{"id":653,"date":"2023-06-25T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T16:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfeggans.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:10:54","slug":"richmond-times-virginias-primaries-set-the-stage-for-this-falls-fierce-political-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfeggans.com\/richmond-times-virginias-primaries-set-the-stage-for-this-falls-fierce-political-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Times: Virginia&#8217;s primaries set the stage for this fall&#8217;s fierce political wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Virginia Beach, freshman Republican Del. Karen Greenhalgh\u2019s reconfigured House District 97 gave Rep. Elaine Luria, D-2nd, a 5 percentage-point edge in 2022, after voting for Youngkin by 2.2 points in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrat Michael Feggans, an Air Force veteran and small-business owner, has so far raised $168,000 to Greenhalgh\u2019s $175,000, but here, as in all these other races, there is likely much more to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenhalgh\u2019s 2021 win saw her spending nearly $1.1 million to defeat Del. Alex Askew, D-Virginia Beach, who spent nearly $2.4 million. In the end, she won 127 more votes than he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article: <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-regional\/government-politics\/virginias-primaries-are-over-now-come-this-falls-political-wars\/article_3814375c-112e-11ee-90cf-a3a74b75d8a8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-regional\/government-politics\/virginias-primaries-are-over-now-come-this-falls-political-wars\/article_3814375c-112e-11ee-90cf-a3a74b75d8a8.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Virginia Beach, freshman Republican Del. Karen Greenhalgh\u2019s reconfigured House District 97 gave Rep. Elaine Luria, D-2nd, a 5 percentage-point edge in 2022, after voting for Youngkin by 2.2 points in 2021. Democrat Michael Feggans, an Air Force veteran and small-business owner, has so far raised $168,000 to Greenhalgh\u2019s $175,000, but here, as in all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,14,13,17,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richmond Times: Virginia&#039;s primaries set the stage for this fall&#039;s fierce political wars - Michael Feggans for Delegate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelfeggans.com\/richmond-times-virginias-primaries-set-the-stage-for-this-falls-fierce-political-wars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Richmond Times: Virginia&#039;s primaries set the stage for this fall&#039;s fierce political wars - Michael Feggans for Delegate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Virginia Beach, freshman Republican Del. 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