Rep. Abigail Spanberger is casting herself as a tough-on-crime Democrat to blunt attacks from GOP challenger Yesli Vega, a former police officer who says the incumbent only claims to back the blue when it comes to crunch time in a campaign.
Every chance she gets, Ms. Spanberger, who is one of the most vulnerable House Democrats this cycle, boasts about her record in Congress securing federal dollars for law enforcement agencies and police departments in her district, which stretches from the outskirts of Richmond into the suburbs of Northern Virginia and has not been spared from a national crime wave.