{"id":1855868,"date":"2023-02-21T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1855868"},"modified":"2023-02-21T21:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:04:45","slug":"democrat-wins-house-special-election-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-wins-house-special-election-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Wins House Special Election in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-wins-house-special-election-in-virginia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1855868&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Democrat Jennifer McClellan is expected to win the U.S. House Special Election in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a> for the vacant seat after the death of Rep. Donald McEachin, (D-VA), last year.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple news outlets conducted the call Tuesday evening, just one hour after the polls closed. 86% of respondents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/02\/21\/us\/elections\/results-virginia-us-house-district-4-special.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Precincts reporting<\/a>McClellan won with 73% of the vote, compared to Republican Leon Benjamin who received 27%.<\/p>\n<p>McClellan&#8217;s victory parade is historic, as she is set to be the first woman of color to represent Virginia in Congress.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2705 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennMcClellanVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JennMcClellanVA<\/a> has won her race for the U.S. Congress in VA-04!<\/p>\n<p>She is the first Black congresswoman to be elected in the Commonwealth of Virginia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hiZrjY83Je\">pic.twitter.com\/hiZrjY83Je<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Democrats (@vademocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vademocrats\/status\/1628189456254599170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the day that would have been John Lewis&#8217; 83rd birthday, Virginia voters elected the first black woman to Congress. Congratulations to my new colleague, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitchieTorres\/status\/1628196838355369984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted Ritchie Torres<\/a> (D-NY), referring to the late civil rights leader and U.S. congressman John Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>McClellan is a corporate lawyer who has served as a member of the Virginia state legislature since 2006. She ran for governor in 2021, but got <a href=\"https:\/\/results.elections.virginia.gov\/vaelections\/2021%20June%20Democratic%20Primary\/Site\/Statewide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third place in the Democratic primary<\/a>. Terry McAuliffe, a former governor, won that primary but lost the general election to Glenn Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>McEachin, a U.S. congressman since 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-representative-donald-mceachin-dies-at-61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died at the age of 61<\/a> in November from complications stemming from his years-long battle with cancer weeks after winning re-election.<\/p>\n<p>In this year&#8217;s race to win the Richmond-area district, pre-special election reports showed McClellan out-raised and outspent Benjamin, a Navy veteran and pastor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/21\/politics\/virginia-special-congressional-election\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McClellan boasts a &#8220;record of results, championing the passage of major progressive laws and fighting on behalf of her constituents in greater Richmond for the past 17 years,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennifermcclellan.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to her website<\/a>. In addition to listing McClellan&#8217;s legislative accomplishments, the website says the Democrat has worked with a &#8220;commitment for progress, equity, and justice in the Commonwealth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The race will not change the power dynamic in the House, where Republicans hold a slim majority. Democrats control the Senate and the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Jennifer McClellan is projected to win the U.S. House special election in Virginia for the seat left open after the death of Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) last year. Multiple news outlets made the call Tuesday evening less than an hour after the polls closed. With 86% of precincts reporting, McClellan led with about 73% &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1855871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4912,3728,3653,7262,5468,5745],"class_list":["post-1855868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-democrat","tag-election","tag-house","tag-special","tag-virginia","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}