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Democratic election victories in Virginia and New Jersey showed Republicans losing more ground in suburban areas, where President Donald Trump's unpopularity could cost them dearly in next year's congressional races. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump greets supporters as he departs for Bedminster, New Jersey, from the White House in Washington, U.S., September 29, 2017.
Seizing his party's first major Trump-era victory, Democrat Ralph Northam beat back a charge from Republican Ed Gillespie in the race for Virginia governor, a bruising election that tested the power of President Donald Trump's fiery nationalism against the energy of the Trump resistance. "I think what this message was yesterday that Virginia sent not only to this country, but to this world, is that the divisiveness, the hatred, the bigotry, the politics that is tearing this country apart, that's not the United States of America that people love," Northam said Wednesday at a news conference at Virginia's Capitol.
Danica Roem, a Democrat who is running for Virginia's House of Delegates against GOP incumbent Robert Marshall, casts her vote at Buckhall Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, in Manassas, Va. If Roem wins she would be the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a state legislature in the United States.
A Twitter account misleading Democratic voters in Virginia by telling them they could cast their ballot by text message was active for almost three hours on Tuesday morning before Twitter suspended the account. The account, "MAGA Mike King," was suspended after it tweeted more than a dozen times a graphic purportedly instructing Virginians on how to vote by text and including the logos of the Democratic Party and its gubernatorial candidate, Ralph Northam.
Republican candidate for the governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie arrives to vote at Washington Mill Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. Mohan Shrestha, a new U.S. citizen originally from Nepal, takes his ballot to vote for the first time in an election at Hillsboro Old Stone School in Purcellville, Va.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday quickly sought to distance himself from Republican gubernatorial hopeful Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race as Democrat Ralph Northam was projected to win by multiple news outlets. "Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for," Trump said on Twitter in the midst of his visit to South Korea, as Virginia results continued to roll in, suggesting a comfortable Northam victory.
Republican candidate for Virginia Attorney General, John Adams pauses as he delivers a concession speech during an election party in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Adams lost to incumbent Mark Herring.
Just hours to go before Virginia voters pick their next governor and both candidates are working to get out the vote. Voters go to the polls Tuesday to select the next governor of Virginia, a decision that observers around the country are closely watching for larger meaning about the political landscape in the era of President Trump.
One of the more annoying doubles standards displayed by the left-leaning press is how they ask genuine follow-up questions of Republicans and conservatives who try to dodge their questions, while letting Democrats and liberals slide when they engage in similar behavior. A perfect example of this occurred Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press , when, prompted by a Latino Victory Fund ad portraying supporters of Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie as murderous, Confederate flag-waving.
Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine ran away from The Daily Caller Tuesday when asked about his thoughts on the decision of a local church in Alexandria to remove plaques honoring President George Washington, a founder and parishioner of the historic church. Kaine told TheDC he would not answer the question, as he was on his way to deliver a floor speech on war powers.
"I can't really think of the last time I've been in a client meeting over the past six months where they haven't asked me what I think that Congress is going to do with tax reform," says Stephen Kimberlin, a CPA who is senior tax manager at Dixon Hughes Goodman in Richmond. "It goes hand-in-hand.
In this Saturday April 30, 2016, file photo, Chairman of the Virginia Republican Party John Whitbeck, speaks during the Virginia State Republican Convention in Harrisonburg, Va. Political observers say this fall's elections for Virginia's Republican-controlled House of Delegates could be an early referendum on President Donald Trump's first year in office and a bellwether for the 2018 midterms.
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A divided panel of federal regulators granted approvals Friday evening for the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley natural gas pipelines, major East Coast projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's authorization had been widely expected by both supporters and opponents of the pipelines.