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For the past eight months, gubernatorial candidate Rep. Despite all attempts to cultivate an air of inevitability around her nomination, Spanberger now faces a potential primary. The prospect of a primary for the Democratic nomination between Rep. But the Wilder-Terry standoff for the gubernatorial nomination in suggests Spanberger could face a tough decision.

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As approached, L. Douglas Wilder was the sitting Democratic lieutenant governor and Mary Sue Terry was the sitting Democratic attorney general. The Wilder-Terry rivalry was documented in by R. Melton and Donald P. According to one oral history, Robb, Baliles, and Terry even had sufficient delegates locked up to secure her the gubernatorial nomination at the June Democratic state convention.

In the end, Terry was re-nominated at the Democratic convention for a second term as attorney general. Donald S. Beyer Jr. Richard L. Saslaw for the lieutenant governor nomination. And Wilder was nominated for governor. Why did Terry decide not to run for governor in , even though she had the backing of the Democratic Party establishment and its most prominent and powerful leaders?

Wilder made history.