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[Sen] Warner’s retirement causes stirrings in Davis’s [VA-11] district
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 04, 2007 07:40pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, September 6, 2007 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Aaron Blake
September 05, 2007
When Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) announced his retirement on Friday, he not only made his own seat a 2008 battleground, he almost surely sent the House GOP’s most tenuous Virginia seat into a state of flux.
Warner’s retirement and Rep. Tom Davis’s (R-Va.) imminent entry into the race to succeed him would force the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to defend a bona fide swing district that Davis has carried with ease for years.
The impending 2007 state general assembly and county elections have things on hold for many potential Republican candidates and at least one Democrat until November. Among them is Davis, who might delay an official decision for state races, which include his wife’s state Senate reelection bid.
In the meantime, Davis’s status in the district means most early jostling will occur behind the scenes, and many believe the former NRCC chairman will try to handpick his successor.
His wife, state Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis (R), has all but pulled her name from consideration, but a bevy of state and local legislators and a former member of Congress have been mentioned as potential replacements for Davis.
On the national scale, it’s another headache for the Republican Party, which already is dealing with retirements and scandal throwing a number of other formerly safe seats into the competitive column. |
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