2024 election
- Virginia legislator Louise Lucas was allowed to use campaign funds for her defense. So she did.
State Sen. Louise Lucas, the powerful Portsmouth Democrat, used $300,000 in campaign funds to contribute to her legal defense fund and hire a law firm following an FBI raid in May on her businesses in Portsmouth. That’s a sizable amount. What The Virginian-Pilot article should have noted higher in the story was that Lucas was […]
- Trump wraps up long, hard campaign with a stop in Southwest Virginia; Harris never came to state
Trump supporters drove from as far away as Kentucky to see former President Trump speak in Salem, VA Nov. 2.
- Virginia asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn voter roll purge decision by federal judge
Virginia election officials on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling by a federal judge that would bar them from reviving a program put in place in August by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin intended to remove suspected noncitizens from the state’s voting rolls. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles on Friday ordered the […]
- Trump to hold campaign rally in Salem Nov. 2
Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally at the Salem Civic Center at 1001 Roanoke Blvd. in Salem, VA on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. Salem Republican Committee Chairman Robert Andrews said, “We had heard rumblings that he may be making an appearance in the New River Valley. I got a phone call, […]