Virginia

In 2020 Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Virginia twice since William Howard Taft. Then in 2024 Trump lost once more, this time to Kamala Harris. Now he has in effect lost it a fourth time as Virginia voters approved on Tuesday a fiercely contested referendum redrawing congressional districts to favor Democratic congressional candidates in the 2026 midterm elections. “This is really a country election. The whole country is watching,” Trump said. If so, it watched Trump suffer a major blow – one that will prompt renewed questions about his political acuity and judgment. It was Trump, after all, who kicked off the spate of gerrymandering in August 2025 by demanding that Texas Republicans engage in geographic contortions to deprive Democrats,

She campaigned on the basis of what she was not: not Trump, not MAGA

The races are being talked of – rightly or not – as an early test for Trump

Republicans have capitalized on Jay Jones’s moral bankruptcy, but the state’s Democrats only want to talk about Trump

Can we trust you to count, America?

‘Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her stop’

The battle between smokestack chasers and economic diversifiers

Washington Dulles could find itself rebranded

‘They literally delayed the signing of a budget,’ the governor said of the tax rebate checks

Can Virginia be a model for Republicans nationwide?

Hardly the most undignified thing an aspiring politician has done for money