The 28th District went to incumbent Senator Bryce Reeves, while the 10th District went to incumbent Del. John McGuire.
On Saturday, two Republican state legislators in Virginia, both of whom had the support of Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, secured their party’s nomination for a state Senate seat.
According to an email sent out by Republican caucus manager Jeffrey Ryer, the Republican nomination for the 28th Senate District went to incumbent Sen. Bryce Reeves. John McGuire won the election in the 10th District.
Reeves worked as a police officer and in the military before entering the insurance industry. He is currently employed by an insurance company while serving in the General Assembly. He ran for the Republican nomination for the 7th Congressional District last year but was unsuccessful. He ran for vice governor of the GOP in 2017 and lost miserably. On Saturday, he defeated Mike Allers, a retired cop and teacher who had run as a local candidate in support of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) organization.
The 28th District is overwhelmingly rural and Republican, giving Reeves a significant edge in the November general election. You may find it to the west of Fredericksburg.
McGuire won the 10th District seat, besting three other contenders. He served in the Navy SEALs for ten years and was elected to the House of Delegates in 2018. Since McGuire claimed to have attended the January 6, 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally but denied entering the Capitol Building, Democrats have been angry with him.
Since Republicans make up a majority in the 10th District, both Reeves and McGuire stand to benefit come November. It encompasses a large territory, largely consisting of rural communities, between Richmond and Charlottesville.
The primaries for the remaining state senate elections this year will be held on June 20.
There will be elections for all 140 members in the House of Representatives this coming fall. In the most recent electoral process, unofficial maps were created. It’s the first election cycle using the updated voting districts. The maps were drawn without considering the interests of those already in power. The result has been a larger-than-usual number of nomination disputes and a wave of retirements.