Democratic
Joy Powers
Major-party general-election nominee.
VotePredictor forecast
Morgan Griffith favored
Safe R · predicted margin R+43.2
100%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
R+43.52026 national environment
D+5.5Model uncertainty
±6.9 pointsFundamentals model using district presidential lean, incumbency and the national environment. It is not a poll average.
Republican
Morgan Griffith
Incumbent representative for VA-9. Voting record, ideology and biography →
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for VA-9. The forecast above therefore uses fundamentals only. A poll table will appear here when matched polls are available.
Other forecasts
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Candidate news
Report from San Juan: New Bill Targets Citizenship Rights As Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of PROMESA
After failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parents in U.S. territ…
Democracy Now! · July 24, 2026
Exclusive – Rep. Morgan Griffith: VA Gov. Spanberger Said She Had No Plans to Redistrict But It's the First Bill She Signed
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) is not a centrist and was not truthful about plans on redistricting, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. The post Exclusive – Rep. Morgan Griffith: VA Gov. Spanberger Said She Had…
Breitbart News · May 1, 2026
Republicans Prove Irony Is Dead With Vote Condemning Fascism
American politics has come a long way since World War II.More than 250,000 Americans lost their lives fighting fascism in the European theater between 1942 and 1945, but decades later, that fervor to reject the destructive ideology seems to have died amongst …
The New Republic · November 18, 2025
Democrats Erupt as Mike Johnson Calls Recess Despite Looming Shutdown
House Democrats decried Republican leadership at a Tuesday protest against Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to keep the body out of session as a government shutdown looms.Democratic lawmakers decided to show up en masse to a pro forma session of the House on T…
The New Republic · September 30, 2025
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