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%Start Midterm election results: Abigail Spanberger wins <h6>Sections</h6> <h6>Axios Local</h6> <h6>Axios gets you smarter faster with news &amp information that matters </h6> <h6>About</h6> <h6>Subscribe</h6> <h1>Spanberger beats Vega in key U S House victory for Democrats</h1>, author of Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger held onto her seat Tuesday evening, per the Associated Press, beating back a challenge by Yesli Vega, a Trump-endorsed county supervisor who made national headlines for her on pregnancies resulting from rape.
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Spanberger beats Vega in key U S House victory for Democrats

, author of Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger held onto her seat Tuesday evening, per the Associated Press, beating back a challenge by Yesli Vega, a Trump-endorsed county supervisor who made national headlines for her on pregnancies resulting from rape.
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Why it matters: Virginia's 7th Congressional District, which Spanberger has represented since 2...
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Why it matters: Virginia&#x27;s 7th Congressional District, which Spanberger has represented since 2019, is of closely contested races in the country expected to determine control of the House of Representatives.Cook Political Report had rated the district &quot;Lean Democrat&quot; until the week before the election, when it shifted its forecast to &quot;toss-up.&quot; Background: Spanberger, a former CIA officer, pitched herself as a moderate in tune with the district&#x27;s purple politics.Her campaign focused on bipartisan legislation she supported, including funding police and banning stock trading by members of Congress. Meanwhile, in an of television ads, she attacked Vega&#x27;s opposition to abortion and repeatedly highlighted comments Vega made during the primary of becoming pregnant as a result of rape. The intrigue: Spanberger picked up from outgoing Republican Rep.
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Why it matters: Virginia's 7th Congressional District, which Spanberger has represented since 2019, is of closely contested races in the country expected to determine control of the House of Representatives.Cook Political Report had rated the district "Lean Democrat" until the week before the election, when it shifted its forecast to "toss-up." Background: Spanberger, a former CIA officer, pitched herself as a moderate in tune with the district's purple politics.Her campaign focused on bipartisan legislation she supported, including funding police and banning stock trading by members of Congress. Meanwhile, in an of television ads, she attacked Vega's opposition to abortion and repeatedly highlighted comments Vega made during the primary of becoming pregnant as a result of rape. The intrigue: Spanberger picked up from outgoing Republican Rep.
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Liz Cheney, who has become one of the GOP&#x27;s most vocal critics of Trump&#x27;s influence in the party.And Vega, who serves as a Prince William County supervisor and an auxiliary deputy sheriff, downplayed her own endorsement by Trump, from the controversial former president despite previously campaigning with some of his closest allies. On the campaign trail, Vega emphasized her personal story as the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants who would be the first Latina elected to represent Virginia in Congress.Vega contest to face Spanberger, with endorsements from some of the GOP’s outspoken culture warriors, including Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative activist who had to help overturn the 2020 election.Vega also received a boost from Texas Sen.
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Liz Cheney, who has become one of the GOP's most vocal critics of Trump's influence in the party.And Vega, who serves as a Prince William County supervisor and an auxiliary deputy sheriff, downplayed her own endorsement by Trump, from the controversial former president despite previously campaigning with some of his closest allies. On the campaign trail, Vega emphasized her personal story as the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants who would be the first Latina elected to represent Virginia in Congress.Vega contest to face Spanberger, with endorsements from some of the GOP’s outspoken culture warriors, including Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative activist who had to help overturn the 2020 election.Vega also received a boost from Texas Sen.
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