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Vega’s GOP win a ‘historic moment for Hispanics;’ How she did it (Virginia)
https://www.potomaclocal.com ^ | Uriah KiserJune 21, 2022

Posted on 06/22/2022 1:26:37 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Yesli Vega is the winner of a Republican Primary Election in Virginia’s 7th District, defeating five other candidates to be the party’s nominee to face incumbent Democrat Abigail Spanberger in the November General Election.

“I am honored the voters of Virginia’s 7th Congressional District have chosen me to be the Republican nominee in the general election this fall. As the first conservative Hispanic to win a republican congressional primary in Virginia, this is a historic moment for Hispanics across Virginia and our nation…

Vega won her home county of Prince William with 52% of the vote. She worked hard to win the western-district counties like Orange (34% of the vote) and Culpeper and Green counties, where she won 32% of the vote in each of the two localities...

Vega was elected to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in 2019. Since then, she’s been critical of the county’s decision to end the 287(g) program — a partnership with federal immigration and customs enforcement that turned over inmates from the county jail who were suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

She continues to be called “racist” by representatives of CASA. This Hispanic advocacy group advocates amnesty for all who crossed into the U.S. illegally and has been awarded more than $7 million from the Board of County Supervisors or a new immigration “welcome” center in Woodbridge.

In the days leading up to the Primary Election, Vega, after consulting with her campaign management firm, released a TV ad discussing her brother’s shooting at the hands of an MS-13 gang member in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County in 2005. He survived, but his friend, also shot in the same incident, died.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
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This would be a great win, if she turned this current congressional seat (D) back to (R).
1 posted on 06/22/2022 1:26:37 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Yesli Vega was on Tucker Carlsen’s show yesterday. Very impressive. Hope she wins.


2 posted on 06/22/2022 1:30:07 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: 11th_VA

She has an EXCELLENT shot at winning this.


3 posted on 06/22/2022 1:31:10 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: 11th_VA

Looks like a funny thing happened on the Dems’ road to demographic inevitability... Hispanics with jobs and families and businesses and houses swung to the right and started voting GOP.


4 posted on 06/22/2022 1:33:31 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: 11th_VA

Yes she can do it. From the map it is outside of NOVA, Richmond and Charlottesville in mostly rural areas...these should be red anyway.


5 posted on 06/22/2022 1:33:36 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: 11th_VA

Stuffing these places with immigrants must not be working out as they planned. Border to be closed immediately.


6 posted on 06/22/2022 1:35:21 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: 11th_VA

Can we please just have victories for Americans?


7 posted on 06/22/2022 1:36:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: 11th_VA

don’t these latinx know that if they don’t vote D, then they ain’t black?

wait, what?

i love it when the D’s plan to import votes turn against them


8 posted on 06/22/2022 1:38:40 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: 11th_VA

This needs to be the focus going forward. hispanics. Forget about most urban blacks, they’re stuck on the D plantation. Get the rural blacks and hispanics and game over.


9 posted on 06/22/2022 1:44:07 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: teeman8r

A significant percentage of illegal comers are hard working and have a desire to raise a family in peace. The demon rat party abandoned those values long ago and it is not missed by the in comers.


10 posted on 06/22/2022 1:44:48 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: BenLurkin

That would be nice - but we have to live in the real world.

Indeed, conservatives having these victories and snatching these districts away from Democrats is really the only shot we have at doing away with the racially based politics. Notice how the first Mexican born person elected to Congress was relatively very little reported. She was on the “wrong side” for it to be noteworthy. I really wish we had not given the Democrats the opportunity to appoint the “first black woman” to the SCOTUS - not to play racial politics, but to destroy it. Bush should not have chickened out on Janice Rogers Brown simply because Democrats pledged a filibuster. Because we all know to the Left, they are not about promoting minorities, but using them and the narratives they can create as a means to an end (just look at their leaked memos on why they blocked Miguel Estrada). Destroy and take away their narrative.


11 posted on 06/22/2022 1:45:36 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: BenLurkin

???

Vega is an American, born in Texas, with a law-enforcement background.


12 posted on 06/22/2022 1:46:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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When the demon rats realize their imported voters are not selecting “D” candidates, look for the demon rats to do things to pit the herdable blacks against the Hispanic in comers.


13 posted on 06/22/2022 1:47:14 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Jamestown1630

I think his point is....She’s an AMERICAN.

Yes, she’s of hispanic heritage.

but.........She’s an AMERICAN.

I have to agree, it sure would be nice to get away from the ‘identity politics’ in all its forms.

President Teddy Roosevelt rejected the notion, and in a 1915 speech before a Catholic audience said “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad…The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”


14 posted on 06/22/2022 1:54:38 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: BenLurkin
Can we please just have victories for Americans?

I know what you’re saying but … it’s important for Hispanics to see it’s OK to vote Republican - for me she’s a great candidate on the issues - if she can reach out to Hispanics - all the better

15 posted on 06/22/2022 1:56:45 PM PDT by 11th_VA (I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
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To: qaz123

Considering the Democrat hopes for their importation of illegals, I think that ethnic Hispanic Americans winning elections is very noteworthy - and not to be ignored just to avoid ‘identity politics’.


16 posted on 06/22/2022 1:57:53 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: TexasGurl24

plus she’s ANTI AMNESTY for illegals. Can’t beat that..


17 posted on 06/22/2022 2:00:32 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: teeman8r

Someone should pass out MAGA hats at the border and the fence would be up in 2 weeks.


18 posted on 06/22/2022 2:04:03 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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Looks like a funny thing happened on the Dems’ road to demographic inevitability... Hispanics with jobs and families and businesses and houses swung to the right and started voting GOP.

Discussion at Dem HQ: "We need to find lazy immigrants who are satisfied to live on the pittance we give them, send their kids to crappy schools, and vote for us forever."

19 posted on 06/22/2022 2:04:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: irishjuggler

That’s what I was hoping for! Miracles can happen, right?


20 posted on 06/22/2022 2:05:19 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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