Winners have emerged in Tuesday’s primary for the highly contested Virginia congressional district 7, where Democrat retired Army Col. Eugene Vindman will square off against Republican and former Army Green Beret Derrick Anderson in November.
The two candidates will battle it out for retiring Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger's seat, who announced that she wouldn’t be seeking reelection due to a run for governor.
Vindman, whose whistleblowing led to former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, raised over 15 times as much as most of his competitors in the seven-person race, capturing nearly 50% of the votes as of Tuesday night, per the Virginia Department of Elections. Former Del. Elizabeth Guzman followed with 15%, and Del. Brianna Sewell came after with 13.4%
Anderson also out-fundraised his opponents, though not as drastically as Vindman. He received 45.2% of the vote as of Tuesday night, according to the Virginia Department of Elections, with a comfortable near-8% victory over his closest competitor, former Navy SEAL Cameron Hamilton.
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