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VA02 (Flip) Kiggans (R), VA07 (Hold) Vindman (D)
Virginia is cementing itself as a midterms bellwether again. Democrats are capitalizing on the anti-Trump sentiment due to cuts in federal services, axing of federal workers, and upcoming pain likely at empty ports due to draconian tariffs. The Virginia governor’s race, November 2025, pits former U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger, D, against Republican Lt.Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. One U.S. House district is shaping up as a possible flip – VA-02, where Republican incumbent Jennifer Kiggans, VA-02, has ducked meetings with constituents who want to voice their concerns about cuts affected by the administration’s budget.
- Republican Kiggans also has taken heat for her defense of tariffs and other Trump executive orders. Cook deems the race is Lean Republican, but it’s a district that has switched parties twice in the past six years. Democrats are targeting that race in the hopes that the backlash against Trump’s unpopular cuts and policies could swing the district to them.
- In VA-07, Incumbent Democrat Eugene Vindman who had won his seat when Spanberger left Congress, is serving his first term. He was in the Army from 1997 to 2022 and earned a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2009.
- Gubernatorial candidate Spanberger, a former CIA office, served three terms in Congress. Republican Earle-Sears is a former U.S. Marine whose only elected post is her present one.
- In the Virginia House of Delegates, Democrats hold a razor-thin majority. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is making a seven-figure investment in races there. i Four Republican delegates are not seeking re-election; two in districts formerly held by Democrats. Electing a Democratic governor and expanding the Democratic control of the state legislature will set the tone for 2026 and beyond.
