Trump’s influence is looming in Virginia’s main electoral competitions

Tuesday’s main competitions in Swing State Virginia are firearm for a general electoral force test in November which is considered a referendum on the position that President Donald Trump made during his second White House service.

“Trump will play a role in this race,” said Dave Richards, President of Political Science at the University of Lynchburg.

Kyle Kondik, editor -in -chief of non -partisan political disabled Sabato Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, noted: “I think Trump has a lot for the general elections”.

The summit of the ticket already takes place in Virginia, the Republican Lieutenant of Governor WinSome Earle-Sears faced against the former representative Abigail Spanberger, the candidate of the Democratic Party.

It is the primary day in this crucial and competitive state

Former Democrat representative Abigail Spanberger, on the right, presents himself against Lieutenant Républicain Virginia, Governor WinSome Earle-Sears in the state’s race this year. (Getty)

Earle-Sears, 61, was born in the island nation of the Caribbean of Jamaica and immigrated to the United States at the age of 6. She served in the Marines and is a former state legislative that marked history four years ago when she won the election as the first woman governor of Virginia.

Spanberger, 45, was born in New Jersey. The former CIA intelligence official won the elections at Congress in 2018 before guaranteeing a re -election in 2020 and 2022.

This republican woman could become the first woman black governor of the nation

The winner in November will make history as the first woman governor of Virginia in the history of the four -centuries Commonwealth. In addition, if Earle-Sears comes out in the lead, she will become the country’s first black woman to win the election as governor.

The winner will succeed the outgoing republican governor Glenn Youngkin, who is prevented from presenting himself to re -election, because the constitution of Virginia does not allow the governors of the place to seek consecutive conditions.

Virginie Glenn Youngkin’s governor is interviewed by Fox News Digital at the winter meeting of Republican Governors Association on November 20, 2024 in Marco Island, Florida. Youngkin is limited to term and prevented himself from re -election this year. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

The Republicans have already decided on their appointments for the Lieutenant-Governor and Attorney General, so that all the action broken in the races on a state-of-scale level is among the Democrats.

Six Democrats are fighting over in November against the nominee of the Lieutenant-Governor of the GOP, John Reid, a former radio host who, if elected, would be the first openly gay gay-governor of Virginia.

In addition, two Democrats come to challenge the outgoing republican prosecutor Jason Miyares.

Trump has been at the center of the Democratic Party primaries for Lieutenant-Governor and Attorney General in recent weeks. This fueled a strong participation in the Democratic Party competitions during the 45 days of early voting before primary day, while the candidates who undertook to retaliate against the president’s agenda and controversial president.

President Donald Trump, seen at the White House on June 12, 2025, is a key factor in the primaries of Virginia, which are held on June 17. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

“More than 189,000 Virginians voted at the start of the Democratic primaries. 189,000 !!!!” The State Democratic Party praised in an article on social networks on the eve of the primary day.

The Trump Government Department (DOGE) was on mission to cut public spending and reduce federal workforce.

The moves of Doge, which until last month were led by Elon Musk, the richest person in the world – were felt intensively in North Virginia strongly populated by the suburbs of Washington, with its large federal labor.

“Doge’s policies have struck northern Virginia,” said Richards.

Virginia elections draw attention, because she and New Jersey – who held the primaries last week – are the only two states to be confrontation of governors of the year following a presidential election.

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The elections to the Governor of the two states should be competitive and will probably be considered early work in the work that Trump does during his second term.

Republican Jack Ciattarelli celebrates his primary victory for the GOP Governor in New Jersey on June 10, 2025 in Holmdel, New Jersey. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

The results are also considered to be a precursor of the mid-term elections of the following year, when the Republicans defend their majorities of the Chamber and the Senate, and 36 states will hold elections for the Governor.

The Republicans swept the elections to the governor, at Lieutenant-Governor and Attorney General in Virginia four years ago, breaking a 12-year-old sequence against the Democrats.

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While the Republicans have not worn the Commonwealth in a White House competition since 2004, Trump has only lost the state by six points in the presidential election last November, an improvement of four points compared to his defeat in 2020.

However, the Republicans will be confronted with historic opposite winds in November. With one exception – since 1977, the party that has the White House has lost the elections to the governor of Virginia.