“There are a lot of similarities” in Democrats’ current position and the 2018 campaigns, said Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., who, as a House member, chaired his party’s congressional campaign arm during Trump’s first midterm election cycle.

The lineups for both parties present a stunningly diverse crop of candidates who highlight the changing nature of Virginia, the old capital of the Confederacy.

Stoney told the Virginia Mercury that he will effectively work across the aisle in the lieutenant governor’s dual role of president of the Virginia State Senate.