Off-year votes deliver bad news for the GOP
Nov 08, 2019
3 minutes
By Molly Ball/Manassas, Va.
PHOTOGRAPH BY HARRISON MCCLARY
THE CHAIR OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Committee, Tom Perez, looked out at a jubilant crowd on the evening of Nov. 5. “Two years ago,” he said, “you here in Virginia taught America that we Democrats could win again. Tonight you’re going to finish the business.”
Perez’s prediction proved accurate. Democrats seized control of both houses of Virginia’s state legislature for the first time in more than two decades, aided by high turnout. It was an intensification of the
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