Politics: Virginia GOP Fights Rising Democratic Control

There are no shoo-ins in Virginia politics anymore, according to The Washington Post. We’re living in a swing state where neither Republicans nor Democrats can feel safe come election time.

Five months after the defeat of Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor, reports The Post, Virginia House Speaker William Howell (R-Stafford) fights against the same fate.

Cantor and Howell aren’t the only Virginia Republicans to take a hit; Democrats won all three statewide contests last year against their conservative counterparts. The losses have set Republicans “working furiously to position themselves to compete in the 2016 presidential election,” according to The Post.

Conservative Republican politicians, however, still control much of the state’s GOP leadership. The mixture of rising Democratic and existing Republican control has garnered Virginia a reputation as a swing state.

Virginia’s political world, as said by The Post, has become “topsy-turvy.”

Read more at The Washington Post.

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