Posted on 04/16/2020 8:06:19 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey
Republicans in the Richmond area will have a month and a half longer to pick a nominee to run against Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, in November.
The coronavirus pandemic also is pushing the Virginia Democratic Convention into the virtual realm.
A Richmond judge on Tuesday granted a request from the Republican Party of Virginia to push the deadline for nominating a challenger from June 9 to July 28. The party had been scheduled to hold a convention April 25 at the Arthur Ashe Center in Richmond, but is looking into other options with executive orders from Gov. Ralph Northam limiting large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans are choosing from six candidates in a bid to unseat Spanberger, whose 2018 victory over Rep. Dave Brat helped flip the GOP-led House of Representatives to a Democratic majority.
Just renominate Brat. Problem solved.
He’s now the dean of Liberty University’s business school, and doing quite well. Done with politics.
The VA GOP will just continue its “it’s safer to do nothing” approach, and nominate nobody, just as they did for 25% of the legislative elections in November.
VA showed what the rats to do when you get the power. They have enacted every laundry list item they have had for over a decade and they did it quick. They don’t have a-hole gatekeepers like Paul Ryan who toss out crumbs the base. The election laws they shoved through will make it so they will probably never lose power again. This is how you conduct war.
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