McAuliffe, who had outpolled and fundraised his four competitors, next takes on Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in what could be Virginia’s most expensive gubernatorial race.

Terry McAuliffe has led his Democratic opponents in fundraising and polling, largely because his a known quantity that Virginia voters recognize in the off-year primary.

Violent crime victims opposed bringing back parole, while families of the incarcerated said their loved ones deserved a second chance.

This year’s elections mean a majority of the legislature will be women as of 2021.

Juli Briskman antagonized Trump at his golf course for three years, but says she’s ready to bury the hatchet now that Joe Biden was elected. Some Trump supporters, with backing from prominent Virginia Republicans, don’t accept the results of the vote.

A proposed amendment to Virginia’s Constitution would change how voting districts are drawn every 10 years, but Democrats who long supported the cause — and are now in power — are urging voters to reject it.

Virginia’s statewide election isn’t until next year but Tim Hugo and Elizabeth Guzman just joined an expanding list of candidates for the state’s second-highest office.

Vice President Mike Pence will speak to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute days after President Trump was reported to have called fallen service members “suckers” and “losers.”

A coalition of environmental and community groups across Virginia have been leading opposition to the project since 2014.

Eileen Filler-Corn, a Democrat, says lawmakers will convene three public hearings on how to reform police and the criminal justice system.