
What happened in Staunton? Massive turnout flips Queen City from blue to red
Staunton City Council incumbents Ophie Kier, James Harrington and Erik Curren all outperformed their 2016 vote totals in their 2020 re-election runs.

Staunton City Council incumbents Ophie Kier, James Harrington and Erik Curren all outperformed their 2016 vote totals in their 2020 re-election runs.

Staunton, a usually reliable Democratic stronghold in the conservative Shenandoah Valley, went surprisingly Republican in Tuesday’s City Council elections.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, on the heels of a race-redefining win in South Carolina, rolled to a big win in the Virginia Democratic Party presidential primary on Super Tuesday.

Chris Bolling, late of Terry McAuliffe’s Common Good VA PAC, and former executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, has joined Team Bloomberg.

Joe Biden has a double-digit lead in the Democratic presidential race, and Donald Trump is gaining in the hypothetical matchups for next November.

You can’t be surprised to have heard that the president is trying to use the Washington Nationals to distract attention from his pending impeachment.

President Trump wants dirt on Joe Biden, and because we know he wants dirt on Joe Biden, he’s now facing impeachment.

President Trump, through his White House counsel, has gone full-blown “fuck you” to the U.S. Constitution, and if you listen closely, you can hear our swan song quietly in the background.

Elizabeth Warren has a narrow lead over Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic Party nomination, and Donald Trump is wildly unpopular.

You want to blame Donald Trump for being the source of the torrent of racism that now dominates American politics, but all he’s really done is normalize thought and speech that had been delegitimized a generation ago.
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