LEON — It’s for real. Culpeper County resident Tina Freitas is running for the 24th District Virginia Senate seat held for two decades by Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon. Freitas, the 40-year-old wife of GOP state Del. Nick Freitas, announced her candidacy Saturday at rallies in Madison and Augusta counties. Republican radio host John Fredericks, who […]
The Republican Party isn’t immediately positioned to profit from its unexpected good fortune. The GOP’s state affiliate is in shambles, and the Trump campaign, although it has time to ramp up, isn’t entrenched on the ground. That could hinder Republican gains in upcoming elections, even as a Democratic meltdown loosens what appeared to be a […]
It’s a rare moment of optimism for Virginia Republicans at a time when their party is down and out nationally, still hurting from the midterm elections when they lost control of the U.S. House. “They were facing generational political Armageddon,” said John Fredericks, a conservative radio host who served as chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 […]
OPEN MIC FRIDAY: Live from House of Speaker Kirk Cox’s Conference Room in the Virginia General Assembly What a difference a week makes. Written off as a political dead man walking just eight days ago, Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox could very well be Virginia’s next Governor. At the very least, the Virginia Democrat debacle, still unfolding […]