LoudounNow LOUDOUN COUNTY’S COMMUNITY-OWNED NEWS SOURCE
[ Vol. 3, No. 51 ]
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[ November 8, 2018 ]
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Jennifer Wexton and her husband, Andrew, react to election results in their Washington Dulles Airport Marriot hotel room Tuesday night. She was the first Democrat to defeat a Republican incumbent in Tuesday's House of Representatives races.
Loudoun Delivers Democrats Landslide Win
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BY RENSS GREENE AND DANIELLE NADLER eesburg Democrat Jennifer Wexton ushered the blue wave into Loudoun County Tuesday, returning the 10th Congressional District to her party after it had been considered a Republican stronghold for almost 40 years. Wexton’s landslide win over second-term Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock was considered the first incumbent knockout of the midterm election, with Republicans losing House seats across the country.
Wexton beat Comstock with 56 percent of the vote to Comstock’s 44 percent. In Loudoun, Wexton led with 60 percent of the vote to 40 percent. Incumbent Senator Tim Kaine (D), the other Congressional seat on the ballot in Loudoun, won his election by an even wider margin, pulling in 57 percent of the vote statewide and 63 percent of the vote in Loudoun. While Kaine and Wexton won handily overall in Loudoun, their races were tighter in the county’s western districts. Comstock even edged out Wexton in the Catoctin District. Stewart and Com-
stock recorded wins in several western Loudoun precincts, including Lovettsville, Waterford, Hillsboro, Round Hill and Purcellville, but those pockets of support did little to push back the Democratic steamroller. The news of Wexton’s victory—one of the first races called Tuesday evening— was greeted by elated screaming and tears at the Democrat’s election night party at the Washington Dulles Airport Marriott. “I really didn’t anticipate that this race would be called so quickly,” Wexton said after coming onstage.
Surrounded by her family and other Democratic elected officials—many of whom had been elected in the past two years—Wexton thanked her staff and the people who pushed to get her into office. She’s represented Loudoun County in the state Senate since 2014. “I’ve been saying since the beginning of this campaign that change is coming to America, and change is coming to VA10, and that change came tonight,” Wexton said. “But that kind of change doesn’t LANDSLIDE >> 9
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