Democrats in Southeast Virginia Endorse "Pro-Trump, Pro-ICE" Sheriff
The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who proclaimed his office “pro-Trump, pro-ICE,” and who campaigned as a Republican this year as “Detain ‘Em Dave Rosado.”
This comes after Rosado lost the June 17 GOP primary to Wallace Chadwick, a local police lieutenant who pitched himself as an even more loyal ICE ally than Rosado.
Following his loss, Rosado vowed to stay in the race and promptly launched a write-in campaign for the November general election, asking local Democrats for their support.
Chesapeake is a purple city that has often voted for Democrats, including in four of the past five presidential elections. But no Democrat or independent had filed to run for sheriff in advance of a mid-June deadline, to the immense frustration of local immigrant rights advocates who’d hoped to have an alternative to rally around. “It blows my mind that there’s no opposition,” Maida Dooley, an organizer in the region, told Bolts in early June, calling local party leadership complacent. “Maybe they don’t care,” she said.
https://boltsmag.org/chesapeake-sheriff-election-democratic-endorsement-rosado/