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“Last night was a difficult one for Republicans across the Commonwealth and in many states across the country,” Jacob Alderman, Chairman of the Prince William/Manassas Park Republican Committee, stated. “We worked, we hoped, we prayed, and still came up short.”
“Our principles have not changed, our values have not wavered, and our resolve has not weakened,” Alderman added. “We are walking away from this fight standing upright, with the tools to rebuild and strike back.”
“Tuesday night’s election was a bloodbath for Virginia Republicans,” Doug Olivant wrote on X after the party’s sweeping statewide losses. “The party lost all three of the top state offices—Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General—as well as a still undetermined, but double-digit, number of Delegate seats.”
Olivant, a Republican candidate for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District—which includes Prince William, Stafford, Spotsylvania, King George, Caroline, and Fredericksburg—outlined a five-point critique of the GOP’s performance, citing leadership failures, fractured local committees, and weak voter outreach. “Richmond bet it all on an imposed candidate they selected—and lost big,” he wrote, calling for “wholescale reform and housecleaning.”
“Northern Virginia accounted for about 88% of Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s victory margin on Tuesday,” InsideNoVa reported, citing preliminary results from the Virginia Department of Elections. “In the region’s four counties and five cities, Spanberger, the Democrat, won 72.3% of the total vote to just 27.4% for her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears.”
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Voters in the City of Manassas reaffirmed their support for experienced leadership Tuesday, reelecting incumbents to key fiscal offices and returning their sitting delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates.
Despite minor changes and one withdrawn candidate, the results across city and state races pointed to a theme of continuity: familiar names staying in familiar roles.
Fredericksburg voters largely opted for stability Tuesday, returning familiar faces to lead the city’s law enforcement, fiscal, and education offices — while elevating a current school board member to the City Council and welcoming one new face to the dais.
Despite recent controversies surrounding school board spending and transparency, incumbents and well-known local figures prevailed across the ballot, signaling voters’ preference for continuity over change.
Republican lieutenant governor and gubernatorial candidate Winsome Sears will end her statewide campaign tour with a rally at the Salisbury Center in Manassas at 8 p.m. on November 3 — the night before voters head to the polls on Election Day.
Sears will make several other stops across Virginia in the final two weeks of the race, including a meet and greet in Fredericksburg on October 30 and a morning appearance in Gainesville on October 25. These events are part of a multi-city push aimed at energizing voters in the lead-up to Election Day on November 4.
“Mr. Robertson was shot and killed despite no body camera video from any of the five sheriff’s deputies on the scene showing that Mr. Robertson ever pointed a weapon at them or anyone else,” Fredericksburg Free Press reported. “Later, Ferrell could be heard over a police radio, saying, ‘When he opens the door, I’m taking the shot.’ Then he fired the fatal shot, the lawsuit says, and Robertson died.”
Kelly Robertson, an independent candidate for Stafford County’s Hartwood District, and her family filed a $77.4 million wrongful death lawsuit alleging that sheriff’s deputy Dominic Ferrell fatally shot her father, 71-year-old Navy veteran Michael Robertson Sr., during a welfare check in December 2023.
