VA-02, VA-07, VA-10: Virginia congresswomen each raise more than $1 million going into 2020
The three Democratic congresswomen who unseated Republicans in Virginia last year each have more than $1 million in their campaign accounts as they try to win reelection in battleground districts in 2020.
Reps. Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger and Jennifer Wexton each raised more than $500,000 in the three-month period from July to the end of September, according to finance reports filed by Tuesday’s deadline.
The women were part of a blue wave that helped deliver Democrats control of the House and gave their party a majority in the Virginia congressional delegation for the first time.
The campaign finance report is the first since the Virginia congresswomen teamed up with five other Democrats with national security backgrounds last month to announce their support for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Republicans are already lining up to compete for the nomination to challenge Spanberger in a red district in central Virginia as well as Wexton in Northern Virginia. Luria has at least one challenger in her swing district of Hampton Roads, although that number may increase after next month’s state legislative election, when every seat in the Virginia General Assembly is on the ballot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-congresswoman-each-raise-more-than-1-million-going-into-2020/2019/10/16/536a637c-eeb5-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
