The Virginia Bar Association has canceled the first debate in the campaign for Virginia’s U.S. Senate seat because it said it could not get “a timely commitment to participate” from Hung Cao, the Republican challenger to Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
The debate, scheduled on July 20 at The Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, is the traditional kickoff for statewide campaign debate season and the first of three debates that Kaine said he has accepted in his campaign for reelection to a third term.
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