Nick Freitas was winning in 2020 until they “found” 14K votes on a mysterious flash drive the day after the election.
I don’t think Vindman is a very strong candidate in the general election.
I definitely remember the 2020 flash drive stuff. Deep State Abby was too important to be allowed to lose, and what’s the GOP going to do about a little in-your-face vote fraud? (Nothing.)
I was never much impressed with Vega in 2022; that was more a case of the GOP patting itself on the back because “look, we’re not running a White male!” but they supported her with words far more than they supported her with money or any thing else of importance. Abby had a large advantage in that department, as she always did.
I don’t believe that Vindman is exactly formidable, but he’s got the money and the district does tilt a little to the left. And we KNOW how they count votes around there when things get tight late on election night.
People who didn’t know what they were talking about cheered when the 7th district was redrawn in 2021 to finally exclude the bad Richmond suburban counties (Henrico, Chesterfield) — and failed to notice that they were replaced by an even WORSE part of Prince William County. Republicans had a better chance under the old lines.
Image is from my cell phone the night of the election. Note 98% reporting… even if Spanberger got ever outstanding vote she lost. Nick had it until the mysterious 13th thumb drive was “found” in the middle of the night.
Nick was robbed, and it was blatant. There was so much else going on with DJT being robbed as well.