ARLINGTON, Va. — Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam are running for Virginia governor in a race seen as a test of President Donald’s Trump’s agenda, which Gillespie has adopted. Trump tweeted often on Tuesday in support of Gillespie.
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“I always vote, rain or shine,” Sally Carson said Tuesday at an Arlington, Virginia, polling station as the rain picked up. Carson has lived in Virginia for the last 25 years and said that having a Democratic governor is important to her because “Republicans aren’t getting anything done.”
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Susie and Lou Miller were outside Alexandria City Hall on Tuesday to urge voters to support Republican Ed Gillespie for governor.
Susie said immigration is the biggest issue this election because it affects so many other areas such as education.
“I’m very disappointed in our school system. … Fairfax County used to be the top in the country, for years and years.That has come down because of the amount of illegal immigration,” she said. “And you will find that most people, people who can afford to send their kid to private school, do. And that’s the reason why — because our school system isn’t as good. ”
FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. — Gunsmith and firearms instructor Andy Rusk of Fauquier County, Virginia, said he planned to vote for Republican Ed Gillespie to become the state’s next governor.
Rusk said Gillespie is a ,stronger defender of gun rights than Democrat Ralph Northam. Rusk worried that gun control legislation would threaten t his career.
FALLS CITY, Va. – George Mason University graduate students Christopher McCloud, 28, voted in Falls City, Virginia, on Tuesday and was proud that he had never missed casting a ballot in an election. Both local education legislation and the larger political narrative surrounding Virginia’s election brought him out to vote Tuesday, the public policy major said. McCloud hopes Northam will be able to help improve racial and social issues in Virginia.
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