Virginia GOP chair addresses infighting and the 2026 mid-terms

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

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The saying about Virginia is “There’s an election every year.” In 2026, the Commonwealth is looking at two. A special election in early spring to overturn the Constitutional Amendment regarding redistricting and then the mid-term Congressional elections, regardless of what the districts look like, in November. Amid all that, internal accusations are tearing up the pages of Conservative social media and Substack accounts saying that the statewide losses in 2025 need to be addressed with leadership changes at the Republican Party of Virginia. We sit down with the Chairman of the Party, State Senator Mark Peake to go over it all. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.dailysignal.com/email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2284199939⁠ The Signal Sitdown: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376⁠ Problematic Women:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741⁠ Victor Davis Hanson: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327⁠ Follow The Daily Signal: X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal⁠ Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Truth Social:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to this bonus episode of the Daily Signal podcast.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Joe Thomas, Virginia correspondent for The Daily Signal.
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0:44.1	Now, let's get started with today's conversation right after this.
0:48.5	He is the chair of the Republican Party of Virginia.
0:52.8	He is also one of Virginia state senators looking forward
0:57.2	to a January of some very interesting goings on in Richmond. And he is Senator Mark Peake.
1:05.2	Good morning, Senator. And thank you for taking a little time out with me today. How are you doing?
1:10.5	I am doing great today, Joe.
1:12.3	Always great to talk to you. I have to ask this because I read these laws and Sharnel Herring's
1:18.9	filing for the redistricting law in Virginia, regardless of legal battles over it or not. It specifically
1:27.2	says if any other states redistrict. And we just
1:31.3	saw the law, the judge saying Texas can't redistrict. So does that mean we can't if Texas doesn't?
1:39.7	Great minds, Joe. I was saying the same thing after I heard about that court ruling, but
1:46.2	unfortunately, I think North Carolina has reduced it. And you'll get California too, so my gosh.
1:55.3	Well, yeah, and although California will. So I think North Carolina would be enough to do it. I think they've already
2:04.8	done. Of course, there's going to be challenged as well. So I don't, you know, that's going to be
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