Nick Clemente (Virginia)
Nick Clemente (Republican Party) ran for election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 10. He lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Clemente completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2021
See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2021
General election
General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 10
Incumbent Wendy Gooditis defeated Nick Clemente in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 10 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Wendy Gooditis (D) | 50.9 | 21,229 |
 | Nick Clemente (R)  | 48.9 | 20,408 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 57 | ||
| Total votes: 41,694 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Wendy Gooditis advanced from the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 10.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Nick Clemente advanced from the Republican primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 10.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Clemente's endorsements in the 2021 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nick Clemente completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Clemente's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Nick began working in politics while in college. Shortly after his college graduation, he joined Thompson Advisory Group, serving as Government Affairs Coordinator until 2016. From 2016 to 2018, Nick worked as an Asset Manager at Comstock Companies. Since 2017, Nick is a member of the Potomac Valley Officiating Association, primarily working youth basketball and softball games. He serves as the Membership Director for the Virginia chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors since 2018, helping small businesses find ways to thrive in a struggling economy. Nick has also fought on behalf of small businesses during his service on the Leesburg Planning Commission. Nick’s passion is solving problems, helping others believe in themselves, and achieving more through positive thinking, bridge-building, and goal-setting. His own journey with dyslexia has taught him the importance of faith and family in overcoming challenges to make a positive difference. These experiences, coupled with the struggles students currently face in our district, have inspired his run for the Virginia House of Delegates.
Nick currently lives in the town of Leesburg.- Mental health permeates everyone’s life. All have experienced personal loss, and statistics show that in 2020 alone, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in Virginia and the 2nd leading cause for ages 10-34. This is a health crisis that needs to be addressed, and we must take action now. Nick will champion mental health awareness and work to bring in more funding for mental health solutions in Virginia.
- COVID-19 has exacerbated existing educational disparities and upended how students learn and interact. This has disproportionately affected special needs students, as well as those from lower-income households or rural communities without high-speed internet access. Nick will work to safely reopen schools and close the education gap by providing resources for all students regardless of learning abilities, race, background, or income level.
- Everyone has been affected by this pandemic. Many have had to choose between jobs and children, while others have had the choice made for them when their employers closed their businesses. Nick will help us recover from COVID-19 and ensure that no one is left behind in the process.
If you can’t afford mental health treatment, but then your government is telling you not to go to work or your child can’t go to school, the psychosocial well-being of people is detrimentally affected. This is the biggest individual liberty that has been under assault in the Commonwealth. The General Assembly should invest in mental health to be more accessible to Virginians.
Furthermore, our personal freedom and economic opportunity have been undermined. I don't have an issue with people joining unions, but I don’t think someone’s employment should be based on whether or not they are a part of a union. Being a right-to-work state is not anti-union. It’s just a way to preserve individual freedom as to whether a person decides to join or not join a union. Project labor agreements, which are when a government awards a construction contract exclusively to unionized firms, can be a burden on taxpayers.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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