Wittman, Taylor detail views on key issues
Times-Dispatch coverage of 1st Congressional District
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Early voting in the 1st Congressional District leads the state for turnout, as the race between Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, and Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor emerges as a major battle in a national showdown.
Members of Congress from around Chesapeake Bay split on party lines reacting to President Donald Trump’s move to rescind a federal order on cleaning up the Bay.
President Donald Trump held a Virginia call-in rally Thursday evening to encourage Virginians to vote for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor, challenging Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, in November, tells supporters she'll restore Medicaid funding cut by President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
“These have all been analyzed before, but there’s nothing wrong with taking another look,” said Rob Wittman, R-1st, about Trump's demands that the Navy return to some older technology.
U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, says that he, not Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor, has the political support of sheriffs across the 1st Congressional District.
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Turnout this summer in districts Democrats are targeting to flip was significantly higher than in the much-energized summer of 2024.
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Virginians set the contenders for November’s high-stakes races for control of Congress in Tuesday’s primaries, voting to ask Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor to flip a seat Democrats have targeted.
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Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor is seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st.
Late Friday, the Democrats said they will file an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. They asked the Virginia Supreme Court to delay issuing its order nullifying the redistricting.
Special report: Spending on the rise in Virginia politics
Political spending has grown by 90% to more than $312.6 million over the past three election cycles for statewide offices (governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general) and the House of Delegates.
Virginia is one of six states that have no limits on what anyone or any company or organization can give a political candidate.
Spending on lobbying is up 72% over the past three gubernatorial and House election cycles, a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis of state Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commission data found.
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