As you peruse the following, convoluted VA GOP nominating process (graphics from VPAP) for its May 8 “unassembled convention,” remember that the VA GOP could have just gone with a state-run primary on June 8, which is what Democrats did, but noooooooo….that would be waaaayyy too easy for the Trump Republicans. Instead, they spent months locked in bitter, at-time vicious infighting, finally limping to a conclusion on March 12. Here’s the result:











![Wednesday News: “The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp”; Trump Threatens to Arrest Mamdani; “Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Trump’s Big Bill”; [VA] GOP nominees share stage, but not unity”; “Hoos your daddy, Virginia?” (Not Youngkin)](https://bluevirginia.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/montage0702-238x178.jpg)






![Saturday News: “Trump’s latest tariff TACO probably won’t make your life more affordable”; “The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump”; “[MTG] questions if Trump is still the ‘America First’ president”; “Jim Ryan tells all: ‘What did the Governor know, when did he know it?’”](https://bluevirginia.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/montage1115-100x75.jpg)

