The winner of the Democratic primary is likely to clinch the congressional seat in the February special election in the heavily blue district.
defeated state Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey in a breakneck campaign that ran just seven days, starting with three major candidates and narrowing to two as Virginia Democratic leaders coalesced behind McClellan and left Morrissey to go his own way.
“Every issue is a women’s issue. There are some that impact women, and Black women in particular, differently. But every issue impacts us in a way that sometimes our voice and our perspective is not heard, because we don’t have a seat at the table,” McClellan had said in the interview, “and it’s really time that Virginia’s congressional delegation have that voice and that perspective.
Morrissey had taken multiple opportunities to accuse Democratic Party leaders of seeking to “anoint” McClellan and block his campaign, including by playing politics with voting locations; none of the eight were in the part of Chesterfield County where Morrissey lives, or other areas where he had support.Still, as he mounted an outsider’s campaign, the senator was clear-eyed about the political realities.
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