Democrat Jennifer Wexton defeats GOP's Barbara Comstock
Democrat Jennifer Wexton is projected to defeat two-term Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) in one of the most closely watched House races in the country.
Comstock had been one of the Democrats’ top targets of the 2018 cycle. Hillary Clinton prevailed over President Trump by 10 percentage points in 2016 in Virginia's 10th District, an affluent, well-educated suburb just outside of Washington, D.C.
Wexton, a state senator and former prosecutor, had been leading Comstock in the polls in recent weeks, leading House Majority PAC, the largest outside group backing Democrats, to cancel an ad buy amid growing confidence they would flip the seat.
The daughter of economists who worked for the federal government, Wexton, 50, lost her bid to become Loudoun County’s top prosecutor in 2011, but won a state senate seat in 2014.
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