Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (4/27/25)

Youngkin calls on presumptive 2025 VA LG nominee to drop out- he says he's not going anywhere; Trump at just 38%-58% approval in Virginia; Activists hold town halls for absentee Reps. Wittman, McGuire

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• Demanding Presumptive VA GOP 2025 LG Nominee John Reid Drop Out Without Actually Getting Him to Drop Out Makes Glenn Youngkin Look Super Weak Within the Trump/MAGA GOP

• New Polling Shows Trump at Just 38%-58% Approval in Virginia: “Obviously some big headwinds for Virginia GOP”

• Video: Indivisible Charlottesville Activists’ “John McGuire sighting in the wild,” Attempt to Send Him a Certified Letter, etc; Re: Today’s “Where Is John McGuire?” Town Hall

• Video: At Packed “In-Abstentia Town Hall” in Henrico County, Residents Blast Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01), Conclude “The train has left the station. We need to vote him out. We need to find a new representative.”

• Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Rips House Oversight Committee Republicans’ Billionaire Giveaway to Make America...

• DNC War Room: “Brick by brick, Trump is trying to take apart our democracy to fulfill his dream of being a dictator”

• “Major Shakeup” for VA GOP’s 2025 Ticket as Gov. Youngkin Calls on Presumptive LG Nominee Johhn Reid to Withdraw “after GOP researchers found sexually explicit posts online that they believe are connected to Reid”

• Spanberger Calls on Youngkin to Sign Right to Contraception Act Ahead of May 2 Deadline

• Video: VA Democratic Lt. Governor, Attorney General Candidates Speak to the Prince William County Democrats

• Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Trump-Supporting Conservative Republican, Falsely Claims That VA Dem LG Candidates Opposing So-Called “Right-to-Work” Laws Makes Them “left-wing extremists”

• House Oversight Committee Ranking Member, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11), Demands Answers After CDC Whistleblower Exposes Trump Administration Eliminated Agency’s Entire FOIA Office

• DLCC Announces More Virginia House of Delegates Target Races: Kimberly Pope Adams, Elizabeth Guzman, Jessica Anderson, Lily Franklin

• After Three Masked, Unbadged Men Supposedly From Homeland Security “raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation,” VA Sen. Creigh Deeds and Del. Katrina Callsen Try to Find Out What’s Going On

• Video, Highlights: “Red Wine and Blue” Democratic Lt. Governor Candidates’ Forum in Roanoke

• NEW POLLING: Trump Job Approval Plummets As Americans’ Pessimism About The Economy Hits Record High

• NEW: Glenn Youngkin Says Tariffs Are a “Great Opportunity,” Dismissing Harm They Are Causing Virginians

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Warns That If Trump Fires Fed Chair Jay Powell, “we would see a market meltdown that is unprecedented”

• Elected Leaders and VEA President Call on Winsome Earle-Sears to Stand Up for Virginia Students

• Video: “After coming within just 183 votes of flipping the district in 2023,” Lily Franklin Launches Her 2025 Campaign in HD41

• Freedom Virginia Announces 2025 Candidate Endorsements; “Backs Candidates Who Will Advance a Bold Economic Agenda in 2026 So Hardworking Virginians Can Get Ahead”

• With Pat Herrity Dropping Out of the Lt. Gov. Primary, the 2025 VA GOP Ticket Is Now Set, and It’s Quite Possibly the Most Far-Right/Extreme Ever

• Virginia Democratic Members of Congress Overwhelmingly Call for Pete Hegseth to Resign or Be Fired; Virginia Republicans SILENT

• Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) Statement on Near-Assault Saturday at Leesburg Pro-Democracy/Anti-Trump Rally: “While January 6th insurrectionists want to intimidate and bully people into silence, this is not a time to be afraid or cave to intimidation”

• Virginia Democrats Mourn Pope Francis, Say He “modeled humility and compassion,” Was a “tirelessly humble and visionary leader” for the Poor, the Environment, etc.