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.

Ghazala Hashmi, a Hyderabad-born Democratic State Senator, is running for lieutenant governor on the same ticket as Democratic nominee for governor, Abigail Spanberger, and candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels.

Early voting is already underway in the Virginia governor's race where voters will pick a replacement for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

The race is widely regarded as a bellwether for national politics, with both parties closely monitoring the contest's outcome.

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.