With retirements happening across Northern Virginia, Democrats are scrambling to announce their intentions to run for open seats in the General Assembly this year.
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A shuffling of sorts
With retirements happening across Northern Virginia, Democrats are scrambling to announce their intentions to run for open seats in the General Assembly this year.
Del. Ibraheem Samirah was originally planning on running for HD-26 after the incumbent, Del. Suhas Subramanyam (D), announced his intentions to run for a Loudoun state Senate seat in place of retiring Sen. John Bell (D).
Then, on Saturday, Kannan Srinivasan announced that he would no longer be running in HD-27 against Atoosa Reaser and would instead run in HD-26 with the support of several establishment Democrats. Rep. Jennifer Wexton, state Sens. Jennifer Boysko, Barbara Favola, and Ghazala Hashmi are included on his endorsement list.
This set up a primary between Srinivasan and Samirah — but only briefly.
