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Spanberger effect: Republicans flip deep blue county-level seat in Northern Virginia

Jeannie LaCroix last night flipped a county level Northern Virginia county level seat.. The seat has been held by communist Democrats for the last 38 years. This is obviously the Spambooger effect in action.. The Woodbridge District seat on the Prince William County Board of Supervisors. Running as a Republican, she flipped a seat that had been held by Democrats for 38 years. This was amid Democratic internal issues (including turmoil in their nomination process) and controversy surrounding the Democratic candidate, Muhammad “Sef” Casim, whose past social media posts drew criticism. LaCroix campaigned on priorities like fixing roads and schools, improving public safety, responsible growth, lower taxes, and bringing common-sense, respectful leadership to local government. Her campaign website emphasizes listening to residents and making Woodbridge better for everyone.

A Republican won a deep-blue Northern Virginia county-level seat in a major upset Tuesday after revelations that her Democratic opponent made racist social media posts more than 10 years ago.

Republican Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat defeating Democratic nominee Muhammed Sufiyan Casim, 36, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, who in the 2010s made a series of online posts containing racist, misogynist and antisemitic content, Potomac Local News reported. Casim, who was in his 20s when he posted the content, apologized for the posts in an interview with the Prince William Times — saying he had used the N-word “foolishly” and suggested he had copied the behavior of “kids” of “brown ethnicity” at the time.

“I wasn’t realizing the cultural weight and the context, so I used that word foolishly, but not in a derogatory or prejudicial way,” the Democrat told the outlet, adding that he used the racial slur to refer to his black friend. “Back in those days, a lot of kids would use that word both with kids of African American origin and people of any brown ethnicity.”

In a March 2 X post addressing the posts and confirming his intention not to drop out of the race, Casim said the rhetoric of the former Republican chairman of the Board of Supervisors, who left office seven years ago, “has emboldened neo-Nazis,” before mentioning that he is Muslim.