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Don Beyer vs Heerak Christian Kim

Safe DD +37.9 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 0 polls · 2 marketsMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
99% Beyer (D)
1% Kim (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin D +37.9 · 80% CI D+21.8 → D+54.0 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.7%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 94¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Where this race stands
Verified

Safe D · model 99% D

No recent polls or markets for this race. PVI baseline (D+26) suggests Safe D.

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts D+37.9 with an 80% CI ranging from D+21.8 (10th pctile) to D+54.0 (90th pctile), giving D a 99% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.7% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · safe-d · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
D +37.9
80% CI: D +21.8D +54.0 · win prob 99%
R+60R+30TIEDD+30D+60
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models3 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
D +50.5
80% CI D +42.9 → D +54.9
CV MAE 8.51
bayes-v1Bayes / Kalman
R +2.1
80% CI R +7.0 → D +2.7
CV MAE 3.77
consensusMarket-implied
D +14.8
no interval
market-implied

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 94¢1 platformupdated 11h ago
Cross-platform price · history
85¢90¢95¢100¢54 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWMay 14Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Republican Party win the VA-08 House seat?
94¢6¢+0¢+0

Endorsements · 8 total

Source · Wikipedia · 1 candidate with no endorsements yet
8Beyer · 100%
DDon Beyer8 endorsers
Most notable · Mark Warner · Virginia (2009–present)
Organizations6
Elected officials2
Federal 2State 0Local 0
RHeerak Christian Kim0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing —
Don BeyerOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$1.6M
Disburse
$1.4M
Cash on hand
$755.4K
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.
Heerak Christian KimOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$2.7K
Disburse
$1.7K
Cash on hand
$1.2K
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.

Editorial ratings · 4 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe D4
Cook Political Report
Safe D
Jun 17
Inside Elections
Safe D
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe D
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe D
Jun 24

Demographic crosstabs

age · education · race · gender
No demographic crosstabs published for this race yet. Most pollsters release only topline numbers; subgroup breakdowns (age, education, race, gender) appear here when a pollster publishes them.
Rating timeline
May 5, 2026Safe Dmodel
May 3, 2026Tilt Dmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested1 platformupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE
Endorsements9 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks