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Salaam Bhatti
Salaam Bhatti (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Virginia's 1st Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Bhatti completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2026
See also: Virginia's 1st Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Virginia District 1
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 1 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Robert J. Wittman (R) | |
 | Elizabeth Beggs (D)  | |
 | Salaam Bhatti (D) | |
 | Tim Cywinski (D) | |
 | Lisa Khanna (D) | |
 | Jason Knapp (D) | |
 | Ericka Kopp (D) | |
| Andrew Lucchetti (D) | ||
 | Amanda Pohl (D) | |
| James Shea (D) | ||
 | Sean Sublette (D) | |
 | Shannon Taylor (D) | |
 | Melvin Tull (D) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Salaam Bhatti completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bhatti's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Unrig the System: Reform taxes so that teachers and nurses aren't paying more taxes than billionaires.
- Fighting for Working Families. Everything is increasing in cost and our wages are not keeping up. Meanwhile, the wealth inequality gap continues to increase. The time is now to fight for families by passing Medicare for All, strengthening our safety net and making it truly efficient, and providing paid parental leave & living wages.
- Rebuild trust. We cannot trust our elected officials to act in the people's interests if they're voting to maintain campaign funding from corporations/foreign interests, or if they're using information to increase their net worth. This is why I support banning Congressmembers from trading stocks, getting corporate PAC and foreign interest money out of politics, and ending the genocide in Gaza.
I’m committed to going beyond making health care affordable through supporting Medicare for All. We must strengthen accountability in government through campaign finance reform and ensure public policy is guided by liberty and justice for all - both at home and abroad.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Candidate U.S. House Virginia District 1 |
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