Charles Coleman
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5d ago
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And let's talk about this notion of the narrow victory.
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Well, yes, it did seem like a narrow victory.
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And given the governor, Governor Spanberger's election there and her margin victory there, many people anticipated that this question of redistricting would be different.
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But when you start to get into the weeds
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What you will see is that county by county, the votes that Kamala Harris got in the state of Virginia pretty much mirror what we saw yesterday in terms of Virginia.
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The difference in terms of why it got so close is that there were Republicans who realized that
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we might have messed up here.
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We might have messed up and we got to get to the polls.
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And so that late surge for Republican voters is actually the thing that made it actually close.
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It wasn't that there were fewer Democrats.
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It wasn't that people were that divided.
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It wasn't that people didn't necessarily know if they wanted it.
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It was that there were a higher number of Republicans who showed up to the ballot box later than expected, trying to save the seats that they eventually lost.
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So when we talk about understanding the closeness of the victory, first of all, it doesn't matter because the victory is the victory.
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Those seats are going to be what they are.
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But the reality is look county by county.
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And that's where the story will be told.
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That's where you can understand why.
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where exactly these votes came from and why it was as close as it was.
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But listen, Virginia, you all understood the assignment.
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