Hard-fought campaigns featuring crowded slates of candidates in two Virginia congressional district 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. However, 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….