Tony Sabio tries to flip deep-blue VA-8 against Don Beyer
The Republican veteran is pitching national security, nuclear power and private-sector growth in Northern Virginia’s bluest House seat.
WTOP, reprinting Virginia Mercury, profiles Republican Tony Sabio as he tries to unseat six-term Democratic Rep. Don Beyer in Virginia’s reliably blue 8th Congressional District. Sabio is a Lorton security expert with U.S. military, Secret Service and CIA experience, and he recently served as Purcellville’s interim town manager. His platform centers on making Northern Virginia less dependent on the federal government, expanding private-sector manufacturing, and using small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers. The climb is steep: Virginia Mercury notes Beyer has not won with less than 70% since 2014, while Sabio says he is “80-90% in agreement” with Trump administration policies. Early voting is underway; Election Day is Nov. 3.
Why it matters: VA-8 touches Arlington, Alexandria and parts of Fairfax, which means this race sits right in the DMV’s federal-worker, defense-contractor and data-center economy. For Northern Virginia, the policy fight is not abstract: it is jobs, shutdown pain, energy demand and who gets to define the region’s next economic lane.
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