2024 United States Senate election in Virginia

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2024 United States Senate election in Virginia
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Nominee Tim Kaine (presumptive) TBD
Party Democratic Republican
Incumbent U.S. senator

Tim Kaine
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The 2024 United States Senate election in Virginia will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Virginia. Incumbent Democratic Senator Tim Kaine is running for re-election to a third term in office. Kaine was re-elected with 57.0% of the vote in 2018. Primary elections will take place on June 18, 2024.[1]

Background[edit]

Virginia is considered to be a moderately blue state at the federal level, with Joe Biden carrying Virginia by about 10 percentage points in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats control both U.S. Senate seats, a majority in its U.S. representative congressional delegation, and both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. However, Republicans flipped all three statewide constitutional offices in the 2021 elections.[2][3][4]

Kaine was first elected in 2012 by 6 points, defeating former U.S. Senator George Allen, and won re-election in 2018 by 16 points.[5][6]

This race is considered to be clearly favoring Kaine as he is popular amongst Virginian voters and typically over-performs other down-ballot candidates.[7]

Democratic primary[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Declared[edit]

Endorsements[edit]

Tim Kaine
U.S representatives
Individuals
Organizations
Labor unions

Fundraising[edit]

Campaign finance reports as of March 31, 2024
Candidate Raised Spent Cash on hand
Tim Kaine (D) $13,030,712 $6,794,892 $8,755,481
Source: Federal Election Commission[23]

Republican primary[edit]

Hung Cao, one of the Republican challengers has been embroiled in multiple controversies. Following the partial collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after being struck by a container ship. In an interview with Larry O'Connor, Cao blamed Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg that "spends more time talking about racial equity with regard to highways and about climate change than about focusing on the fundamentals of keeping our country and our infrastructure working." For why the bridge partially collapsed.[24] In a separate interview with Sean Feucht, Cao claimed that Monterey, California is "a very dark place now, a lot of witchcraft, and the Wiccan community has really taken over there." Following the claim up with the statement "We can't let that happen in Virginia."[25] In February 2023, Cao announce the formation of a PAC called Unleash America. The PAC had the stated goal of "To get Republicans elected during Virginia’s 2023 statehouse contests to support Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s agenda." In April 2024 the The News Leader, a news publication out of Staunton, Virginia, published an article claiming that none of the $103,489 the PAC raised was spent on state house or state senate elections. The raised funds were instead spent on Cao's Senate bid.[26] Cao would respond to the article as a "hit job" in an interview with John Fredericks.[27] Later Cao would continue his defense labeling the publication as a "podunk local newspaper" in a podcast. In a virtual town hall hosted by the Fauquier County Republican Committee. Cao would again attack the publication alleging it was ran by "left-wing hacks." During the same town hall Cao would also say "“but for me to drive six and a half hours down to Abingdon or something like that and to stand there with four other dudes and to have 30 seconds to answer questions, it’s just ridonkulous, it’s just crazy." These comments have caused some uproar as being dismissive to rural portions of the commonwealth.[28] Despite these controversies, Cao was endorsed by former president and presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for this seat[29]

Candidates[edit]

Declared[edit]

Endorsements[edit]

Hung Cao
U.S. Presidents
Individuals
Jonathan Emord
U.S. representatives
Scott Parkinson
U.S. senators
U.S. representatives
Individuals
Organizations
Chuck Smith
State legislators

Fundraising[edit]

Campaign finance reports as of March 31, 2024
Candidate Raised Spent Cash on hand
Hung Cao (R) $2,036,423 $1,557,642 $571,261
Jonathan Emord (R) $808,722[a] $776,557 $32,165
Eddie Garcia (R) $298,802 $281,916 $16,885
Scott Parkinson (R) $841,133 $469,182 $371,950
Chuck Smith (R) $509,949 $485,433 $24,516
Source: Federal Election Commission[23]

Results[edit]

Republican primary results[43]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Hung Cao
Republican Jonathan Emord
Republican Eddie Garcia
Republican Scott Parkinson
Republican Chuck Smith
Total votes 100.00%

General election[edit]

Predictions[edit]

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[44] Solid D November 9, 2023
Elections Daily[45] Likely D May 4, 2023
Inside Elections[46] Solid D November 9, 2023
Sabato's Crystal Ball[47] Safe D November 9, 2023
CNalysis[48] Solid D November 21, 2023

Polling[edit]

Tim Kaine vs. Hung Cao
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[b] 		Margin
of error 		Tim
Kaine (D) 		Hung
Cao (R) 		Other Undecided
Fabrizio Ward (R)/Impact Research (D)[A] April 26–28, 2024 500 (RV) ± 4.4% 48% 36% 1% 16%
Hypothetical polling
Tim Kaine vs. Glenn Youngkin
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[b] 		Margin
of error 		Tim
Kaine (D) 		Glenn
Youngkin (R) 		Other Undecided
Virginia Commonwealth University July 14-25, 2023 804 (A) ± 5.46% 47% 42% 3%[c] 7%
University of Mary Washington September 6–12, 2022 1,000 (A) ± 3.1% 41% 39% 10%[d] 10%

Results[edit]

United States Senate election in Virginia, 2024
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tim Kaine (incumbent)
Republican TBD
Total votes 100.00%

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ $528,167 of this total was self-funded by Emord
  2. ^ a b Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  3. ^ None/Would not vote with 2%, other with 1%
  4. ^ None/Would not vote with 5%, other with 5%
  1. ^ Poll sponsored by Virginians Against Neighborhood Slot Machines

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

Official campaign websites
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