Virginia congressional race in closely watched swing district tied between Luria, Kiggans: poll

The Democratic and Republican candidates in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, one of the most competitive House races in the country, are in a dead heat, according to a Christopher Newport University Wason Center survey released Friday.

Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria and her Republican opponent State Sen. Jen Kiggans are tied 45% to 45% among likely voters in the district, according to the Wason Center poll

Approximately 8% of those surveyed in Virginia are undecided. The poll of 820 likely voters in the district has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points

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The Virginia 2nd Congressional Race has garnered notable interest with its unique pair of candidates — both Luria and Kiggans are military veterans.

Luria – who served two decades in the Navy, spending most of her time assigned to ships as she rose to the rank of commander – defeated GOP incumbent Rep. Scott Taylor in 2018, as part of the blue wave that led Democrats back to the House majority after eight years in the minority. 

And Luria, a moderate who’s known as a defense hawk, won re-election in 2020 in a rematch with Taylor.

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Kiggans, who served as a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, has said she’s "ready to serve" again, in Congress. She won the Republican primary in Virginia's 2nd Congressional district on June 21, securing her spot in the November midterms.

The Virginia Beach-anchored district currently includes parts of Norfolk and Hampton, as well as Williamsburg, Poquoson, and the state’s Eastern Shore. 

But redistricting has done Luria no favors as she seeks a third term in the House, taking away everything north of the James River while adding parts of Chesapeake, Suffolk and the Isle of Wright. 

Political experts say the moves favor Republicans.

Fox News's Jessica Chasmar, Paul Steinhauser, and Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.

Newsmax Drops Journalist Lara Logan Over Immigration Remarks

Newsmax on Thursday dropped Lara Logan over comments the she made about immigration while appearing on the network with host Eric Bolling.

Logan claimed, without producing any evidence, that she was made privy to a U.N. plan to “infiltrate 100 million illegal immigrants” into the U.S. and “dilute what they called the pool of patriots.”

“Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan and her views do not reflect our network,” the network said in a statement to the Daily Beast on Thursday. “We have no plans to interview her again.”

During the Wednesday segment with Bolling, Logan claimed, “I spoke to a man who was actually holding the documents in his hand. He told me about it, right? He said he infiltrated the global cabal at the U.N. level, right? And one of the things that he was able to tell me about, from his own personal experience, what he witnessed himself was these documents that showed the time there is a plan, and this was several years ago.”

“The plan was to infiltrate 100 million illegal immigrants, and at that point, there were already 40 million, and these people would dilute what they called the pool of patriots,” she continued. “Their words, right? And they would not be taught that America is a great country and trained to sing the national anthem with pride, and so on and so on. They would be taught all the negative things that we’re told about the U.S. today that our own children are taught.”

“I am a firm and solid and immovable believer in God,” the 51-year-old said. “And I believe that God wins. I believe that good is greater than evil, and I believe that the fallen angel otherwise known as Satan doesn’t get to prevail in this world.”

“God believes in sovereignty, a national identity, of the sanctity of family and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time,” Logan continued. “And he knows that the open border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these are people who are stooges and his servants. And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us. You’ve all known Yuval Noah Harari and all the rest of them at the World Economic Forum. You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches, and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not gonna win. They’re not going to win.”

Earlier this year, Logan was reportedly pushed out at Fox News over comments she made comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

One month later, the Emmy Award-winning journalist announced she would be leaving Big Tech platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, because she can no longer “in good conscience contribute to platforms who glorify & enrich themselves at the expense of children who they knowingly exploit.”

“I am leaving Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc. I cannot in good conscience contribute to platforms who glorify & enrich themselves at the expense of children who they knowingly exploit,” she wrote. “Discovering recently that animals are sexually abused/exploited along [with] children was a shock.”

“I had no idea such a depraved ideology was being pushed on this scale or the insidious ways the worst of humanity is normalized, promoted & quietly glorified by the same platforms who censor free speech from truckers, doctors, naturalists, vaccine injured & so on,” Logan added. “It’s wrong.”

In recent years, Big Tech companies like those highlighted by Logan have taken heat over allegedly platforming explicit content of children and being a hotbed for sex trafficking.

Logan, though, has returned to Twitter, and has posted as recently as October 20.

Related: Award-Winning Journalist Lara Logan Quits Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: ‘Cannot’ Stay ‘In Good Conscience’

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