VA election: Key 2024 bellwether – with a twist

If the GOP wins both houses in Virginia, Gov. Youngkin could be empowered to pass his proposed 15-week abortion ban, and it could foretell the state’s 2024 results. Might the balance of power be affected by the leak of one state house candidate’s online sex stream with her husband? “Plenty of men have weathered sex scandal storms,” says Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Charlotte Rene Woods. “She’s not the first, won’t be the last.”