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Virginia’s former first lady to run for Congress in newly drawn district
Dorothy McAuliffe plans to run in a newly drawn Virginia 7th District designed to favor Democrats if voters approve the map on April 21, joining multiple Democratic candidates.
- Dorothy McAuliffe said Wednesday she will run for Congress in a newly drawn congressional district; she is a former Virginia first lady and U.S. State Department special representative.
- Drawing on her record, McAuliffe worked on childhood nutrition programs and helped address a backlog of untested rape kits in Virginia, and in 2017 she weighed a congressional bid but did not run.
- Last month, four-term Virginia Del. Dan Helmer, J.P. Cooney, and Guzman launched campaigns in the district, which is contingent on redistricting plans.
- Legal uncertainty persists because candidates may change plans if the redistricting effort is not approved or is thrown out by the Virginia Supreme Court, and if approved, McAuliffe would run in the 7th District.
- Virginia voters will decide on April 21 whether to adopt a new map creating four Democrat-leaning districts, with most voters in the new 7th living just outside Washington, D.C.
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Dorothy McAuliffe is running for Congress
by Brandon Jarvis Dorothy McAuliffe announced her congressional campaign in the potentially new Seventh Congressional District. McAuliffe is a former State Department official, first lady of Virginia and attorney. “I’m a proud mom of five and a new grandmother, and right now, I’m worried about the future of all our children,” she said in her launch statement. “Virginians are working harder than ever, but the middle class is still out of reach fo…
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