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Woodbridge District Supervisor Margaret Franklin is running for Congress.

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The average price of a dozen eggs in the U.S. was $4.25 in 2022, up from $1.54 in 2019.

And it’s only expected to rise, making it more difficult for residents to feed their families. Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega says she’s received letters, including one from the father of a family of 10, who goes through 20 eggs a day to feed his family, asking her if something can be done to ease the family’s egg woes.


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The congressional candidates made their closing arguments in the 2022 campaign at events across the region on Monday, November 7, 2022.

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President Donald Trump gave an unsolicited endorsement to Yesli Vega, prompting now a response from her campaign.

Trump urged voters to elect Vega, a Republican from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, to Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Trump posted the endorsement onto his Truth social media platform and called her a “strong Republican voice against violent crime and all other things destroying our nation. He also wrote, “Vega is a warrior for America First,” and tied to Spanberger to voting to support President Biden’s agenda 100% of the time, despite campaigning as a moderate.


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Corey Stewart, a household name in Prince William County politics for 15 years, is pushing a new T.V. ad attacking Democrat Abigail Spanberger. 

It’s the first time Stewart has made a public political statement after he stepped down from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors on December 31, 2019.


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Gov. Glenn Youngkin will hold a rally for Yesli Vega, the Republican seeking Virginia’s 7th District Congressional seat, at the Stafford County Courthouse.

The event begins at 12:30 at the courthouse, 1300 Courthouse Road, and is organized by the governor’s Spirit of Virginia PAC. The rally will be the second for Vega this week in which the governor has participated and the third overall since October 17.


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Yesli Vega rode into her campaign, standing atop a motorcoach, waiving at a crowd of more than 400 people gathered near Dumfries to see her.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R)  stood next to the 7th-District Congressional candidate as the bus pulled into Montclair Tabernacle Church, at 16120 Dumfries Road. It was Vega’s second rally with high-profile politicians in Prince William County in the past three days.


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