Jad Khalil
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first heard Jun 2025
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She also spent a significant amount of airtime attacking policies accommodating transgender students.
For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil in Richmond, Virginia.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is a former congresswoman and CIA officer.
She was elected to Congress in 2018 and chose not to run for re-election in 2024 in order to run for governor.
Spanberger is on track to win Virginia by a wider margin than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Spanberger's campaign combined a focus on affordability issues with a vow to counter the presidency of President Trump.
Virginia is often seen as a bellwether following the presidential election, which Spanberger acknowledged.
Her opponent, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears, ran on the record of current Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.
She also spent a significant amount of airtime attacking policies accommodating transgender students.
For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil in Richmond, Virginia.
On the web at theschmidt.org.
During the first week of the shutdown, 550 Virginia residents listed a federal agency as their employer when applying for unemployment.
The next week, it was 700.
That's according to a Virginia Employment Commission spokesperson.
These unemployment claims still need to be vetted, but it would account for varying reasons for a government worker to be out of work.
That includes people who accepted a deferred resignation program, commonly known as the fork, and those who were furloughed in the shutdown.
The spokesperson wrote in an email that most federal workers who applied for unemployment benefits had been furloughed.
Virginia has about 150,000 federal employees, according to the Office of Personal Management.
For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil in Richmond.
The National Review first reported on the text messages from 2022.
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