Virginia Democrat Jennifer Wexton unseats incumbent GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock

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Democrat Jennifer Wexton has defeated incumbent Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) in Virginia's 10th District House race, NBC News and Reuters project.

Wexton won 58.8 percent of the vote to Comstock's 41.2 percent, with 44.1 percent of precincts reporting, per Reuters. This marks Democrats' first flipped House seat of the 2018 midterms.

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Kathryn Krawczyk
Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.