Virginia’s incumbent attorney general hopes for a third term to build on the “progressive powerhouse” he says he’s created.
some immigrants brought here illegally as children could receive in-state college tuition. That infuriated Republicans because the move came after the state legislature declined to enact the idea.by his Republican predecessor that would have shuttered most of the abortion clinics in the state by forcing them to comply with onerous building standards meant for hospitals.against the Trump Administration’s controversial ban on travelers from a handful of majority Muslim nations.
“Once you go through his record over the first four years you’ll see he wasn’t sheepish,” Morgan said. “A lot of politicians like to stick their fingers up to the wind before they get involved in something. That’s not Mark.” Herring criticized Miyares for not supporting the recent removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond. Miyares said he supported keeping the statue up, while also adding statues of prominent minority Virginians, such as Virginia’s first Black governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder.Herring has also hit Miyares over his antiabortion stances and talked up his own defenses of Planned Parenthood and challenges to restrictive abortion laws around the country.
Herring first entered politics in 1999, when he won a spot on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. He then served three terms in the Virginia Senate, before squeaking by State Sen. Mark Obenshain to win his first term as Attorney General.Herring had initially announced in 2018 he would be running for governor during this election cycle, but that was before he was tripped up by a blackface scandal and former governor Terry McAuliffe announced he would again seek the state’s top office.
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