Can Virginia Be Fixed?

If Republicans don’t act fast,  Virginia will turn into Colorado, but it doesn’t have to happen that way, although it’ll be hard to undo the damage.

Arthur Schaper | April 27, 2026

Election Day 2025 was a broad disaster for Republicans. Everyone could see that.

New Jersey stayed blue, but Virginia went back to being blue at the state level, and the Virginia Democrat party took greater dominance over the Old Dominion’s state legislature.

Nationally, Republicans could not avoid the backlash in voter turnout, since the common pattern is that the party out of power rebounds in the Virginia and New Jersey elections the year after the Presidential election.

However, Democrats didn’t just rebound, they superabounded, especially in Virginia.

It didn’t have to end this way. There was hope that things could have turned around for Republicans to retake the state. After all, they scored a nice upset in 2021, in reaction to President Joe Biden’s first disastrous year in office. Republicans took back the Virginia House of Delegates, and all three major executive offices—Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General—came back to the Republicans.

Hope sprang again in the hearts of the national Republican conference. Republicans could rebuild from the Democrats’ imposed rack and ruin, couldn’t they?! For the previous eight years, Virginia had suffered under two Democrat governors, and then voters watched the General Assembly fall into Democrat hands, first in the state senate, and then the House of Delegates.

From 2019 to 2021, the Democrat party pushed through its wish list of progressive demands, including gun control, LGBT promotion, hand-outs to the public sector unions (although the Democrats could not remove right-to-work from the state constitution), and more taxes and spending. And who can forget the relentless assault on parental rights and the rampant pornography pushed in the public schools?!

Democrats gave a taste of what they wanted........

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