Hard-fought campaigns featuring crowded slates of candidates in two Virginia U.S. House Republican primaries highlight a relatively light schedule of preliminary inter-party elections set for June 21.
Virginia and the District of Columbia are the only primaries on the June 21 docket. Meanwhile, some voters in Alabama and Georgia will be headed to the polls to resolve unfinished post-primary business in the form of runoffs.
In Virginia, Republican voters will be selecting candidates to challenge Democratic incumbents in two congressional districts that the GOP believes it can flip and turn the commonwealth’s 7–4 Democratic-majority congressional delegation to 6–5 in favor of Republicans.
Virginia’s 2nd and 7th districts are among 22 congressional districts nationwide occupied by incumbent Democrats that the Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI) rates as “tossups”—likely to produce significant congressional gains for Republicans….