Federal Fallout: The 2026 Midterms Edition

00:00.95 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. Today, our guest is David Ramadan, a former Republican delegate. 00:12.13 Sam Shirazi Thank you for joining me. 00:13.80 DR DR Good to be with you, Sam. Thanks for having me. 00:16.32 Sam Shirazi Yeah, so I wanted to have you on because you've had the experience of actually being a member o...

00:00.78 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. Today is the start of early voting in Virginia for the primary and I wanted to do a special bonus episode to celebrate it. 00:14.36 Sam Shirazi But before turning to that, I did just briefly want to mention a recent piece of Virginia political news that is not related to the 2025 election. An...

00:00.70 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia elections. This episode we will have our first candidate interview with Democrat Jessica Anderson. 00:13.29 Sam Shirazi She is running in Virginia's 71st House of Delegates district and that includes Williamsburg and some of the surrounding areas. 00:18.87 Jessica Anderson So. 00:21.96 Sam Shirazi In 20...

00:00.78 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will go over the chaos at the Lieutenant Governor level for the Virginia GOP. 00:12.89 Sam Shirazi so earlier this week, I did a bonus episode on the dropping out of Pat Herrity from the Virginia GOP primary. That meant that by default, John Reid would be the GOP nominee. 00:2...

00:00.83 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus episode to go over some breaking news that happened on Monday in the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor. So the front runner, Fairfax Supervisor Pat Herrity has announced that he is withdrawing from the Republican Lieutenant Governor's race. 00:23.72 Sam Shi...

00:00.77 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus episode looking at the latest Virginia campaign finance numbers. 00:12.58 Sam Shirazi so April 15th was not just tax day. It was also the deadline for campaigns to file their first quarter campaign finance numbers in Virginia. and I should note that obviously we're a l...

00:00.77 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This episode, I will be interviewing Democratic consultant Ben Tribbett. He's the found founder of Pocket Aces Consulting. 00:14.91 Sam Shirazi And I'm also old enough to remember when Ben had his blog, which was one of the original go-to sources for Virginia politics. And now you can get...

00:00.77 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This will be the first and hopefully many interview episodes, and I'm really excited to have as my first guest Chaz Nuttycombe. 00:14.31 Sam Shirazi Chaz, thanks for coming on. 00:16.41 Chaz Nuttycombe Hey, Sam, thanks for having me on. I've really enjoyed some of the episodes you've you've...

00:00.76 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will review the Virginia primary filing deadline and then we'll explore if the June primary might be the real contest this year in Virginia. 00:16.20 Sam Shirazi So to kick things off, on the Democratic side, no other candidate filed for governor other than former Congresswoma...

00:00.71 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a special bonus episode that will look at the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and what it means for Virginia this November. 00:16.38 Sam Shirazi So it was a really crazy race in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court election there. Wisconsin always has really competitive elections, and this...

00:00.77 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode we will look at the most competitive races in the Virginia House of Delegates this year. 00:12.77 Sam Shirazi The main focus will be a preview of the general election. I will do a separate episode about the primaries in the Virginia House of Delegates after the filing deadline pa...

00:01.55 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia Elections. This is a bonus episode that we'll be looking at a new poll about Doge and also how Virginia politicians on both sides of the aisle are dealing with the issue right now. 00:20.47 Sam Shirazi So, I should guess I should first start that sometimes I will do these bonus episodes if there's some...

Transcript 00:01.13 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode will focus on the Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General races, both the primaries and the general election. 00:13.91 Sam Shirazi Who's running and what the races could look like. First up, the Lieutenant Governor's race. Both parties will have primaries and we'll st...

Transcript 00:01.14 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. This is a special Senate episode. 00:12.13 Sam Shirazi Just like the Senate yesterday, the votes are there for cloture, so let us proceed. So it was a crazy week in the Senate, and I wanted to just quickly talk about what happened and then switch gears about how that what happened...

Transcript 00:01.38 Sam Shirazi Hi, everyone. I'm Sam Shirazi, and this is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia Elections. This episode, we will look at tariff troubles and how they might affect the 2025 Virginia Elections. 00:17.28 Sam Shirazi Then we will switch gears and talk about how you can get get involved this year in Virginia. Now, to set things up, the name of this podcast is Federal Fallo...

Transcript 00:01.15 Sam Shirazi Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi, a Virginia political analyst. This is the second episode of Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections. 00:11.72 Sam Shirazi This episode will be a deep dive in the governor's race, who's running, their backgrounds, their potential strengths and weaknesses, and then what the general election might look like. 00:23.20 Sam Shirazi Then...

Transcript: Hi everyone, I'm Sam Shirazi, a Virginia political analyst. This is Federal Fallout, the 2025 Virginia elections, a new podcast series that will provide updates this year as the elections play out in Virginia. 00:15.54 Sam Shirazi This first episode will give a big picture overview of what's on the ballot this year. Future episodes will delve into all the key races. Today, we'll also t...