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Friends --

Virginia Republicans have chosen most of their candidates for the general election: a slate of extreme and out-of-touch Trump sycophants -- with the occasional ongoing criminal investigation thrown in. Let us introduce you to the headliners!

First up is backwards Daniel Gade, who opposes equality for LGBTQ people and has said Donald Trump’s leadership on the COVID-19 pandemic “has been great.” He’s going after Mark Warner’s Senate seat, determined to roll back hard-won years of progress in Virginia. He'll be nothing more than a rubber stamp for every nonsensical whim Trump has.

Then you’ve got former Congressman Scott Taylor running in District 2, who was already fired from the job he’s now re-applying for -- but didn’t seem to quite get the message. His claim to fame is his role in an election fraud scheme his campaign perpetrated -- for which two of his former staffers were indicted and for which he’s still under criminal investigation. And then there are his policy positions: He didn’t only vote to take health care away from more than 45,000 of his constituents, he bragged about it!

It’s troubling to think that these candidates are the cream of the crop for the Virginia GOP. They’re the candidates Republicans are pinning all their hopes on in their effort to “win back” Virginia. But what’s even more troubling is that they actually have a chance of doing it!

Friends, if we don’t want Gade and Taylor representing us in Washington, we have to act now. We have to support the campaigns of the great Democrats they’re trying to replace: Senator Mark Warner and Representative Elaine Luria.

Can we count on you to chip in before our end-of-quarter deadline on Tuesday to defeat the GOP and keep strong Democrats fighting for us in Washington?

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