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Retired Army major general and attorney running for the U.S. Senate.

His campaign says he graduated first in his West Point class, earned a law degree from Harvard, and commanded troops in combat, including a joint task force in Afghanistan. It says he later held senior civilian posts in the Army and as an adviser at the CIA.

• He says he would focus on balancing the federal budget.
• He says he would lower the tax on selling a home and the broader tax burden on Virginia families.
• He says he would protect veterans' health benefits, ban members of Congress from trading stocks, and support new nuclear plants to bring down household energy costs.

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U.S. senator whose campaign says he helped write the Affordable Care Act and a bipartisan infrastructure law.

His campaign says he was the first in his family to finish college, that his first two businesses failed, and that a later company succeeded. It says he is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and has worked with both parties on bills signed into law.

• He wants more housing through rehabilitation and faster permits, and an easier path to a first mortgage, and he says lower health costs depend on a basic standard of care for every American.
• He says companies that profit from artificial intelligence should help prepare workers and pay for the energy that technology will demand.
• He supports an assault-weapons ban and background checks, and he says Virginia voters should be able to put abortion access, marriage equality, and restoration of voting rights into the state constitution.

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U.S. representative for Virginia's 1st District.

He says he was adopted at eight months after time at the Children's Home Society of Virginia, raised in Henrico County by a World War II veteran and a public-school teacher, and worked jobs from groceries and a cannery to fishing boats. He studied biology at Virginia Tech, earned a master's in public health from the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. in public policy from Virginia Commonwealth University. He says he lives in Montross and spends the week driving between home and Washington.

• He says Washington should lower the cost of groceries, power, housing, health care, and child care, keep taxes down, produce more American energy, and cut regulations that make it harder to build and hire.
• He says he supported tax relief that locked in and doubled the Child Tax Credit, raised the standard deduction to $31,500 for families, and ended tax on qualifying tips and overtime.
• He also says he backed tax provisions that help small businesses invest and let seniors keep more of their Social Security checks.

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Henrico County commonwealth's attorney running for Congress.

Her campaign says she is a lifelong Virginian who has been Henrico's top prosecutor for 14 years, trying cases against violent crime, fraud, and sex trafficking. She says she created a task force on opioids and was among the first prosecutors to defend access to abortion care after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

• She says she would ban congressional stock trading and a path from Congress to lobbying, require jail for members who steal taxpayer funds, and set 12-year term limits, and she pledges to take no corporate PAC money.
• She says she would restore Affordable Care Act tax credits, expand Medicare drug-price negotiation, protect Social Security and Medicare, and bring down child-care and senior-care costs.
• She says she would cut taxes for working families and small businesses, rein in tariffs and wars that raise prices, and keep new data centers from raising families' energy bills.

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U.S. representative, former Navy pilot, and nurse practitioner.

She says she flew H-46 and H-3 helicopters for ten years, with two Persian Gulf deployments, and is married to retired F/A-18 pilot Steve. She used the GI Bill to become a board-certified adult-geriatric nurse practitioner and worked in long-term care and a Virginia Beach primary-care practice. In Congress she serves on Armed Services, Natural Resources, and Veterans' Affairs, where she chairs the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

• She says she has prioritized cutting inflation and helped pass spending cuts, and she supported the Working Families Tax Cuts that made the 2017 tax cuts permanent and ended most taxes on tips and overtime.
• She says she fights regulatory burdens so small businesses and industries important to Virginia can hire, and she worked to expand the Child Tax Credit.
• She says spending cuts should still fully fund veterans' benefits, the military, and Social Security and Medicare.

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Former member of Congress, Navy veteran, and small-business owner.

Her campaign says she joined the Navy at 17, spent 20 years on ships with six deployments, then built the Mermaid Factory from her kitchen table in Hampton Roads. She says she previously served the district in Congress, including on Veterans' Affairs.

• She says she would restore Affordable Care Act subsidies, expand Medicare drug negotiation, cap insulin at $35, and restore Medicaid funding she says was cut.
• She says she would strengthen Social Security and Medicare, fight offshore drilling, fund the Chesapeake Bay program, and ban members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks.
• She says she helped pass the PACT Act, would reverse cuts to veterans' care, repeal tariffs that raise prices, and serve as a check on the war in Iran.

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Army veteran and former police officer running for Congress.

His campaign says he was raised in poverty and foster care, then by his grandparents in Puerto Rico, worked as a police officer there, and served combat tours in the Middle East before retiring as a disabled veteran. It calls him a grassroots conservative and a supporter of the Second Amendment.

• He says responsible gun ownership is both a right and a responsibility, and that he would protect the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.
• His site lists education, public safety, affordable health care, veterans, youth mentorship, Social Security, and small-business job growth as his priorities.
• He says he is committed to strengthening families, expanding opportunity, and building safer communities in the 3rd District.

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U.S. representative and ranking Democrat on Education and the Workforce.

His campaign says he grew up in Newport News and has represented Virginia's 3rd District since 1993. It says he is known as one of the hardest-working members of Congress and is fighting for students, workers, families, and seniors.

• He says he authored legislation to raise the federal minimum wage gradually to $17 an hour and the PRO Act on the right to organize.
• He says he was a lead author of the Every Student Succeeds Act and is fighting to make college more affordable through his College Affordability Act.
• He says he was the House sponsor of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and is leading work on evidence-based criminal-justice reform.

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Candidate who calls himself Family Man Murray.

His campaign says he would improve health, restore what he calls the we in wealth, and respect both states' rights and civil rights. He pledges to donate his post-tax congressional salary to Virginia charities until individual taxes no longer pay that salary.

• He says he would press Congress to stop taxing individual income, including tips and Social Security, and to bring 80 percent of overseas military forces home by 2032.
• He says technology should not surveil, deceive, or silence people, and that he would shield Virginians from data centers they do not want.
• He says he would fix family law, protect speech, religion, association, equal opportunity, and privacy, and govern by the Golden Rule.

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U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th District.

Jennifer McClellan's office says she entered Congress in 2023 after a special election and was the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia. Born in Petersburg, she was valedictorian of Matoaca High School and earned degrees from the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia School of Law. She served in the Virginia House beginning in 2005 and the State Senate beginning in 2017, and she lives in Richmond with her husband David Mills and their two children.

• She says that on the Energy and Commerce Committee she works on access to health care, lower energy bills, and a clean and livable planet.
• She says that in the General Assembly she passed bills to protect and expand voting rights, combat climate change, preserve reproductive health care, and strengthen worker protections.

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U.S. representative for Virginia's 5th District.

John McGuire's office says he is in his first term and serves on Armed Services and Oversight. He was born in central Virginia, spent his early childhood in foster care, served 10 years as a Navy SEAL, and then founded a fitness business, SEAL Team PT. He was elected to the Virginia legislature in 2018.

• He says he is focused on keeping costs low for families, defending the country, shrinking the federal government, and supporting infrastructure and agriculture.

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Former member of Congress running again in Virginia's 5th District.

His campaign says he previously delivered emergency economic relief after the 2008 crash, voted against bailing out Wall Street, and cast a vote he says delivered affordable care and kept rural clinics open. He says he has rejected lobbyist and corporate PAC donations and is endorsed by End Citizens United.

• He says his first priority is lowering costs by ending tariffs that raised grocery bills, ending the Iran war he says raised gas and fertilizer prices, and stopping deals he says are bankrupting the country.
• He says he will keep fighting until every family can afford health care, child care, housing, and a secure retirement.
• He says he would ban dark money and insider trading and pursue people he says are tied to the Epstein files and to theft from the treasury.

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U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th District.

Ben Cline's office says he serves on Judiciary, Appropriations, Intelligence, and Budget. He represented the 24th District in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2018, chaired its Militia, Police, and Public Safety committee, and worked as an assistant commonwealth's attorney and as chief of staff to Congressman Bob Goodlatte. He grew up in Rockbridge County and lives in Botetourt County with his wife Elizabeth and their two daughters.

• His office lists the economy, energy, veterans, health care, and reforming Congress among the issues he works on.

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Author and former Roanoke Times reporter running for Congress.

Her campaign says she grew up poor in a small Ohio town, was the first in her family to go to college, and spent 25 years at The Roanoke Times. She says her books include Factory Man, Dopesick, and Paper Girl, and that Dopesick became a Hulu series she helped produce.

• She says she is running to make life affordable for working families, expand health and mental health care, and invest in rural communities.
• She says every child should have a real chance by rebuilding the ladder that helped her leave poverty.
• She says she has stood with people overlooked by a system that benefits billionaires, including families hurt by addiction and workers whose jobs disappeared.

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Retired Army lieutenant colonel and consultant running for Congress.

His campaign says he is a husband and father of seven who lives in Culpeper County, served two combat tours in Iraq, advised coalition forces in Afghanistan, taught at West Point, and was director for Iraq at the National Security Council. He says he now leads a consulting firm that combats corruption.

• He says he is focused on restoring fiscal responsibility, rebuilding American industry, and ensuring food security.
• He says he would protect the values that shape both rural communities and fast-growing suburbs, and build a stronger, safer, and more affordable America.

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U.S. representative, refugee, and Army veteran.

He says he was born in Soviet Ukraine to a Jewish family, left at age three after his mother died, and arrived in New York as a refugee in 1979. He says he attended public schools in Brooklyn, SUNY Binghamton, and Army ROTC at Cornell, and that he served 25 years in the Army, including in the Iraq War.

• He says his top priority is cutting taxes and lowering costs for working families, including a crackdown on anti-competitive practices and support for small businesses.
• He supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy and an end to costly foreign wars, which he says would lower gas and utility bills.
• He says he is running to protect democracy and the freedoms his family found after fleeing the Soviet Union.

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Republican candidate who says government should work for the people it serves.

His campaign says Northern Virginia sits at the center of national security, the federal workforce, and the economy, and that families there feel rising costs and strained infrastructure. He says he is running to focus on solutions.

• He says his priorities are lowering energy costs, creating jobs, and protecting small businesses.
• He names the Energy Affordability and American Power Act, the American Jobs and Opportunity Act, the Small Business First Act, the Safe Communities and Secure America Act, and an American Health Freedom Plan.

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U.S. representative and former Virginia lieutenant governor.

His official biography says he is in his sixth term representing Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and parts of Fairfax County, and that he serves on Ways and Means and the Joint Economic Committee. He was lieutenant governor from 1990 to 1998 and ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Obama.

• His biography says his signature work as lieutenant governor included advocacy for Virginians with disabilities and protections for vulnerable people during welfare changes.
• It says he chaired Jobs for Virginia Graduates, a high-school dropout-prevention program, and served on the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
• As ambassador, it says, he pressed for stricter sanctions to push Iran toward nuclear talks and worked against Swiss bank secrecy used by wealthy Americans.

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U.S. representative who says he is a conservative voice for Southwest Virginia.

His campaign says he grew up in Salem with values of hard work, belief in God, and serving neighbors. It says he has dedicated his life to protecting constitutional freedoms and conservative family values.

• He says he makes no apology for defending the Second Amendment or the right to life.
• He says he has stood up to the Environmental Protection Agency and to regulations he calls job-killing.

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Cattle farmer and small-business owner running for Congress.

Her campaign says she is a fourth-generation cattle farmer, a Bedford County mother, and the owner of a family farm-equipment dealership who adopted her son Eli through foster care. She says she has taken on monopoly utilities, worked on rural health care and public education, and tried to protect farmland.

• Her HOME plan says health care should be close to home, with rural hospitals protected and more mental health, addiction treatment, and health workers.
• She says she would bring industries and small-business investment to the district, rebuild roads and broadband, and fight costs for housing, groceries, and energy.
• She says she would support teachers, modernize classrooms, and expand higher education and job training so people do not have to leave home for opportunity.

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Retired Air Force colonel running for Congress.

His campaign says he served 30 years in the Air Force, rose to colonel, and oversaw a $500 billion portfolio as a deputy assistant secretary of defense. He says he has lived in the 10th District for 17 years, is a two-time cancer survivor, and is a homeschool father of three.

• He says he would keep taxes low, cut regulations, and pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy, including nuclear power, to lower costs.
• He says Washington should not spend more than it takes in, and that he would eliminate wasteful spending and fight fraud.
• He says he would back law enforcement, defend constitutional rights, expand vocational training, and fight for timely veterans' health care without Washington dictating medical choices.

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U.S. representative for Virginia's 10th District.

Suhas Subramanyam's office says he is a lawyer who worked with technology startups, started a business, and advised the White House on technology policy. He served in the Virginia House and State Senate. He and his wife Miranda live in Loudoun County with their two daughters, and he has volunteered as a firefighter and EMT.

• He says that in the legislature he passed bills to lower the cost of tolls, utility bills, and prescription drugs, and bipartisan bills on K-12 education, taxes, and gun safety.

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Retired programmer and president of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance.

His campaign says he grew up in Washington, D.C., earned degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and moved to Vienna in 1976. He says he worked 40 years as a computer programmer and has been taxpayers-alliance president for 29 years.

• He says inflation is the tax people pay for government spending, and that chronic disease from ultra-processed food drives trillions in medical spending that could be cut without cutting programs.
• He says abortion takes a life, that it should stay legal in rare cases to save the mother, and that marriage should be encouraged.
• He says public schools should compete through vouchers, teach phonics and arithmetic, and post the Ten Commandments, and that immigrants should be vetted before they enter.

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U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th District.

He says he grew up in Prince William County, graduated from NYU, and lives in Fairfax with his wife, Yvette, and their son, Mateo. Before Congress he served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and was chief of staff to Representative Gerry Connolly for more than a decade. He says he was elected to Congress in 2025.

• He says housing, groceries, utilities, and child care are squeezing families, and he blames tariffs and a war with Iran for higher prices, including gas.
• He says he opposed those tariffs, is working to restore Congress's authority over trade, and cosponsored the Energy Bills Relief Act.
• He also says his work includes protecting federal workers, health care, Social Security and Medicare, and lowering costs for northern Virginia.

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