What Went Down During The 2021 Elections

Alex Samuels

Fresh off their big win in Virginia last night, national Republicans are signaling they’ll go on the offensive more in 2022. In a statement early Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of House Republicans, announced that it’s targeting 13 more Democratic-held seats in the U.S. House as Republicans seek to regain their majority in 2022.

New: @NRCC adds 13 new Dem-held seats to its offensive target list after a night of GOP victories in VA

The 70-seat list now includes: GK Butterfield in NC
Frank Mrvan in IN
Jennifer Wexton in VA
Jim Cooper in TN

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— Ally Mutnick (@allymutnick) November 3, 2021

Nathaniel Rakich

10:28 am

Republicans have taken the lead in a 52nd seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, although it seems like this one won’t be called for a while.

We have corrected our results in HD85. Instead of a Democratic hold, Republican Karen Greenhalgh has a 202-vote lead over first-term Democrat Alex Askew. This is in recount territory, a margin of 7/10ths of 1% of votes cast. –> MORE pic.twitter.com/NxQ4RVQnc6
— Virginia Public Access Project (@vpapupdates) November 3, 2021

Micah Cohen

10:23 am

So now that McAuliffe has officially conceded, I guess we can say for sure that Taylor Swift fans (“Swifties”) were not able to save the former Virginia governor. There was so much “the NASCAR dads of 2021” potential, too! 😞

Our own Geoffrey Skelley discussed this not-so-pivotal voting bloc on The Daily Show last night!

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