Democrat Takes Lead in Virginia Attorney General’s Race

Mark Herring (D) took a small lead over Mark Obenshain (R) in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race, after he picked up more than 100 previously uncounted votes in Richmond, the Washington Post reports.

Herring had started the day trailing Obenshain by a mere 17 votes out of 2.2 million cast. But as jurisdictions across the state continued to scrub their vote counts, the State Board of Elections showed Herring with a 117-vote lead late Monday.