>>AS WELL AS OUR LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS. WE ALSO HAVE EXPERT ANALYSIS ON
WHAT YOUR PHONE TO MEAN FOR THE
COMMONWEALTH
MOVING FORWARD.
>>HIGHER THAN AVERAGE VOTER
TURNOUT ACROSS
VIRGINIA IS WHAT IS SURE TO GO
DOWN ON WHAT IS SURE TO GO DOWN
AS AN
HISTORIC ELECTION.
>>DEMOCRATS POURED A RECORD
BREAKING AMOUNT OF MONEY INTO
THESE RACES AND IT APPEARS TO
HAVE PAID OFF.
IT’S IMPORTANT TO AND
SOUTHWEST, VIRGINIA HAVE.
ACT ON THIS MAJOR SHIFT.
WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE OF THE
ELECTION TONIGHT, 10 NEWS
REPORTER COLTER AND STATUS
CHANGE WIRE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING
2 IMPORTANT
LOCAL RACES.
>>LET’S BEGIN FIRST TONIGHT
WITH THE BIG STORY OF THE
EVENING.
WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT RIGHT
HERE IS THE MAP
OF THE VIRGINIA SENATE
PRIOR TO TONIGHT’S RACE AND
THEN AFTER THE RESULTS CAME IN
THE RED
REPRESENTS REPUBLICANS AND THE
BLUE SHOWS WHO THE DEMOCRAT C.
>>LANDSCAPE IS SHAPING UP IN THE STATE HOUSE NOT ALL RACES ARE CALLED BUT ENOUGH TO SWING
THE BALANCE OF POWER.
THIS IS THE 3RD ELECTION IN A
ROW THAT VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS
MADE SIGNIFICANT GAINS.
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOT HELD
BOTH THE
SENATE HOW AND THE GOVERNOR’S
MANSION IN 26 YEARS.
>>SHORTLY AFTER THE NEWS
BROKE GOVERNOR, RALPH NORTHAM
RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING
QUOTE I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING
WITH OUR NEW
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY TO MAKE
THESE PRIORITIES,
A REALITY TOGETHER WE WILL
BUILD A STRONGER MORE INCLUSIVE
AND MORE JUST COMMONWEALTH.
SO DOCTOR
SO DOCTOR LYNCH, THE DEMOCRATS WILL WANT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES NOW THEY
HAVE CONTROL WHAT DO YOU THINK
THEY’LL WANT TO ADDRESS FIRST.
>>IT’S HARD TO SAY I THINK THEY
WILL HAVE A VERY DETAILED
AGENDA AS A AS YOU POINTED OUT
THEY’VE BEEN GETTING CLOSER AND
CLOSER AND THE SESSION IS NOT THAT LONG SO I THINK BILL PROBABLY TO TRY TO
DO A LOT OF THINGS THAT ONCE I
THINK WE’LL SEE CHANGES
AND ABORTION REGULATION I THINK
WE’LL SEE SOME ATTEMPT TO
GUN CONTROL.
MAY BE A AN ATTEMPT TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT RIGHT TO WORK
MAY BE ABOLISHED RIGHT
TO WORK.
THEY’LL BE VERY SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES.
BUT I’M NOT SURE WHICH ONE WILL
COME FIRST, I THINK WILL BE AN
AVALANCHE IN WILL SEE WHAT
ROLLS DOWN THE
HILL FASTEST.
>>ALL RIGHT AND OF COURSE WITH
A SIMPLE MAJORITY IN THE STATE
HOUSE THAT’S ALL THEY NEED IS
NO FILIBUSTERS OR ANYTHING LIKE
THAT THAT’S RIGHT.
WE’LL HAVE THE POWER TO DO WHAT
THEY WANT
A WILL AND WE’LL HAVE MORE WITH
DOCTOR LYNCH COMING UP A LITTLE
BIT LATER ON IN THIS NEWSCAST
TONIGHT.
NOW SOON AS THE POLLS CLOSED.
IT TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR AND A
HALF TO START GETTING ACCURATE
RESULTS OF THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
AT HOME OR MAYBE ON
THE INTERNET.
VIRGINIA STATE ELECTION BOARD
WEBSITE CRASHED OFFICIALS SAY
THIS WAS NOT A SECURITY BREACH
IS NOW UP
AND RUNNING AND ALLOWING US TO
GIVE YOU THE MOST ACCURATE
RESULTS.
>>PIC ON TONIGHT’S BALLOT.
REAL VICTORY VOTERS.
THESE GAMING EMPORIUM TO EXPAND IN SOUTHWEST, VIRGINIA. 10 NEWS REPORTER HOLDER INSTEAD
IS LIVE ABOUT SIDE DANVILLE
CITY HALL
IN COLTER YOU ARE WITH SOME
CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AS THAT
NEWS CAME INTO HOW DID THEY
REACT.
>>PRETTY WHEN I GOT THERE ONLY THE VOTES CAST TODAY WERE BEING REPORTED
ABSENTEE VOTING WAS NOT SO I
THINK EVERYONE WAS A
LITTLE NERVOUS.
EVEN THOUGH THE YESES WERE
AHEAD OF THE NOSE IN THE VOTES
CAST TODAY
WHEN THE ABSENTEE VOTING WAS
FINALLY REPORTED THERE WERE
A FEW MILD CHEERS, SPECIFICALLY
5,083 PEOPLE VOTED
FOR ROSIE’S 4,717 PEOPLE
VOTED
AGAINST GABLES VICE MAYOR
BELIEVES THIS IS AN IMPORTANT
STEP TOWARD POTENTIALLY GETTING
A CASINO DAVE OF COURSE
AS WE REPORTED IS ONE OF 3
CITIES IN WHICH THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS CONSIDERING
ALLOWING A CASINO TO
BE BUILT.
IT IS EXPECTED TO CREATE
THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND HAVE AN
ECONOMIC IMPACT IN
THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS A SPOKESPERSON FOR
ROSIE’S PARENT COMPANY SAYS THE
COMPANY IS COMMITTED TO WORKING
WITH THE COMMUNITY.
>>WE’RE EXCITED TO SEE THAT
PEOPLE’S VOICES WERE HEARD.
THEY VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS
WHICH MEANS WE THEY WANT TO SEE
MORE OF THIS TYPE
OF ENTERTAINMENT.
I THINK THERE ARE EXCITED ABOUT
THE THINGS WE’VE BEEN DOING THE
LAST FEW YEARS.
>>SO WHERE IS ROSIE’S GOING TO GO THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW,
I’M TOLD
NO DECISION HAS BEEN
MAKE IT LIVE IN DIFFICULT
ARRANGED AT 10 NEWS WORKING FOR
YOU.
>>A DECISION ON ITS SALES TAX SHOULD BE RAISED OFF THE COST OF A NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING.
>>WELL REFERENDUM MY HAS NOT
YET BEEN CALLED BUT SO FAR
LOOKS LIKE THE YESES
ARE LEADING AND THERE WILL BE
AN INCREASE IN THE
SALES TAX.
THERE ARE ALSO A NUMBER OF
STATE REPRESENTATIVE RACES THAT
WE’VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE
ON TONIGHT.
>>FIRST UP IS DISTRICT 7
REPUBLICAN AT NICK RUSSIA HAS
BEEN REELECTED.
HE REPRESENTS PARTS OF FLOYD
MONTGOMERY AND
PULASKI COUNTIES IN DISTRICT 8
REPUBLICAN JOE MCNAMARA KEEPS
HIS SEAT.
HE REPRESENT PARTS OF ROANOKE
SALEM MONTGOMERY AND CRAIG
COUNTY.
THE NEW RIVER VALLEY SISTER 12
HAS REELECTED CHRIS HURST.
THE DEMOCRAT A DEFEATED FORCE
HEIGHT.
>>AND FOR THE HOUSE OF
DELEGATES DISTRICT 14 WHICH
IS IN SOUTH SIDE DW DANNY
MARSHALL HAS BEEN REELECTED
DEFEATING
ERIC STAMPS AND DISTRICT 22
WHICH COVERS BEDFORD AND
LYNCHBURG CAMPBELL AND FRANKLIN
COUNTIES, REPUBLICAN KATHY
BYRON HAS BEEN RE ELECTED TO
THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
SHE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE THERE
SINCE
1998.
SINCE 1998. AND THE DISTRICT 24 RONNIE
CAMPBELL’S BEEN REELECTED
GETTING 66% OF
THE VOTE.
HE REPRESENTS PARTS OF THEM ARE
STRUCK US TO BATH ROCKBRIDGE
COUNTIES AS WELL AS BUENA VISTA
AND LOOKS
A LEXINGTON.
>>WE NOW THE SEVERAL SHERIFFS
ELECTIONS IN COUNTIES ACROSS
SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA.
>>NOW WE’VE GOT A CLOSE
EYE ON THE BEDFORD COUNTY ALL
DAY LONG AND THROUGHOUT THE
ELECTION SEASON AND TONIGHT,
REPUBLICAN MIKE MILLER WAS
VOTED IN HE’S THE FIRST NEW
SHERIFF SINCE
1996.
OUR SHAYNE DWYER WAS THERE
TONIGHT AS HE MADE HIS
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
>>THE
CELEBRATORY NIGHT HERE FOR
REPUBLICAN SUPPORTERS IN
BEDFORD COUNTY AS ALL 3 OF
THEIR PEOPLE CLAIMING VICTORIES
IN
TODAY’S ELECTION WHEN THE
WALKER RECLAIMING OF DELEGATES
SEAT KATHY BYRON ALSO PLANNING
A SEAT AT THE STATE LEVEL.
BUT THE BIG CELEBRATION WAS FOR
SHERIFF
NOW ELECT MIKE MILLER AND HIS
CELEBRATION HERE WITH FAMILY
AND FRIENDS MILLER WITH A
SIZABLE VICTORY OVER HIS 2
COMPETITORS ALL 3 MEN
CURRENT EMPLOYEES OF THE
SHERIFF’S OFFICE NOW MILLER DID
EARNED THE BACKING OF
AND SHARE.
MIKE BROWN WHO IS RETIRING
AFTER MORE THAN 2 DECADES
IN HIS POSITION AS THE TOP COP
IN BEDFORD COUNTY.
MILLER SAYS THAT KIND OF
ENDORSEMENT WAS A HUGE PART OF
HIS VICTORY AND SAID HE IS
INCREDIBLY THANKFUL FOR ALL THE
SUPPORT.
THE SHERIFF HAS BEEN ABLE TO
OFFER IT.
>>A LOT OF THINGS WERE GOING TO
STAY THE SAME STUDY, THE COURSE
SHERIFF BROWN HAS DONE
ALSO JOB.
IT’S WHAT HE’S DONE AND THERE
WILL BE SOME TWEAKS THAT WE
WILL MAKE OUR SELF
OF COURSE BUT OTHER THAN THAT
CITIZENS NEED
TO BE UNDERSTAND THAT WE’RE
SAFE EVERYTHING’S OK AND WE’RE
GOING TO STAY THE COURSE
THROUGH THIS.
>>MILLER SAYS HIS TOP PRIORITY
FOR HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE IS
GETTING.
ADDING MORE DEPUTIES TO
THE OFFICE AND
BEING ABLE TO CREATE A NEW
COMMUNITY WATCH PROGRAM THAT
WOULD DRILL DOWN TO THE
NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL THE
COUNTY WHOSE COMPETITORS, TIM
HAYDEN IN JAMES KIRKLAND
CONTACTED MILLER TO OFFER
THEIR CONCESSION.
WE DID REACH OUT TO COMMENT ON
THAT, BUT WE DID HEAR BACK FROM
JAMES KIRKLAND THEY SAID HE
WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF
HIS SUPPORTERS AND CONGRATULATE
NOWSHERA COLLECT MILLER ON HIS
WIN IN BEDFORD COUNTY SHAYNE
DWYER 10 NEWS WORKING FOR YOU.
>>AND A FEW OTHER SHERIFFS RACES WE’RE WATCHING TONIGHT INCLUDED
ROANOKE COUNTY.
>>ERIC ORANGE, THE INCUMBENT
BEAT RICHARD CROZIER TO KEEP
HIS PLACE AS SHERIFF HE’S HELD
THAT OFFICE SINCE
2016.
IN BOTETOURT COUNTY MATT WARD
WON WITH 82% OF THE VOTE OVER
DANIEL CROWSON
WILLIAMS STOLE HE IS THE
COUNTY’S FIRST NEW SHERIFF
SINCE THE YEAR
2000.
>>CAMPBELL COUNTY ALSO HAS A
NEW SHERIFF WITH CLARK, ONE
WITH 44% OF
THE VOTE.
HE DEFEATED TERRY COOK AND
DWAYNE A.
IN FRANKLIN COUNTY BILL, OVERTON IT WILL REMAIN SHARE A 56% OF VOTERS
BACKED HIM OVER
RILEY HODGES AND FINALLY
IN HENRY COUNTY LANE PERRY WHO
HAS BEEN SHERIFF SINCE 2006, OR
MAIN THE COUNTY’S TOP.
>>AND WE’RE GETTING A LOOK NOW AT THE STATE SENATE RACES FIRST OFF WE’RE LOOKING AT DISTRICT
5TH.
THIS DISTRICT
COVERS DANVILLE CAMPBELL COUNTY
HALIFAX PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY REPUBLICAN FRANK GRUFF HOLDS ON TO THAT SEAT.
FOR DISTRICT 19 WHICH COVERS
PARTS OF ROANOKE SALEM AND THE
NEW RIVER VALLEY.
DAVID SOUTER LINE HAS BEEN
REELECTED.
PUBLIC
REELECTED. PUBLIC AND BILL STANLEY HOLD ON TO
DISTRICT 20 THAT’S MOST OF THE
SOUTH
SIDE AREA.
>>MEANWHILE DEMOCRAT JOHN
EDWARDS ALSO HOLDS ON TO HIS
SEAT IN ROANOKE DISTRICT
21 COVERS ROANOKE GILES AND
MONTGOMERY COUNTIES AND IN THE
22TH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN MARK
PEAKE HAS BEEN REELECTED
ARE ELECTED RATHER HE’S HELD
THAT SEAT SINCE
2017 THAT DISTRICT COVERS ALL
OF AMBER’S COUNTY AND
LYNCHBURG AND FOR
THE 25TH DISTRICT WHICH COVERS
ALLEGHENY LEXINGTON BATH
AND ROCKBRIDGE DEMOCRAT CREIGH
DEEDS HOLDS ON TO
HIS SEAT.
>>SENATE DISTRICT 38 COVERING
PULASKI BLAND RADFORD AND
OTHERS CESAR REELECTED RIPPED
PUBLICAN
BEEN CHASEN SENATE DISTRICT 40
HAS ELECTED PUBLIC AND TODD
>>AND JOINING US ONCE AGAIN IS 10 NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST DOCTOR AT LUNCH WITH A LITTLE
BIT MORE IN DEPTH NOW AT FIRST
OF ALL HOW IS STORE IT IS IS THIS NIGHT WITH DEMOCRATS TAKING OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME
WHAT 2 DECADES.
>>I IT’S
GOING TO MEAN SOME MAJOR
CHANGES SO THE DEMOCRATS HAVE
BEEN WORKING TOWARDS THIS FOR
SOME TIME AND THE NORTHERN
LANDSLIDE 2 YEARS AGO OF
A A WE’RE ABLE TO PICK UP A
NUMBER OF SEATS UH SO I THINK
THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF PLANNING
FOR WHAT’S AHEAD AND I
THINK THERE WILL WE WILL SEE
SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
COME JANUARY.
>>ALL RIGHT SO THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY IS WATCHING VIRGINIA
TONIGHT BECAUSE YOU KNOW
THERE’S NO MAJOR.
ELECTIONS NATIONWIDE
TONIGHT WE WERE YOU KNOW WE’RE
LOOKING AT OUR INTERSTATE
HOUSES HERE.
AND LOVE PEOPLE SAYING IT’S A
REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENT TRUMP
IS IT IS
THAT FAIR.
>>WELL I THINK ARE A LOT OF
THINGS INVOLVED ALMOST ALL OF
WHICH FAVOR THE DEMOCRATS IN
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THE A
RECORD AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT
CAME FROM OUT OF STATE TO ELECT
DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATES, THE THEY GOT THE
REDISTRICTING MAP THAT THEY
WANTED WHICH WAS VERY I WAS
LOOKING AT SOME OF
THE RACES AND THE RACES WHERE
THERE WAS AN ACTUAL REPUBLICAN
AND DEMOCRAT
BOTH RUNNING.
REPUBLICANS WON THOSE LOPSIDED
IN BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE
SENATE SO WHERE THIS VICTORY
COMES FROM IS REALLY THE
DISTRICTS THAT WERE UNCONTESTED
AND THEY WERE IN CONTESTED
BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE DISTRICT
LINES ARE DRAWN.
AND THEN THE PRESIDENT UNDER
THE THREAT
OF IMPEACHMENT.
EVERYTHING FAVOR THE DEMOCRATS
I WOULD SAY THEY ACTUALLY
UNDERPERFORMED TONIGHT THE
DEMOCRATS YES, OR YOU ARE
THOUGHT THEY WOULD WON MORE
SEATS THAN THEY ACTUALLY DID
THAT’S RIGHT.
YES, OKAY.
>>I’M SO SO
THE HOW HOW IS ALL THIS GOING
TO LIVE DIFFERENTLY FOR
VIRGINIANS FOR VIEWERS WHO ARE
WATCHING TONIGHT WHAT CHANGES
DO YOU THINK
BILL C WHERE WILL THEY FEEL THE
IMPACT OF OF TONIGHT’S POLL.
>>WELL I THINK SOME GROUPS WILL
FEEL THE MORE QUICKLY
THAN I THINK THERE WILL
CERTAINLY BE CHANGES IN THE
ABORTION REGULATIONS MAKING
ABORTION EASIER
TO ACQUIRE HERE IN VIRGINIA AND
AT THE SAME TIME GUNS, MAYBE A
LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT
TO ACQUIRE.
I THINK
STATE TO RIGHT TO WORK LAWS
PROBABLY IN SOME SIGNIFICANT
DANGER IN RICHMOND OF AT LEAST
SOME MAJOR CHANGES IF NOT
OUTRIGHT REPEAL BUT I ALSO
THINK THAT THE RESULTS BEING
CLOSER THAN I EXPECTED THEM
TO BE DEMONSTRATE THAT A
VIRGINIA STILL A PURPLE STATE
NOT NOT
DEEP BLUE.
>>OK SO YOU THINK WITH THE WITH
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
COMING UP NEXT
YEAR MAYBE A VIRGINIA WE DON’T
KNOW WHICH WAY VIRGINIA
WOULD GO.
>>YEAH I THINK BOTH HER FIRST
OF ALL VIRGINIA WAS A SURPRISE
IN 2016 NOT THAT WENT
DEMOCRATIC.
UH I THINK MOST PEOPLE
EXPECTED THAT BUT THAT IT TOOK
SO LONG TO GO DEMOCRATIC
PARTICULARLY WITH TIM KAINE ON
THE
TICKET SO WHAT
THESE RESULTS SHOW AND THERE
ARE INDICATIONS THAT AREN’T
IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS, BUT IF YOU
DELVE INTO
THE NUMBERS IT’S CLOSER
THAN IT LOOKS OF THE VIRGINIA
STILL A PURPLE STATE
AND IF THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO
GOVERN AS THOUGH IT’S A DEEP
BLUE STATE I THINK THEY’RE
GOING TO GET PUNISHED FOR THAT
IN
THE POLLS.
>>OKAY AND THEN JUST YOU
MENTIONED THE GUN CONTROL VERY
QUICKLY GOT ABOUT
30 SECONDS LEFT IF A IF THE
DEMOCRATS WERE TO MAKE
PROGRESS.
ON THE TOPIC OF GUN CONTROL
WHAT YOU THINK THAT WOULD
LOOK LIKE.
>>I THERE MIGHT BE REGISTRY.
I THINK THERE MIGHT BE RED
SORT OF BUT I WOULD BE
SURPRISED IF A PARTICULAR TYPE
OF WEAPON WERE
BANNED STATEWIDE THAT
THAT I THAT I
DON’T THINK THEY’LL DO A AND
IN GENERAL THE DEMOCRATS I
THINK WOULD BE WELL ADVISED TO
TAKE A LOOK AT THESE RESULTS
VERY CLOSELY AND MOVE PERHAPS A
LITTLE BIT MORE SLOWLY THAN
THAN WAITING 20 YEARS MIGHT
INDICATE.
OKAY DOCTOR LYNCH, THANK YOU
VERY MUCH.
THANK YOU.
>>AND FOLKS IF YOU WANT TO CATCH UP ON ALL THE LOCAL RACES IN THIS YEAR’S ELECTION.