Can Virginia Be Fixed?
Posted By: Christopher L, 4/28/2026 12:19:43 PM
Election Day 2025 was a broad disaster for Republicans. Everyone could see that. New Jersey stayed blue, but Virginia went back to being blue at the state level, and the Virginia Democrat party took greater dominance over the Old Dominion’s state legislature. Nationally, Republicans could not avoid the backlash in voter turnout, since the common pattern is that the party out of power rebounds in the Virginia and New Jersey elections the year after the Presidential election. However, Democrats didn’t just rebound, they superabounded, especially in Virginia. It didn’t have to end this way.
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Can Virginia Be Fixed?
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Election Day 2025 was a broad disaster for Republicans. Everyone could see that.
New Jersey stayed blue, but Virginia went back to being blue at the state level, and the Virginia Democrat party took greater dominance over the Old Dominion’s state legislature.
Nationally, Republicans could not avoid the backlash in voter turnout, since the common pattern is that the party out of power rebounds in the Virginia and New Jersey elections the year after the Presidential election. However, Democrats didn’t just rebound, they superabounded, especially in Virginia.
It didn’t have to end this way.
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Fenway Park Video Shows the America We Lost
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The Supreme Court Established 140 Years
Ago That Foreign Nationals Born in the
U.S. Are Not Citizens 10 replies
Ago That Foreign Nationals Born in the
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New York City's self-described democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has made history, just not the kind worth bragging about. Barely months into office, he has blown past a statutory budget deadline for the first time since 2015, declared a fiscal crisis of "historic magnitude," and responded to a $5.4 billion budget gap the way any good socialist would: by asking someone else to pay for it.
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I guess that it should comes as no surprise that the congresswoman who "mistakenly" claimed that she was worth $30 million when she apparently doesn't even tout a net worth of $100,000 couldn't tell the difference between two and eleven.
Mamdani’s plan to delay pension payments
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echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
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Despite a $7.1 billion hole, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pushed back against any serious cutting to his budget and instead wants to delay required payments to city pension funds.
That’s precisely the kind of tactics that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in the ’70s.
At the least, it will saddle future taxpayers with unnecessary costs.
For the moment, the city is on-track to meeting its long-term pension-funding obligations by its 2032 deadline.
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That would be both costly and risky.
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Grand jury indicts ex-FBI boss James Comey
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ederal grand jury in North Carolina on Tuesday indicted former FBI Director James Comey on charges related to his posting of a photo of shells on a beach with the inscription "86-47" that prosecutors alleged was a threat to President Donald Trump.
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It is expected that one of the charges will fall under a statute that prohibits a person from "knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office —
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Sub headline - If Republicans don't act fast, Virginia will turn into Colorado, but it doesn't have to happen that way, although it'll be hard to undo the damage.