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[quote=Anonymous]Democrats Narrow Gap in House After Victory in Virginia Special Election
James Walkinshaw will fill a seat left open by the death of his former boss, Gerald Connolly, and shrink the Republicans’ majority in the chamber.

A Northern Virginia Democrat coasted to victory in a special election on Tuesday for the U.S. House seat left vacant after the death of former Representative Gerald E. Connolly, an expected result that will slightly narrow the party’s deficit in the chamber.

James Walkinshaw, a former chief of staff to Mr. Connolly who won his former boss’s endorsement shortly before he died in May, defeated Stewart Whitson, a Republican lobbyist for a conservative think tank, according to The Associated Press.

Mr. Walkinshaw, 42, who is an elected member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, is the first Democrat to win a House special election since President Trump took office in January. He framed the election as “our first chance to send a Democrat to Congress since Trump took office again.”[/quote]

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