While a blue wave has swept over much of the nation, and Democratic challenger Shannon Taylor has unseated Republican incumbent Rob Wittman in Virginia’s 1st Congressional District overall, voters in Gloucester and Mathews counties sided mainly with Wittman, as well as Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bert Mizusawa in the two statewide elections on the ballot Tuesday. Wittman’s loss is historic. He had served in the post for nearly 20 years, first winning a special election in 2007 to fill the unexpired term of the late Jo Ann Davis. Virginia’s 1st Congressional District has not been represented by a Democrat since Tom Downing of Newport News retired in 1976. While Wittman won Gloucester and Mathews voters handily on Tuesday (66.09 percent in Gloucester and 67.57 percent in Mathews), those percentages were below two years ago, when he received 73.15 percent in Gloucester and 74 percent in Mathews in 2022. “Tonight, we sent a message: people are sick and tired of the corruption and they...