Of her 2012 bill, she said, “He brings this up every chance he gets because there are other issues that he could talk about, but I clearly think he is not informed enough on those issues to talk intelligently about them. I just have to put that out there.”

She said Fairfax was trying to score political points “at the expense of women” and said, “I fundamentally believe that he misunderstands the subject matter.”

Fairfax then largely ignored a question about why he opposes the two proposed natural gas pipelines that would cross Virginia and will not accept donations from Dominion Energy.

“You just saw a perfect example of the way Senator Vogel engages in elections,” he said. She “said that I am not intelligent enough to understand a piece of legislation. ... This is exactly what people reject. She just hired her second Trump adviser on her campaign this week. And so what we can expect is for Senator Vogel to keep going in the gutter.”

He noted that Vogel emerged from a GOP primary with her main competitor threatening to sue her for defamation.