Jennifer Kiggans

A poll out on Wednesday from Christopher Newport University gives Democrat Elaine Luria a three-point lead on MAGA incumbent Jen Kiggans in the Second District congressional race in Hampton Roads.

The 2026 midterm race is a reprise of the 2022 midterm race in which Kiggans unseated Luria by three points, in a mild upset.

The 2022 cycle was with a Democratic president, and the political science on these things is that midterm congressional elections tend to end up with the party of the incumbent president losing seats in 50/50 districts to the party out of power.

That situation is obviously reversed heading into 2026.

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