Election 2019: Two years ago, their race ended in a tie. Now they're back for a rematch.
NEWPORT NEWS — When cable news networks last focused on her, Shelly Simonds was America’s best-known political loser, her razor-thin defeat in a Virginia General Assembly race turning her into a human billboard for an age-old maxim.
Every. Vote. Counts.
In 2017, Simonds (D) and incumbent Republican David E. Yancey finished in a tie, a deadlock broken when an election official picked Yancey’s name from a ceramic bowl in a spectacle broadcast live on national television.
Now Simonds is back for a rematch, far more eager to dwell on the present than the past. “Nobody wants to relive 2017, especially me,” she insisted over lunch at a restaurant near her campaign headquarters. “We need to move on.”
With Republicans holding a 51-48 majority in the House of Delegates, with one vacancy, the stakes are high in the race. In the Senate, the margin is even more slim, with Republicans clinging to power by a margin of 20 to 19, with another vacant seat. If Democrats are able to flip enough seats on Nov. 5, the party will have control over the executive and legislative branches for the first time in a generation.
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