The Republican Party of Virginia is hosting a straw poll of candidates for the 2014 U.S. Senate nomination. The results will be telling. This will be the first visible organizational test for the campaigns of Ed Gillespie and Shak Hill, who will each work hard…
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U.S. Senate candidate and former RNC and RPV Chairman Ed Gillespie today announced a truly impressive list of endorsements from Virginia grassroots Republican leaders. In a message headlined “Unity,” the Ed Gillespie campaign just released an email touting endorsements of a majority of the…
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Shak Hill’s U.S. Senate campaign this week appears to be trending upward on a message that tries to sow doubt about Ed Gillespie’s apparent openness to an individual health insurance mandate eight years ago. In a blast email to supporters today, the Hill campaign called…
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Ed Gillespie piles up Delegates, while Shak Hill just now announces Staff. In dueling blast emails yesterday, both major candidates for the GOP nod to take on incumbent U.S. Senator Mark Warner heralded major developments for their respective campaigns. Gillespie struck first, with an announcement…
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Last week, each of the two main candidates for the 2014 GOP Senate nomination in Virginia released videos designed to increase positive perceptions of the candidates. The rival campaigns’ videos reveal starkly different approaches, and highlight each candidate’s strengths. Ed Gillespie. First out of the…
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Ed Gillespie’s run for the U.S. Senate must first go through Roanoke at June’s State GOP Convention, where victory will only be possible with significant support from Tea Party-style Republican activists. Here’s how he plans to gain that support. [UPDATED with additional source material] “I…
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The Richmond-Times Dispatch’s often tendentious “Truth-O-Meter” today takes a look at Ed Gillespie’s statements about Mark Warner voting to raise taxes by a trillion dollars while also irresponsibly adding $6 trillion to our national debt. The result? A predictable “True.” Though this is a bit…