Politics

Among the picks: Sen. Bill Stanley of Franklin County was tapped as Republican whip.

McGuire said in an email to supporters that Good has betrayed former President Donald Trump and helped “Marxist Democrats” to take control of the General Assembly.

His winning margin in the House of Delegates race shrank from 943 votes to 183 votes when provisional ballots and late-arriving mail ballots were counted.

The 7th District member of Congress says she won’t seek reelection in 2024 as she pursues a gubernatorial bid.

The current speaker managed to fend off a challenge by Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott County, for the House GOP’s top job after last week’s Democratic victory.

House Republicans are set to meet Sunday and are likely to elect their leaders then.

Unless late-arriving ballots change the outcome in the Obenshain-Franklin race, Republicans will control all but one seat in Southwest and Southside. This comes as Democrats are about to be in the majority in the legislature again.

Republican Chris Obenshain holds a 943-vote lead but the campaign for Democrat Lily Franklin believes about 2,000 votes have yet to be accounted for.

The Democratic victories in both chambers deny Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin a legislative trifecta that would have allowed him to promptly enact his policy agenda. Tuesday’s results also throw into question Youngkin’s presidential aspirations.

Fariss, who had missed the filing deadline for the GOP nomination, ran as an independent. He was charged earlier this year with two felonies related to an alleged hit-and-run that injured a woman he was seeing romantically.