With their own candidates far ahead in early returns, Arlington Democrats spent the first hours of election night in Shirlington watching the rest of the country.
The Associated Press projected Sen. Mark Warner (D) the winner minutes after Virginia polls closed at 7 p.m. It called Rep. Don Beyer’s (D) race shortly after 8 p.m., and the party’s local slate held wide leads.
The three challengers to Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) debated federal intervention in the voting process and other topics at a candidate forum on Tuesday.
Beyer skipped the debate, but Republican Tony Sabio, Libertarian Shelly Arnoldi and independent Tim Sharman accepted the invitation to spread the word about their uphill battles.
The House Judiciary Committee continued a war of words with many of Arlington’s local leaders in a new report slamming attempts to shield undocumented immigrants.
Building on aggressive letters to several local agencies earlier this year and an ongoing public dispute with Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, the committee took aim at policies at the Arlington County Police Department, Arlington County Sheriff’s Office and Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office in a 23-page interim staff report reviewed by ARLnow.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has a message for House leaders: Congress may not get another chance to get ahead of artificial intelligence.
Beyer, who co-chairs the bipartisan Congressional AI Caucus, led nine colleagues from both parties in a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) pressing them to move AI legislation immediately. The group released the letter yesterday (Wednesday) and made its case at a morning press conference on Capitol Hill.
Northern Virginia congressional candidates are facing off on the future of immigration enforcement, a proposed triumphal arch and the role of AI and data centers.
The issues all took center stage in a Sept. 8 candidate forum sponsored by the Arlington County Civic Federation, where Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) faced three challengers.
A Northern Virginia congressional candidate who has faced strong criticism from Jewish leaders recently retweeted an antisemitic rant depicting Adolf Hitler.
Shelly Arnoldi, the Libertarian candidate in Congressional District 8, which includes Arlington, reposted a video last week that begins with Hitler shouting about “Jewish globalization” and alleges a plan to “exterminate the European race.”
A congressional candidate with the backing of the Libertarian Party of Northern Virginia is challenging U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) on the November ballot.
Shelly Arnoldi understands the uphill battle for anyone taking on Beyer in a district that, in recent years, has been a Democratic political fortress. However, she says her effort to unseat him will bring important issues into the local political discussion.
All 11 candidates running for local office in Arlington have agreed to appear at the Arlington County Civic Federation’s annual candidate forum.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Sep. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Hazel Conference Center at VHC Health (Virginia Hospital Center). It will also be livestreamed and archived for later viewing.
An independent candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) on Nov. 3 knows the odds are stacked against him, but thinks he can break through with voters.
“I’m running to win,” Tim Sharman told ARLnow after the Virginia Department of Elections certified his campaign paperwork.
With a contentious primary season behind them, county Democrats have settled on a strategy for the general election.
Without taking local races for granted, the party plans to use its organizational muscle to support Democratic candidates in battleground elections statewide and nationally.
Arlington’s commercial real estate market has many challenges, but one factor working in its favor may be D.C.’s tax code.
Taxes across the Potomac have come into the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers since a wave of progressive politicians swept the Democratic primaries in D.C.
Arlington Democrats and Republicans will each gather tonight (Wednesday) to dissect last night’s primary results and plot road maps to the Nov. 3 general election.
The meetings follow local primaries that played out mostly as expected.
