Va. GOP contests grow heated as primary approaches

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Virginia Republicans jockeying to take on Democratic members of Congress are entering the final stretch before the June primary, in an increasingly heated contest that will determine which wing of the GOP carries its party’s standard in November.

Like elsewhere in the United States, Virginia’s Republican primaries have pitted establishment figures against newcomers representing the Tea Party vein of conservatism.

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