 51% to 37% among likely voters.

You could probably say that he's got name recognition.

Mizeswawa has been out fighting, actually debating, showing up and debating, or at least offering to debate, whereas Warner has not.

Warner has not kept any promises or agreed to debate in any at any point during the campaign.

which is nothing new because we have seen this across many races in Virginia this fall.

One comes to mind on the House side where you had Doug Ollivant, who is the Republican running in Virginia's seventh congressional House race.

That's Prince William County, just south of Fairfax, into Fredericksburg, out toward Culpeper, wanting to debate.

And the incumbent Democrat, Eugene Vindman, not wanting to debate at all, never agreeing to anything.

So it's like the Democrats don't want to appear on stage and take any questions or be held accountable by their voters.

They only want to do campaign-style roundtable events where they can closely control what happens, closely control what questions are asked, and make it look like it is a roundtable, a discussion, but really it's a campaign event.

as opposed to a back and forth discussion about policy and how to best govern Virginia.