McClellan joins Del. Lamont Bagby (D-Henrico) -- a fellow leader of the Legislative Black Caucus -- in the race for the Democratic nomination.
McClellan said that if elected she hoped to model her service in Congress after McEachin, with whom she served in the House and succeeded in the state Senate, calling him a friend and mentor.
McClellan joins Del. Lamont Bagby in the Democratic race for the nomination — pitting the top two leaders of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus against each other in what will likely be a brief butThe race will unfold on a blindingly fast timeline. Gov. Glenn Youngkin set the special election for Feb. 21, with a filing deadline of Dec. 23. But because the 4th District is solidly blue, the race for the Democratic nomination is where the real contest will be.
State Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey is also expected to make an announcement concerning the 4th District seat on Tuesday morning, though he did not provide more details. Joseph Preston, who served one year in the House of Delegates in 2015, is also running. But McClellan said she would bring something Bagby doesn’t have: the perspective of a Black woman. She would be the first“Every issue is a women’s issue. There are some that impact women, and Black women in particular, differently. But every issue impacts us in a way that sometimes our voice and our perspective is not heard, because we don’t have a seat at the table,” said McClellan, “and it’s really time that Virginia’s congressional delegation have that voice and that perspective.
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