
VCU Poll: Kaine leads U.S. Senate race by 23 points
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine holds a 23-point lead — 49 percent to 26 percent — over Republican Corey Stewart among likely voters in Virginia’s Senate race.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine holds a 23-point lead — 49 percent to 26 percent — over Republican Corey Stewart among likely voters in Virginia’s Senate race.

Governor McAuliffe joined with a bipartisan group of governors in a statement in response to recent developments with the Senate healthcare bill.

Sen. Tim Kaine has big leads on two possible big-name Republican challengers in an early, early look at his 2018 re-election race.

The House of Delegates has passed a bill that would allow future governors to leave a vacated U.S. Senate seat unfilled practically indefinitely.

Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Pat Toomey (R-PA) to introduce the bipartisan Stopping Medication Abuse and Protecting Seniors Act to prevent inappropriate access to opioids and improve patient care for at-risk beneficiaries.

Shak Hill endorsed Republican state senate candidate Dan Moxley in the race for the 24th State Senate District. Hill is a former Republican candidate for United States Senate.

Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie has formally conceded the Virginia U.S. Senate race to Democrat Mark Warner, saying in a Friday news conference that a recount, permissible under state law due to the race’s tight margin, would not make a difference.

WINNER: Ed Gillespie OK, he lost, sure. But we expected him to lose. Just not by 18,000 votes. (Maybe 18 points, but not 18,000 votes.) Now Gillespie is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee for governor in 2017.

U.S. Term Limits, the nation’s oldest and largest term limits advocacy group, praised Virginia U.S. Senate Candidate Robert Sarvis for promising to support and co-sponsor an amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting congressional terms.

Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner and Republican challenger Ed Gillespie will debate tonight at 7 p.m. EDT. The candidates will meet at the WCVE PBS TV studios in Richmond, VA. The debate is co-produced by WCVE PBS and WTVR CBS 6, and co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Virginia and AARP Virginia.
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