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The Fox News Decision Desk has projected that Democrat Abigail Spanberger will become the next governor of Virginia.

Republicans had hoped to replicate the 2021 upset engineered by outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin, but now face at least two years without control in Richmond, with both legislative chambers remaining in Democratic hands.

After scandal-plagued down-ballot candidate Jay Jones — running for attorney general — Spanberger carefully responded to repeated pressure to call for her fellow Democrat to drop out after he envisioned the murder of former House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah.

Opponent Winsome Earle-Sears, the outgoing lieutenant governor, urged Spanberger to comment on the Jones scandal and clarify her st

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