The three contenders are seeking the Republican nod in a newly drawn suburban district south of Richmond.
), and endured a rare bipartisan censure in 2021 that cost her the last of her committee assignments.Not a single Republican senator who has weighed in on the race has endorsed her. Yet Chase’s vocal support for former president Donald Trump has endeared her to the GOP base, as has a voting record that has earned her 100 percent ratings from groups supporting gun rights, tax cuts and the abolition of abortion.
“Sometimes you have to challenge leadership,” Chase said in an interview with The Washington Post last week, following a candidate forum at a country club by the Midlothian Business Alliance.In a chamber where Democrats have a 22-18 edge, it’s essential to elect “firebrand Republicans in the name of Trump, in the name of Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Chase said at a gun rights forum in March, referring to two far-right members of Congress from Florida and Georgia.
“As a patriot and someone who loves this country, I will be on the front lines,” she said. “I want to have what they have. Because I’m not going to go with a knife to a gunfight.”“I don’t think there’s a difference between what firearm you’re going to use, except that sometimes it’s actually really nice to have one that shoots all over the place if you don’t know exactly how to shoot the target as well as you would like,” she said with a laugh, describing herself as a bad shot.
In his current race, in a more right-leaning district, Sturtevant has been apologizing for supporting that bill, which failedSeeking to justify his thinking at the time of the vote, Sturtevant reminded the VCDL that the Trump administration had endorsed similar measures.
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