(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Virginia CD-4 results: AP CALLS IT FOR McCLELLAN!!! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-21 All the above is still gonna be necessary for the general!!! FINAL UPDATE: Dayum, shortest results watch diary ever! Okay, maybe not, but still — AP called the race less than 30 minutes after polls closed. One more pretty numbers update just for the heck of it, and congratulations to our new Representative, Jennifer McClellan! U.S. HOUSE District 4 Candidate Votes Percent JENNIFER MCCLELLAN Democrat RACE NOT CALLED 34,489 68.65% LEON BENJAMIN Republican 15,751 31.35% WRITE-IN 0 0.00% Updated: 8 minutes ago 47% reporting UPDATE: First numbers! Man, I don't think they’re even gonna eke this out till 9 pm… U.S. HOUSE District 4 Candidate Votes Percent JENNIFER MCCLELLAN Democrat RACE NOT CALLED 24,822 68.13% LEON BENJAMIN Republican 11,611 31.87% WRITE-IN 0 0.00% Updated: 5 minutes ago 40% reporting First of all, kudos to LHartsProChoice for their excellent diary yesterday about both Jennifer McClellan (being elected today to replace the departed and deeply-missed Rep. Don McEachin, fingers crossed!) and Terrence Walker, who is running for state house delegate and honestly strikes me as precisely the kind of down to earth, dedicated, young progressive candidate we should be cultivating nationwide. And second, since I just got back from voting and didn’t see a results diary posted yet, I thought I’d go ahead and get one going! I’m feeling pretty confident about this special election — in part because Jennifer’s volunteers have been on the ball! Not only did I get four campaign-printed reminders about the election today, I got two lovely handwritten postcards as well :-) Jennifer and her volunteers are really working to turn out the vote today, and I am fully expecting it will pay off. I didn’t think to check polling in the past few weeks — I will go look for whatever last-minute polling there was, and update in a bit. Whooo-eeee! I didn’t find any polling. I don’t think anyone wasted money on any. What I did find, courtesy of VPAP, was their respective fundraising numbers: Candidate Raised Benjamin, Leon (R) $64,070 McClellan, Jennifer (D) $913,114 FYI, winning this race will make (to-be Rep) McClellan the first Black woman elected to the US House from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Del Rep (fingers crossed!) McClellan has been a staunch activist for bolstering voting rights, women’s rights, social justice across the board and fought for years to get the Medicaid expansion in Virginia. She’s been a damn good representative in every seat she’s held, and I am looking forward in just a few hours to see her become our newest official Representative from Virginia! Hey, Virginia folks, if you’re stopping in, are there any new local Dem candidates in your neck of the woods you’re excited about? Give them a shout out in the comments! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/21/2154276/-Virginia-CD-4-results-watch-my-money-s-on-McClellan Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/