It’s three days before Virginia’s June 21 primary and the last day for early voting, so candidates in inter-party contests across the commonwealth are making their final pitches in the battles for berths on November’s ballot.
What matters now in this 11th-hour push before Tuesday’s primary is face-time with residents on their doorsteps, in shopping centers, and at churches in a concerted drive to be the name they remember in polling booths in a few days.
That last-72-hour scramble is always intense in contested elections, but it may be no more frenetic anywhere in the nation at this point in the 2022 midterm election cycle than in Virginia’s Congressional District 7 (CD 7) Republican primary….