Can Ben Cline moderate the MAGA inside to survive the 2026 midterms?
Ben Cline apparently hasn’t thought through what Tuesday’s election results in Virginia mean for his job security.
Ben Cline apparently hasn’t thought through what Tuesday’s election results in Virginia mean for his job security.
Waynesboro went blue in Tuesday’s elections, and for context on that, last time we saw the city vote for the Democratic Party nominee in a gubernatorial election was way back in 1985.
Virginia replaced its Republican state ticket with a new Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, and flipped 14 Republican House seats to the Democrats’ side.

The two sides in the 2025 Virginia elections made their closing arguments at dueling rallies on Saturday, the MAGA Republicans in the far reaches of the Northern Virginia exurbs, the Democrats in the heart of Hampton Roads.
A campaign bus for the Winsome Earle-Sears gubernatorial campaign caught fire this afternoon en route to an event in Rockingham County.
Another poll weighted to the 2021 electorate – why do it that way? – has the Virginia lieutenant governor race running tight as a tick.
Dwayne Yancey at Cardinal News has a column up today on how Virginia Democrats are looking to add three or even four more seats to their congressional delegation, which would limit Republicans to two or even one seat.
JMU Athletics did the right thing with the dumb Democrat who was caught on video heckling Winsome Earle-Sears at a football game a couple of weeks back.
Donald Trump doesn’t know the name of Winsome Earle-Sears, but he told reporters, when asked about the Virginia governor’s race Sunday night, that “she” should win, so, he at least knows that Earle-Sears is a “she.”
Donald Trump, doing his best to get Jay Jones elected attorney general in Virginia, “can’t imagine anybody voting for Jay Jones,” the POTUS said on Sunday, answering a reporter in one of his Air Force One gaggles.
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