Virginia is turning into a key battleground state into which both parties are pouring massive amounts of resources in an attempt to determine the face of the state and, perhaps, the makeup of Congress headed into the 2026 midterms. Particularly, Democrats have been flooding the airwaves with big-name political figures like former President Barack Obama, while Republicans are on the ground with what amounts to a volunteer army in an attempt to keep Democrats from ruining the state for good.
As background, the 2025 gubernatorial election and state legislature elections were a disaster for Republicans, as the state GOP ran a terrible gubernatorial candidate, Winsome Earle Sears, who dragged down the Republicans generally and led to the Democrats managing to win control of the state legislature, the governor’s office, the Lt. Gov. position, and the state attorney general position.
The Democrats have since used that power and control to push absurd laws through the state legislature, and to try and change the state’s congressional map through gerrymandering ina. way that would push it from the 6-5 Democratic edge it currently has to a 10-1 Democratic majority. The key vote on this redistricting plan is fast approaching, coming on April 21.
For once, the GOP is fighting like the devil to try and stop that catastrophic change from happening, an effort that might be buoyed by Spanberger being utterly awful and quite despised by many in Virginia given the anarchy she has unleashed in the state and the series of radical bills flowing forth from her leftist legislature.
And so, while Democrats are pouring vast sums of money into advertisements featuring figures like former President Obama, the Republicans are telling media outlets like the Daily Caller that they are unleashing a flood of volunteers across the state, along with clever messaging regarding the much-despised leftism of Northern Virginia, to try and combat the Democrat money advantage.
Speaking about it, Jeff Ryer, the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, told the Daily Caller that the Democrats are trying to spend their way out of being unpopular, saying, “[The Democrats] keep upping the amount of money they’re investing, which is why you can’t move without seeing Barack Obama on television.”
Continuing, he added that the GOP approach has been to rely on on-the-ground volunteers to do traditional methods of campaigning, such as door-knocking, to try and push back against the Democrat money advantage. He said, “Our approach, because we knew we had less money, has been much more targeted, and it’s been much more volunteer-driven.”
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Adding to that, he described how the effort consists of just over ten dozen locality-based unit committees that have divided up the state and are flooding their little slices of it with volunteers meant to significantly buoy the GOP turnout in the referendum on redistricting. He said, “The Republican National Committee hired field coordinators, divided up the state into six different regions, put somebody in charge of it, and they have been instrumental in organizing all of our 124 [unit committees].”
Speaking to the Daily Caller, another GOP political figure explained that the main focus has been on getting rural areas invested in the fight against Northern Virginia’s leftist tyranny because of how they will be disenfranchised, saying, “I think that our focus has been on rural areas, who are going to be the most disenfranchised and abused if this passes, and trying to convince these folks that this election, your vote counts.”
He added that the radical nature of the Democratic legislature had helped reignite Republican energy, saying, “What happened in Richmond in January and February, I think, has reignited some passion and some energy with the base, especially when they realize that it is all on the line now.”
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