INTERVIEW — Virginia House of Delegates Speaker-designee KIRK COX (R-Colonial Heights) — joined WMAL’s morning-drive radio show on Friday!

• Republican wins drawing to decide Virginia House race, keeping GOP in charge. Two narrow slips of paper — one bearing the name of a Democrat and the other the name of a Republican — were rolled up by Virginia election officials Thursday, inserted into film canisters and dropped into a cobalt-and-white stoneware bowl. Dozens of officials, reporters and onlookers looked on silently as officials performed a bizarre lottery in Richmond to pick the winner of a closely contested House of Delegates district race — one that could upset Republicans’ long-held majority and leave the chamber evenly split between the two parties. Sitting in the front row, Democratic candidate Shelly Simonds clasped her husband’s and daughter’s hands as officials reached into the bowl and plucked the canisters out, one by one. “The winner of House District 94 is David Yancey,” declared the chairman of the state election board, James Alcorn, smiling tightly after unfurling the first piece of paper.