Republicans in two Northern Virginia House districts selected their nominees Saturday, one of them a three-term female delegate and the other an African American Marine veteran. Barbara Comstock, a former congressional aide, won her firehouse primary to be the GOP nominee for Virginia’s 10th congressional district. The seat was long held by retiring Republican congressman Frank Wolf, for whom Comstock once worked. Here’s more from the Washington Post:
In contrast to a number of recent Republican losses in Virginia featuring conservative GOP nominees, Comstock’s support from the party establishment and her effort to cast herself as a pragmatist may put the GOP in position to keep the seat held by Wolf for 34 years.
“The election in November will be about my plans to get the economy growing again, creating jobs, and repealing and replacing Obamacare,” Comstock said in a statement. “Congress is in desperate need of problem solvers and I intend to use my common sense principles to better the lives of my constituents when I am elected in November.”
Meanwhile, in another nearby district outside of Washington, Micah Edmond, a black veteran of the Marine Corps and a convert to Judaism, won the GOP nomination in the 8th congressional district. The liberal district is currently held by retiring Democrat Jim Moran. Democrats will choose their nominee in a June 10 primary.
