Virginia Democrats are taking steps to redraw their state’s US House districts, hoping to boost the party’s chances in next year’s midterm elections and counter President Donald Trump’s push for more partisan districts in Republican-run states.

Ms Spanberger has embraced her inner wonk on the campaign trail and, if the polls are accurate, it seems to be working. A former narcotics cop and CIA officer, she now leads Winsome Earle-Sears, the state’s Republican lieutenant-governor, by around nine points in polling averages. Her stump speech is about Virginia’s economy.

Virginia Democrats are banking on anger toward President Trump pushing them over the finish line in next month’s off-year elections following a last-minute texting scandal that has threatened to roil the race.

They were faces of the Democratic resistance, a winning piece of the blue wave, when the party swept control of the House of Representatives in 2018 as a fierce reaction to President Donald Trump’s first two years in office.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is facing Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the Virginia governor's race, seen as a critical bellwether.

Fox News contributor Joe Concha on former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defending leaving the Democratic Party and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., defending Jay Jones staying in the Virginia attorney general's race.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is ramping up its spending in the upcoming off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as polls tighten ahead of Election Day next month.

While Virginia and New Jersey have drawn the focus of both parties this year as politically purple states with gubernatorial elections, the DNC announced earlier this year that it will continue to boost all state chapters of the party to support candidates up and down ballots from local to state to national.