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Virginia is home to 145,000 government workers who are at risk of job loss.

The state is also the state with the most federal contract awards with more than $106 billion in 2023 .

Virginia ’s off-year elections, a bellwether race, will be the first moment voters will issue their electoral judgment on Washington .

Virginia ’s gubernatorial race is a bellwether that often foreshadows the midterm elections and presidential elections that follow it.

With just one exception in recent times, Virginians have elected a governor who is a member of the political party opposing the president's party.

But with Trump in the White House , Republicans in Virginia are playing defense to keep the governor’” seat.

“If it’s Sears vs. Spanberger you’ve got a lieutenant governor in Virginia government, which has very high approval ratings under Gov. Youngkin , versus a congresswoman in probably the least popular elected body in the history of the planet,” he said. “And if anybody is going to be anti-D.C., it’s not going to be a creature of D.C. And the Democratic nominee is a creature of D.C. ”.