These calls are pretty normal turnout messages, urging voters to forged ballots with out specializing in any specific political subject — resembling abortion, which Virginia Democrats have targeted their marketing campaign on.
“The individuals we elect to the state Senate and Home of Delegates will make selections that have an effect on your every day life,” he says. In the election day call. “It’s time for our voices to be heard.”
Virginia at the moment has a divided legislature, with Democrats holding a slim majority within the state Senate and Republicans holding a small benefit within the state Home of Representatives.
All 140 seats within the Legislative Council are scheduled to be re-elected subsequent Tuesday. Each events consider they’ve viable paths to regulate of each chambers, and there are practically a dozen battleground districts between the 2 chambers.
This yr’s election is the primary after the 10-year redistricting course of.
If Republicans win each chambers, they’ll have unified management of Virginia’s authorities for not less than two years.
GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin was not on the poll this yr, however his crew has invested closely in legislative races. He has been encouraging Republicans to beat Trump’s resistance to early voting and vote earlier than Election Day this yr, and has additionally led the GOP technique of making an attempt to assault Democrats on abortion.
