Hala Ayala (D) won the Democratic Party primary on June 8, 2021 to run for lieutenant governor of Virginia in the November 2, 2021, general election. The incumbent lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax (D), ran for governor, leaving the lieutenant governor election an open race. Ayala won with 39.1% of the vote, followed by Sam Rasoul (D) with 25.3%.[1]
Hala Ayala advanced from the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
Six candidates ran in this race: Ayala, Mark Levine, Andria McClellan, Sean Perryman, Rasoul, and Xavier Warren. Prior to the election, Ayala, Levine, and Rasoul all serve in the Virginia House of Delegates. McClellan was elected to the Norfolk City Council in 2015. Perryman's career experience includes working as the director of social impact at the Internet Association. Warren has worked as an NFL sports agent and lobbyist for nonprofit organization.
Rasoul led in fundraising as of the last filing period ending on March 31, 2021. Rasoul raised $1,289,220 and Levine raised the second-most money with $705,285 during the same period. Ayala, McClellan, and Rasoul led in endorsements. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) endorsed Ayala, U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria (D) endorsed McClellan, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) endorsed Rasoul. All three candidates received endorsements from a number of current Virginia state delegates and senators.
Key issues in the election that candidates differed on were climate change and criminal justice reform. While all candidates support transitioning to renewable energy, Levine and Rasoul said they supported a moratorium on future fossil fuel projects, and Perryman said he supported moving to halt the fossil fuel industry entirely.[2] Ayala and McClellan emphasized flood mitigation and reducing the energy burden in their climate change plans.[3] In addition to legalizing marijuana, abolishing the death penalty, and returning voting rights to released felons, which all candidates expressed support for, Rasoul said he supported repealing Virginia's felony murder laws.[4] McClellan disagreed with other candidates on removing police from public schools, saying that they instead need better training.[5] Read more about the candidates' positions on these issues and others here.
The lieutenant governor serves as the president of the Virginia State Senate and may cast tie-breaking votes. The lieutenant governor is first in the line of succession to the governor; in the event the governor dies, resigns, or otherwise leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor. Of the four lieutenant governors who have been elected since 2002, three were Democrats and one was a Republican.[6] Two of them, Tim Kaine (D) and Ralph Northam (D), went on to become governor. The lieutenant governor is popularly elected every four years by a plurality and, unlike the governor, may run for re-election.
This page focuses on Virginia's Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial primary. For more in-depth information on Virginia's Republican lieutenant gubernatorial convention and the general election, see the following pages:
Candidates and election results
Democratic primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Candidate profiles
This section includes candidate profiles created in one of two ways: either the candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey, or Ballotpedia staff compiled a profile based on campaign websites, advertisements, and public statements after identifying the candidate as noteworthy.[7]
Hala Ayala
Party:
Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office:
Virginia House of Delegates (Assumed office: 2018)
Biography: Ayala worked as a cybersecurity analyst for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2018 to represent District 51. She was part of former Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s (D) Council of Women.
Key Messages
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Ayala said she was "proud to lead the effort to pass the most progressive legislation in Virginia’s history, including marijuana legalization, the Virginia Clean Economy Act, and Governor Northam’s G3 program to help with college affordability and to promote job growth in our high-demand industries."
Ayala said she supports expanding Pre-K, reducing overcrowding in classrooms, and investing in school infrastructure.
Ayala said that as lieutenant governor, she would expand access to healthcare by implementing a state reinsurance program, strengthen Medicaid by creating a statewide Medicaid buy-in option, and provide financial support for struggling families.
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Mark Levine
Party:
Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office:
Virginia House of Delegates (Assumed office: 2016)
Biography: Levine attended Harvard University and Yale Law School. He served as Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank's (D) legislative counsel and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2015 to represent District 45.
Key Messages
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Levine said he supports universal pre-K education.
Levine said he would be a "full-time year-round Lieutenant Governor who is committed to meeting and listening to citizens throughout Virginia in order to solve your problems in both the Legislative and Executive branches."
Levine said his experience in the Virginia House of Delegates and founding the Virginia Transparency Caucus "prove I can get the job done."
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Andria McClellan
Party:
Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office:
Norfolk City Council (Assumed office: 2016)
Biography: McClellan received her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1991 and completed the Wharton Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. She worked in sales and marketing, and was appointed chairwoman of the Virginia Small Business Advisory Board by Gov. Mark Warner (D). She was elected to the Norfolk City Council in 2016.
Key Messages
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McClellan said that addressing the climate crisis with a focus on environmental justice was one of her top priorities.
McClellan said that as a former entrepreneur and mentor for start-up companies, she understands the challenges facing small businesses.
McClellan said she would expand access to high speed internet and pointed to her experience overseeing the broadband fiber ring in Hampton Roads.
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Sean Perryman
Party:
Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "Perryman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Baruch College and a J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. Perryman's career experience includes working as the director of social impact at the Internet Association. He has been affiliated with the Fairfax County NAACP"
Key Messages
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It's time for 21st century government and economy that works for all Virginians rather than the powerful few. That goal requires leaders in Richmond who will do the right thing even when it's not politically expedient.
After a year of uprisings in support of Black lives, we need to elect progressive Black leaders who are ready to make structural change to our criminal justice system.
Virginia has been ranked the worst state in the nation for workers. We need to invest in and empower our working class so our economy can thrive for everyone.
S. Rasoul
Party:
Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office:
Virginia House of Delegates (Assumed office: 2014)
Biography: Rasoul was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2013 to represent District 11 and has worked as a healthcare consultant.
Key Messages
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Rasoul said he thinks campaign finance reform is the most important legislative issue in Virginia and he is the "only member of the Virginia House of Delegates to refuse PAC donations in 2017, and every dollar into our campaign comes from individuals only."
Rasoul proposed what he called the Virginia Marshall Plan for Moms that would include child care for all, paid family and medical leave for every worker, and higher wages.
As part of his position on criminal justice reform, Rasoul said he supports ending no-knock warrants, abolishing the death penalty, ending qualified immunity, and legalizing marijuana use.
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Xavier Warren
Party:
Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Biography: Warren completed a bachelor’s degree at Hampton University and a master’s degree in sports management from Georgetown University. He worked as an NFL sports agent and lobbyist for Congressional partners, an organization that aids non-profits in acquiring federal grants.
Key Messages
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For economic recovery, Warren said that he supports tailoring efforts to the needs of each region of the state as opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach.
Warren says he views the role of lieutenant governor as a business position and that he would be "our spokesperson and really market Virginia for jobs to come in, to bring in high-wage jobs, new jobs, and that will also support small businesses."
Warren said that he was running for lieutenant governor because "Virginia is in a COVID-19 crisis, a racial crisis, a climate crisis and an economic crisis."
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Noteworthy primary endorsements
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Timeline
- April 26, 2021: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam endorsed Ayala.[71]
- April 17, 2021: Elizabeth Guzman suspended her campaign for lieutenant governor, saying that she "made the difficult decision to suspend our historic campaign to focus on the House of Delegates race."[72]
- April 15, 2021: New campaign finance reports filed with the Virginia State Board of elections showed Rasoul leading in fundraising with $1,289,220 in available funds.
- March 25, 2021: The filing date for this election passed.[73]
Campaign themes
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Hala Ayala
Campaign website
Ayala’s campaign website stated the following:
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- When Hala’s son was born, her job at the time offered no health insurance. When her newborn son experienced health complications, Hala was able to get care through Medicaid -- and it saved his life. That’s why she’s fighting for access to affordable healthcare for all Virginians.
- In 2018, Hala made good on her campaign promise as a deciding vote in the House of Delegates to expand Medicaid to more than 400,000 Virginians and stood up against Republican attempts to repeal protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Hala was so proud to stand with Governor Northam, activists, and her colleagues during this historic moment.
- COVID-19 has laid bare so many inequities in our healthcare system, and we must take steps to address access to care for those who have been hardest hit during this public health crisis. That’s why Hala co-patron legislation to expand our Commonwealth’s vaccine capacity, cap the price of insulin and inhalers at $50, expand access to telehealth, and provide transparency in prescription drug costs.
- We have made great strides in providing healthcare for Virginians, but there is still so much work to be done. As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will ensure Medicaid funding is continued and work to expand access to coverage for all communities. She will also work with the Federal Government to increase subsidies and lower premiums, and work to lower the cost of prescription drugs because no family should be one sickness away from bankruptcy.
- Hala knows firsthand how thin that bridge is between struggle and success for so many Virginians. After her family struggled when she was a child and barely making ends meet working at a gas station when her own first child was born, she was able to build a successful career with just a few college credits and a government certification training, working in national security as a cyber specialist with the Department of Homeland Security.
- As Virginia charges ahead into the 21st century, we need to invest in building and training our workforce to make sure our citizens have the skills they need to be successful no matter the color of their skin or gender. Hala’s successful career in one of the sectors leading Virginia’s economy into the future makes her uniquely qualified to oversee this transition as Lieutenant Governor.
- When Hala’s son was born, he had severe health issues that required intensive care, and she did not have access to paid leave through her job at the gas station. Having access to paid family and medical leave would have been life-changing. That is why Hala patroned the paid family and medical legislation, which would provide every Virginian worker with 12 weeks of paid leave for major events such as an adoption or childbirth. A majority of small business owners even backed her legislation because they know that this would help their workers and their bottom lines.
- We need to focus on an inclusive economy that ensures every Virginian can put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. The economic stresses so many families face have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for Black and Brown Virginians. The cost of living is rising here in Virginia, and our minimum wage needs to keep up. Furthermore, our Commonwealth needs to invest in affordable housing and combat the economic factors that price families out of neighborhoods they’ve lived in for generations.
- Hala’s son is a member of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and works at a local grocery store on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. So many Virginians have made sacrifices to get a paycheck during this crisis, and we need to do so much more to protect our workers. That’s why Hala introduced a bill mandating hazard pay for essential workers to ensure they get the support they need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will lead the recovery to make sure Virginians can return to work safely and provide small business owners with the support they need to recover.
- Hala grew up attending Prince William public schools and is the former president of her local parent-teacher organization. She graduated from Woodbridge High, where her kids also attended.
- As Delegate, Hala has strengthened our schools and helped our teachers and administrators to ensure our children are getting the best education possible. In the General Assembly, she authored budget amendments to increase funding for special education students, like her son. She also introduced a budget amendment to give teachers a well-deserved 2% pay raise to ensure the best talent can remain in the Commonwealth.
- Schools are the building blocks to success for Virginia’s future, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more clear we need to focus our energy on giving our teachers and students the tools they need. We need to give our teachers resources to work with students who have a range of needs, and we need to retain and recruit the best teachers we can.
- As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will focus heavily on our education system. She will work with the Administration and General Assembly to expand Pre-K, reduce overcrowding in classrooms, and invest in school infrastructure.
- Hala also understands that every families’ path to prosperity looks different. In 2013, she completed her college degree online, leveraging tuition assistance from her employer, while working full time — so she knows from personal experience how challenging it can be to get a college degree, and the financial barriers that make this unrealistic for so many Virginians. As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will support measures to make college more affordable for all Virginians as well as lead the charge to create and improve training programs for those who choose not to attend a four-year college. In the General Assembly, Hala co-patroned legislation to establish Governor Northam’s G3 program--Get Skilled, Get a Job, and Give Back. This program provides 2 years of free community for students who train in high demand professions like information technology and medicine. Right now we have thousands unfilled, high-paying jobs in Northern Virginia. The G3 program will create a pipeline to fill these positions and ensure equity in our education system. As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will support an expansion of this program as well as increased funding apprenticeship and internship programs, as well as career and technical education certificates. We need to increase funding for these programs throughout the state to show that successful career paths come in many different routes.
- Transportation and infrastructure
- As a single mom who commuted over two, and sometimes three, hours everyday to work for years, Hala understands firsthand the balancing act so many families in Virginia face when it comes to getting to work and caring for their families.
- In the House of Delegates, Hala worked to increase funding for the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) and Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC) so commuters would have viable alternative transportation options.
- However, this daily disruption extends past the D.C Metro area and Northern Virginia. Our transportation issues impact so many commuters in the Richmond and Hampton Roads metro areas as well. Across Virginia, our aging infrastructure makes it harder for our citizens to prosper. We need to invest in our Commonwealth and address infrastructure needs in rural, suburban, and urban communities.
- Hala recognizes this is a quality of life issue for so many Virginians and that is why as Lieutenant Governor she will work to expand and improve public transportation, and invest in rebuilding our historic bridges, roads, and highways.
- Investing in infrastructure also requires a digital component. As we saw during COVID-19, internet access has become a necessity for so many occupations, and especially K-12 schooling, and it must be accessible to all Virginians. As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will be focused on bridging the digital divide in our state that affects so many Virginians. Broadband access is a matter of equity and as a cybersecurity expert, Hala is uniquely positioned to lay the foundation for extensive and scalable broadband access.
- Hala is a woman of color and the mother of two Black children and is acutely aware of the painful systemic racism and injustices that have plagued our justice system for centuries. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests, Hala joined her community and marched for justice.
- We need reforms to ensure accountability and transparency and to prevent uses of excessive force that have led to the unjustified deaths of Black and Brown men, women, and children. To move forward as a Commonwealth, we must reform our justice system, create alternatives to the school to prison pipeline.In the 2020 special session, Hala worked with her colleagues in the Black Caucus to present an aggressive legislative agenda addressing criminal justice reform in the Commonwealth. This includes banning no knock warrants, creating civilian review boards, establishing a statewide code of conduct for police officers, and mandating racial bias, de-escalation, and crisis intervention training for police.
- This session, Hala worked with her colleagues and leadership in the General Assembly to continue advocating for criminal justice reform. She co-patroned several pieces of legislation, including bills to legalize marijuana, to abolish the death penalty, to automatically expunge non-violent marijuana offenses, and to restore rights to our returning citizens.
- There is a lot of work to do to heal the wounds that still exist in our Commonwealth from the legacy of slavery and the violence that Black and Brown Americans experience every day. As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will lead the way on these reforms and use her national security background to make sure every community is safe and help our communities begin to heal.
- As a lifelong Virginian, Hala has a deep appreciation for the diverse geography and wildlife of the Commonwealth. From the Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia is home to some of the most beautiful sights in the nation. With over 60 state and national parks, our natural resources are the pride and joy of our Commonwealth.
- But climate change poses a real threat to our waterways and mountains, our public health, and our way of life. Flooding and coastal erosion threatens our homeowners and small businesses and one bad storm could wipe out someone’s life savings. Furthermore, the effects of climate change disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities and in addressing environmental matters, we need to view them through a racial equity lens.
- Climate change is also a national security threat. Virginia is home to 27 military bases, many of them coastal. We cannot leave the fate of our military to rising sea levels.
- In the House of Delegates, Hala worked closely with environmental activists and stakeholders to codify Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), bringing millions of dollars to the Commonwealth for coastal resiliency and to combat climate change. She also was a co-patron on the Virginia Clean Economy Act. This landmark environmental legislation will create nearly 13,000 jobs per year in Virginia’s Advanced Energy economy, eliminates all harmful carbon emissions from Virginia utilities by 2050, and expands access to solar and wind energy. Nearly 3 out of 4 Virginians supported this legislation.
- We must act quickly to combat climate change, and as Lieutenant Governor, Hala is ready to continue her work in this area. Hala will work to ensure our Commonwealth can transition to clean energy like solar and wind, protect communities who are impacted by flooding, and make sure every Virginian has access to clean air and clean drinking water.
- Hala has spent almost a decade as a women’s rights activist. She helped organize Virginia’s participation in the Women’s March after Donald Trump’s election and founded the Prince William chapter of the National Organization for Women. In 2020, she was the Chief co-patron on the bill that made Virginia the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to help enshrine women’s equality into the U.S. Constitution.
- While we have made great strides in creating a more equitable Virginia for women, there is much work to be done, especially for Black and Brown women. That’s why Hala introduced a bill to help address fetal and infant mortality rates throughout the Commonwealth, with a focus on racial disparities. She also is fighting for paid family leave, because no one should worry about what happens to their job if they need to care for a loved one or newborn baby..
- As Lieutenant Governor, Hala will continue to fight for women’s health care. She will work to expand access to birth control and contraception, and defend a woman's right to choose. Furthermore, she will support policies and legislation that will create equity in the workplace and ensure equal pay for equal work, so women who work the same job as men can earn the same living.[74]
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Mark Levine
Campaign website
Levine’s campaign website stated the following:
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- Expand Affordable Health Care
- Mark helped expand Medicaid to more than 400,000 Virginians and has been a leader on reducing healthcare costs for Virginians.
- Mark is staunchly pro-choice. Reproductive healthcare - including abortions - is healthcare, and access to healthcare is a fundamental human right. Every person deserves freedom over their body and their reproductive decisions. Mark was proud to co-patron successful legislation removing politically-motivated medically-unnecessarily obstacles designed to restrict patients from receiving reproductive healthcare and abortion, such as ultrasounds, 24-hour delay, counseling on alternatives, and unnecessary regulation of abortion clinics as hospitals. He was also proud to co-patron successful legislation rolling back the ban on abortion coverage in health insurance on the state healthcare exchange
- Mark has a record of taking on right-wing extremists to protect women’s reproductive freedom, and has continuously been a champion for legislation to guarantee equal pay for equal work. He supports the Equal Rights Amendment. Mark has written bills to protect survivors of domestic violence and their children (click here for details) and he will continue his work to end the scourge of violence against women.
- As the son of a first-grade public school teacher, Mark believes that universal Pre-K is the foundation for all education. He believes in reforming Standards of Learning tests to emphasize critical thinking instead of teaching to the test. Mark thinks college must be more affordable by incentivizing institutions of higher education to stop runaway tuition increases. Mark also thinks it is important to expand broadband internet access in rural Virginia, click here for the details.
- No full-time worker should be living in poverty. Mark believes it is time to raise Virginia’s $7.25 minimum wage and increase the $2.13 minimum wage for tipped workers. He wants to expand access to affordable housing, and fight to shut down predatory pay-day lenders, click here for his bill details.
- Take Action Against Climate Change
- Mark supports investment in clean energy and green jobs. He knows our dependence on fossil fuels is bad for both the environment and, ultimately, our economy, and supports off-shore wind farms. He demands transparency and accountability from Dominion Power to protect the public interest.
- Mark knows that union jobs pay better and are safer and can be counted on to stand in solidarity with workers trying to organize. Mark will always defend the right of workers to organize for better pay and working conditions.
- Mark advocates for Northern Virginia transportation dollars remain here to improve our roads, bridges, and mass transit. Click here to learn more about Mark's bill to protect transportation funding.
- Mark wants to require universal criminal and mental-health background checks and to ban high-capacity magazines and assault weapons. He supports re-instituting the limit of private gun purchases to one per month.
- Advance Civil Liberties for All Virginians
- Mark wrote the law that brought marriage equality to Washington, D.C. in 2010, and then defended that law in court to stop a referendum on the civil rights of same-sex partners. Mark is a long-standing champion for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to make sure that LGBT Virginians are not discriminated against for whom they love. Click here for information about Mark's bill, the Virginia Human Rights Act.
- He fights to reverse GOP voter suppression that disproportionately effects poor, young, elderly, and minority voters. Mark believes we should make it as easy to vote as possible, with same-day registration, extended, no-fault absentee voting, and automatic registration when citizens sign up for driver’s licenses.
- Mark supports requiring Virginia police to wear body cameras to assist in gathering evidence, protect the public interest, and ensure the safety of citizens. Mark's body camera bill was supported by the Sheriff's Association, the Fraternal Order of Police and the NAACP (click here for details).
- Reforming our Criminal Justice System
- Considering our underfunded school system and the disastrous futility of the drug war (especially in minority communities) Mark strongly believes it is time for a re-thinking of our priorities. Mark supports the legalization, commercialization, and taxation of marijuana, so Virginia will stop spending millions of dollars locking up non-violent adults for smoking marijuana. Mark sought to compromise this year and introduced a bill legalizing medical marijuana, click here for more information.
- While the recent ethics reform in Richmond was a start, there is much more work to be done to mitigate the influence of corporate and special interests in our Commonwealth. Mark is on the record as saying our current system, in which campaign contributions are unlimited, allows for “legal bribery.”
- Mark also supports public financing for campaigns, so candidates and elected officials can focus on talking to constituents, not donors.[74]
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Andria McClellan
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- Tackling the Climate Crisis
- Every Virginian deserves access to a safe, sustainable environment. However, across Virginia, worsening effects of climate change are exceedingly visible – from rising sea levels, to devastating storms to unhealthy heat islands in our urban areas – and present long-term threats to our economy, health and future. And, decades of segregation, redlining, and historical underinvestment in infrastructure means that many communities of color are paying an even higher cost in this climate crisis.
- With local, state and national experience addressing our climate crisis, in both climate change mitigation and adaptation, Andria is equipped with the skills necessary to push for access to a cleaner, greener and healthier Virginia for everyone.
- Expanding Access to High Speed Internet
- Access to affordable, reliable, high-speed internet service is critical to every Virginian for work, for school, for accessing health care, for agriculture, and, recently, for pre-registering for a COVID vaccine. This pandemic has shown that the digital divide is very real and growing. Low-income urban neighborhoods and rural areas are falling behind at faster rates on access to affordable broadband, and we simply cannot allow these disparities to persist.
- In a 21st Century Virginia, access to high-speed internet is an imperative. Moreover, for Virginia to grow and attract economic development, we must strive to become the most connected state in the nation.[74]
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Sean Perryman
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- COVID-19 Containment and Relief
- WE NEED LEADERSHIP THAT CAN MANAGE OUR RECOVERY FROM THE PANDEMIC RESPONSIBLY AND MAKE SURE EVERYBODY STAYS AFLOAT.
- With more and more vaccinations being administered every day, we have reason to be optimistic about the end of this devastating pandemic. That being said, we still have to remain vigilant by encouraging people to mask up, socially distance, and test while waiting for their vaccine.
- We also have to recognize that it will be impossible to simply go back to ‘normal’ when we try to put COVID-19 behind us. The pandemic has exposed and deepened deep inequalities and flaws in our government, economy, and society that need our attention. My campaign is committed to not just building back to where we were, but building back better, fairer, and more equitably than before—and that’s reflected across our policy platform.
- UNTIL THIS PANDEMIC IS COMPLETELY OVER, OUR CAMPAIGN WILL PROVIDE COMMUNITY RESOURCES TO SUPPORT VIRGINIANS TO FIND ACCESSIBLE PLACES TO GET VACCINATED OR TESTED FOR CORONAVIRUS.
- Reimagining Policing and Criminal Justice
- A MORE COMPASSIONATE MODEL FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PUTS REHABILITATION OVER INCARCERATION AND WORKS TO END THE LEGACY OF RACISM IN OUR SYSTEM.
- The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor reignited the Black Lives Matter movement. Communities across America are grappling with the persistent racism in our justice system. For decades, our legislators, our courts, and our law enforcement have viewed incarceration as a solution to our societal problems.
- Virginia held on to a legal code that was born out of the Jim Crow era. Our laws emphasize punishment and criminalization over rehabilitation and restoration. Instead of treating crime as the result of systemic failures, we’re creating never-ending cycles of incarceration. We can create a better way to ensure public safety with justice, transparency, and accountability.
- MY AGENDA FOR REIMAGINING PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE INCLUDES:
- Legalizing cannabis possession immediately, automatically expunging past cannabis convictions, freeing those incarcerated only for cannabis-related crimes, driving the benefits of the new cannabis markets to communities disproportionately impacted by marijuana prohibition, and investing new state revenues into our education system.
- Ending mandatory minimums so that judges can use their discretion and ensure sentences fit the circumstances of each case.
- Defelonizing all drugs, so that addiction and drug dependence is treated as a public health crisis rather than a criminal matter.
- Ending the disenfranchisement of incarcerated Virginians.
- Ending cash bail and reforming pre-trial detention to stop putting Virginians – who are presumed innocent under the law but can’t afford to buy their freedom – in jail.
- Banning private prisons.
- Investing in mental health, housing, and education rather than jails, prisons, and police.
- Ending Qualified Immunity for police officers so Virginia’s law enforcement can be held accountable for their misconduct.
- Creating a true parole system for Virginia.
- Reassigning duties like routine traffic stops, assisting the unhoused, and mental health crisis intervention to civil servants other than police.
- Removing armed ‘Student Resource Officers’ from our schools and tackling the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Empowering public defenders in every locality to successfully perform their important role in the court system.
- An Economy that Works for All
- OUR ECONOMY SHOULD GUARANTEE FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND A HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL AND NOT JUST THOSE AT THE TOP.
- It’s no coincidence that in the same year Virginia was ranked the best state for business, we were also ranked the worst state for workers. Big businesses and those at the top have reaped the gains of Virginia’s rapid economic growth, and the multi-racial working class has been left behind.
- In recent years, the costs of housing, healthcare, childcare, and higher education have skyrocketed while wages have barely budged. Black, brown, and low-income neighborhoods lack basic access to transportation, quality schools, and even healthy food, water, and air. Rural Virginians have seen good-paying jobs consolidate to a few successful areas of the Commonwealth without any tools to even the playing field. Women, and especially women of color, go underpaid compared to their men colleagues.
- We didn’t make this two-tiered economy through inaction. We made it through deliberate policies that cater to the interests of the privileged few. In the race to be a ‘business-friendly’ state, we’ve forgotten that our economic agenda needs to focus on making Virginia a more affordable, healthy, and prosperous place to live for all. Investing in our working class is a surefire way to create a competitive economy where everyone who contributes to our Commonwealth’s success can benefit from it.
- MY VISION FOR VIRGINIA’S ECONOMY INCLUDES:
- Strengthening the ability of workers to organize by repealing the so-called “Right to work” law that hurts workers and keeps wages low.
- Extending the right to collectively bargain to all public sector employees.
- Ensuring Virginia’s minimum wage is raised to keep up with the true cost of living over time.
- Guaranteeing paid sick, family, and parental leave for all Virginians.
- Investing in public education through equitable funding, more support staff, and competitive pay for teachers.
- Providing affordable childcare and universal PreK to all of Virginia’s parents.
- Expanding Medicaid to cover more working class Virginians, offering a public option through a controlled state insurance exchange, and pushing for a federal Medicare-for-all system.
- Creating thousands of new affordable housing units and promoting planning and zoning changes that address decades of racial and economic segregation in Virginia’s neighborhoods.
- Strengthening tenants’ rights and protecting renters from eviction.
- Empowering rural Virginia with green jobs in the infrastructure and technology sectors, improved connectivity, state funding for rural schools, and universal broadband.
- Realigning our tax code to promote families and small businesses rather than big corporations.
- Providing the Virginia Employment Commission with the resources necessary to ensure no one is left behind by our unemployment insurance system.
- Stopping the Climate Crisis in its Tracks
- OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE. IT'S TIME TO MAKE VIRGINIA A NATIONAL LEADER ON CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND FURTHERING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.
- We are in a climate emergency and the evidence is all around us. Hurricanes intensify, wildfires rage, flood waters rise, cities bake—and still politicians refuse to take any bold action that could upset fossil fuel interests and corporate polluters.
- What’s worse is that there’s consistent proof that climate change and environmental neglect is affecting poor, Black, and brown communities the most, worsening existing inequities in health, housing security, and more. Meanwhile, public utilities who have monopolized the energy sector dominate Virginia’s politics and profit off of Virginians without adequate regulation.
- The Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) was signed into law in 2020 to put Virginia on a track to phase out fossil fuels by 2045. But the truth is we’ve wasted so much time failing to address this crisis that we have no choice but to fight for a plan that is more aggressive than the VCEA’s compromise approach. That’s why I back a Virginia Green New Deal.
- A Virginia Green New Deal would work to decarbonize our economy, provide good-paying green jobs for affected communities, and ensure a liveable future for my daughter’s generation.
- MY PROPOSAL INCLUDES:
- Accelerating the VCEA’s timeline to reach 100% renewable energy sources by 2035, including a true phase out of natural gas and natural gas pipelines in favor of wind and solar.
- Enforcing a moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure in Virginia.
- Investing in clean public transit such as subways, regional rail, buses, bicycling networks, and sidewalks, and adopting policies that encourage adopting of these alternatives to driving.
- Investing in technical education, green jobs, and resiliency projects for communities affected by climate change and the clean energy transition.
- Creating fair regulations and election reforms that can curb the political influence and profit-seeking of public utilities.
- Promoting smart local land use for housing, commercial, and agriculture that can slash carbon emissions and harmful sprawl.
- Leading the nation in research, development, and implementation of new sustainable technology and agriculture.
- Promoting public green spaces and natural preservation.
- Ensuring labor rights are protected during the transition to a clean energy economy.
- Good Government, by and for the People
- VIRGINIANS DESERVE A MODERN, 21ST CENTURY GOVERNMENT THAT INVOLVES THEM DIRECTLY IN A FAIR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
- As a former investigator who worked with Rep. Elijah Cummings on the US House Oversight Committee, I have a passion for honest government that is rooted in service and integrity. One glance at Virginia’s system of elections and lawmaking reveals deep flaws that rig the game against regular people who want to be active participants in their democracy.
- Our “anything goes” campaign laws allow big corporations and wealthy donors to contribute unlimited amounts of money to political candidates and make their voices the loudest on the critical issues facing our Commonwealth. Political campaigns and their donors lack transparency to the public. Although we’ve made groundbreaking progress on securing the right to vote, there’s more we can do to shake the legacy of voter disenfranchisement.
- Virginia’s General Assembly, where all laws are written at the state-level, is stuck in an 18th century model of legislating, where our Delegates and Senators are part-time officials who are only expected to be in Richmond a few months out of the year.When the General Assembly is open for session, legislators have to cram extremely complex and consequential decisions into a small window of time with limited resources, which leaves regular people like you and me crowded out of the process and without the constituent services we deserve.
- Both the successes and failures of other states that have reformed their processes show us that there is a common sense way forward for Virginia.
- THAT INCLUDES:
- Getting big money out of politics with serious campaign finance reform, including reasonable contribution limits, bans on contributions from public utilities, and restrictions on what campaign funds can be spent on.
- Modernizing Virginia’s government and professionalizing the General Assembly, allowing Delegates and Senators to treat their duties to the people as a full time job while removing barriers to public service.
- Establishing stronger transparency and ethics standards for government officials to be held accountable to.
- Protecting and expanding voting access for all Virginians, including providing funding to support fully automatic voter registration.
- Finding a lasting solution to the redistricting process that ensures districts are representative of the real communities they encompass.
- Providing voters a stipend through the tax code to give to campaigns of their choice and help level the playing field for candidates without wealthy donor connections.
- Moving towards ranked choice voting that gives Virginians more freedom to vote for candidates they believe in.
- Protecting our Commonwealth and the vote with cybersecurity leadership.
- TRUE EQUITY IS A CONSTANT DEDICATION TO UNDERSTANDING AND TACKLING THE UNIQUE DISADVANTAGES THAT MANY VIRGINIANS FACE.
- Virginia’s legacy as the capital of the confederacy isn’t as far in the past as some would like to think. It wasn’t until just months ago that statues of confederate generals who fought to enslave Black people started coming down in our Commonwealth.
- We shouldn’t be surprised that Virginia’s state policies have historically been stacked against women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and anyone else who’s had to fight for their right to exist and prosper.
- Virginia has made a lot of progress in a short amount of time to become a more equitable Commonwealth, but there’s still more progress to be made.
- THAT INCLUDES:
- Enshringing the constitutional right to choose to have an abortion and ensuring affordable and accessible reproductive and contraceptive care.
- Closing gaps in outcomes for LBGTQ Virginians in mental health, education, housing security, and policing.
- Guaranteeing gender-affirming healthcare for transgender Virignians.
- Addressing gun violence by prohibiting domestic abusers and perpetrators of hate crimes from purchasing firearms, banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and establishing meaningful waiting periods for gun purchases that can curb impulsive acquisition of weapons.
- End all cooperation between ICE and the Commonwealth to ensure our immigrant friends and neighbors are safe in their communities.
- Reforming Virginia’s approach to healthcare by advocating for raising or eliminating income and asset caps for SSI recipients, raising new funding for Medicaid waivers, and reforming the waiting list system so that Virginians with the most need aren’t left behind.
- Eliminating subminimum wages for people with disabilities.
- Combatting hate crime through community-based data reporting, condemning bigoted rhetoric regardless of party, rejecting policies that target marginalized communities, and passing robust anti-discrimination laws.
- Decriminalize sex work and ensure sex workers are safe from violence.
- Removing the last of Virginia’s Confederate statues and memorials to slavery.
- Recognizing our place on stolen land and working towards justice for indigenuos Virginians.
- Supporting Black-, brown- and women-owned small businesses.
- Bringing high-skill jobs training to poor and rural communities by improving access to vocational schools, funding apprenticeship programs, and improving educational attainment in public schools.[74]
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S. Rasoul
Campaign website
Rasoul’s campaign website stated the following:
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- High-Quality, Affordable Health Care Regardless of Zip Code
- Simply put, every Virginian should have access to high-quality, affordable health care. Hard-working Virginians should have the freedom and security to both pay their bills and take their child to the doctor.
- After a decade of experience working in health care, and serving as Vice Chair of the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee in the House of Delegates, Sam understands that we need real solutions now. This year, his bill to expand the scope of treatment by pharmacists passed the General Assembly, allowing Virginians without a general physician to access basic care, including vaccinations.
- Health care is more than just the right to be insured. It’s about having equal access to quality providers, and ensuring that all workers have paid family and medical leave so they can afford to access care when they are sick without financial concern. It’s about lowering the outrageous costs of prescription drugs, integrating mental health into health care, and making addiction treatment affordable for all so people can get back on their feet.
- This pandemic has taught us that health care is a collective concern, not an individual one. Our commonwealth can lead the way nationwide in making health care a basic right, and Sam has the experience to get us there.
- Virginia Marshall Plan for Moms
- After the onset of COVID-19 and the closing of many of our schools and child care centers, millions of moms were forced to leave the workforce and assume the primary role as caregivers for both their parents and children. In December 2020, the U.S. economy lost a net of 140,000 jobs. All of them were held by women.
- This crisis has given us the opportunity and obligation to address this growing inequity. When we consider policies to rebuild our Commonwealth, we must take into account the impact COVID-19 had on moms, especially moms of color, from the wages lost to the career advancement forgone to the barriers to reentering the workforce after women have been forced to leave it.
- It’s time for a Virginia Marshall Plan for Moms that includes child care for all, paid family and medical leave for every worker and a living wage.
- Supporting Older Virginians and Lowering Drug Prices
- The public health crisis and economic crisis of the last year have had an acute effect on older Americans nationwide and Virginia is no exception. As we all know, the COVID-19 is more deadly for people ages 65 and older, with over one-third of COVID deaths occurring in nursing homes.
- Older Virginians are also facing problems that began well before the pandemic. About 23 percent of Virginia residents stopped taking a prescribed medication because of cost in 2017.
- As Lieutenant Governor, Sam will stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical middlemen that jack up prices. He will use his experience in bringing the PACE program to Roanoke to increase the independence and mental health of older Virginians. And he will build on the successful passage of his budget amendment to bring UVA’s Family Nurse Practitioner program to Wise, VA to expand Virginia’s caregiving workforce in the places we need it most.
- A Green New Deal for Virginia Centered on Economic, Social, & Environmental Justice
- Sam co-sponsored the Green New Deal Act to lay the groundwork for intersectional policies that will lower energy bills, create 200,000 jobs and improve the quality of life for every community in Virginia. A Green New Deal is not just about climate justice -- it’s also about the intersection of economic justice, racial justice, health care justice and worker justice.
- As a legislator, Sam has fought to:
- Enact a Green New Deal that gets Virginia to 100% clean energy by 2036
- Establish a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects. The future of Virginia’s economy is clean energy, not more pipelines.
- Create a just transition for fossil fuel workers into high-paying clean energy jobs
- Declare a climate crisis in Virginia
- Make sure fossil fuel companies and polluters, not regular Virginians, pay for the damage they’ve caused, especially in communities of color
- Ban donations from state-regulated utilities like Dominion
- Education and Holistic Child Development
- When teachers do well, students do well. When students do well, our commonwealth has a bright future. As a product of the Roanoke Valley’s public schools, Sam understands investing in public education isn’t a choice. It’s a necessity.
- As Delegate, Sam has:
- Supported increasing teacher pay to surpass the national average. (Virginia currently ranks 32nd)
- Advocated for teachers to have the right to collectively bargain
- Supported capital investments to make our schools safe and equipped for 21st-century learning
- Passed legislation to move away from high stakes testing and toward holistic child development that focuses on social-emotional learning
- In addition to focusing on a child's cognitive development, we need to ensure we take a holistic approach to childhood growth. Studies show social-emotional learning is critical for building our children’s soft skills, and for developing their mental resilience. With a holistic approach, we can help our children to not merely survive, but to thrive.
- Sam’s bill, HB 753, passed in the General Assembly to require the Virginia Department of Education to develop effective implementation of social and emotional learning in public schools to replace and reduce current high-stakes standardized testing.
- Affordable, Reliable Broadband
- COVID-19 has made the need for equitable access to affordable broadband more urgent. Workers without a reliable internet connection in the home don’t have opportunities to work from home, and many of their children are falling behind their classmates in school who have broadband at home.
- Virginia residents from old to young rely on reliable, affordable internet as a way to connect with family and friends, get check-ups from their doctor and access medicine, and sustain their businesses.
- As Lieutenant Governor, Sam will continue to stand up to the big telecoms and work to get rid of their undue influence through corporate campaign donations and lobbying. He will build on the success of municipal broadband and independent co-ops to lower prices and improve service. And he will work to close the digital divide by making broadband affordable and increasing access in the communities, urban and rural, who have too often been left out.
- Uplifting Working Families & Main Street Businesses
- In recent years, Virginia ranked as the number one state for businesses, but the worst for workers. COVID-19 only made those worker conditions worse. As a small business owner, Sam knows how hard these establishments were hit during the pandemic. It’s crucial that we keep workers and small, Main Street businesses at the heart of our recovery.
- As a Delegate, Sam supported:
- Increasing Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 per hour and indexing it to future inflation
- Repealing the Right to Work laws, which prevent workers from collectively bargaining for pay and benefits, and making it easier to form a union.
- Collective bargaining for public sector unions
- Paid family and medical leave for every worker
- Expanded sick leave
- Fair scheduling
- Tax rebates for small businesses up to $25,000
- As Lieutenant Governor, Sam will stand up to large corporations who put their bottom line before the health and safety of their workers. He’ll fight for the small businesses that make our communities prosper.
- Equal Rights & Criminal Justice Reform
- Our criminal justice system has disproportionately affected people of color and low-income residents. In the wake of police-involved shootings, it’s more urgent than ever to change our court and law enforcement agencies to ensure Virginians receive equitable and just treatment.
- As a legislator, Sam has supported:
- Breonna’s Law, which eliminated no-knock warrants
- Going farther than restoring felon voting rights upon release and ensuring that the ability to vote is never taken away
- Repealing Felony Murder laws
- Requiring the release of body camera footage within 15 days in instances of police shootings
- Abolishing the death penalty
- Ending qualified immunity
- Legalizing marijuana use and investing tax revenue generated by cannabis sales back into communities most impacted by the failed War on Drugs
- Helping Virginians with Disabilities
- A society can only live up to its potential when there is equity among its citizens. Sam has seen time and time again that we leave people behind. It’s especially difficult for young people with disabilities when they age out of assistance programs only provided to minors. There are still too many barriers to education, work, and health care access for people with disabilities.
- Sam consistently fought for the expansion of disability waivers, one of the easiest ways to provide folks with assistance finding a job, independent living, and reliable transportation. He voted to increase the minimum wage of workers with certain disabilities. Sam has also pushed for affordable, safe housing opportunities that fit the unique needs of each person with disabilities.
- Fighting for Women, LGBTQ, Minority, & Religious Rights
- All Virginians should have the right to know they won’t be discriminated against based on who they love or how they worship. We have made great strides in Virginia in recent years, but the fight for true equality is far from over. We must continue to make progress toward equal rights for all Virginians. Sam will continue to advocate to preserve and expand protections and end harmful practices that disproportionately affect LGBTQ & minority communities.
- As a legislator, Sam:
- Supported the Equal Rights Amendment
- Fought for a woman’s right to choose
- Supported closing the gender pay gap
- Introduced legislation that protects domestic violence survivors from housing discrimination
- Supported removing the constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage
- Too many people still face discrimination and barriers in the workplace, and we must take every opportunity to stand up and fight for equality. There is much more work needed to do to ensure women are on equal footing in the Commonwealth.
- People's Platform Policies
- We know our democracy is healthiest when everyone has a seat at the table. That’s why we asked Virginians from across the Commonwealth to submit their ideas for progressive policy initiatives. This type of participatory lawmaking was at the heart of Sam’s “You Write the Bill” series, where participants learn how to write their own bills and lobby for them in the General Assembly. So far, three of these bills have become Virginia law.
- We’ve highlighted just a few of the many submissions we received. They include ideas to make voting more accessible, give small businesses tax breaks, and increase access to affordable health care.[74]
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Xavier Warren
Campaign website
Warren’s campaign website stated the following:
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Xavier Warren wants your vote to be Lieutenant Governor because Virginia is in a COVID-19 crisis, a racial crisis, a climate crisis, and an economic crisis that have caused:
- Hundreds of small businesses to close,
- Thousands of people to lose their jobs,
- One in three to suffer pay cuts,
- One in four to go hungry, and
- Many people to lose their homes due to evictions.
- Xavier has the experience to take on these challenges that while great, are not insurmountable.
- Here is Xavier’s Virginia Promise:
- “My focus is for every adult in the Commonwealth to have a job with a livable wage.”
- Beyond presiding over the State Senate and performing tie-breaking votes, the Lieutenant Governor serves on business committees that focuses on three things:
- Generating economic development,
- Advancing entrepreneurship, and
- Creating jobs.
- Economic Empowerment and Stability for All
- While some in Virginia thrive despite the pandemic, not everyone enjoys economic stability. Too many families have faced uncertainty, particularly insecurities regarding paycheck, housing, and of course, physical, and mental health.
- “Virginia lawmakers have made some incremental progress on the paid sick leave front. Workers need secure flexibility to take time off to care for themselves and their families. While many Virginia businesses small and large offer good benefits, many do not. We need to pass a comprehensive strategy for families.”
- Growing and maintaining a strong economy is always a priority. Xavier will focus on sound policy to continually build upon what we have.
- “Part of this is attracting new development while making sure our existing companies stay and thrive, and this includes large and small businesses. Another part is ensuring that all Virginia workers earn a livable wage. I fully support a $15 minimum wage.”
- Xavier Warren For Lt. Governor • 130 S Fern Street #2842 • Arlington, VA 22202
- www.xavierforvirginia.com • (571) 295-7277
- A critical part of any thriving economy is education. Virginia needs to investment in early childhood education, free certificates and associate degrees for PELL-eligible students, and to strengthen K-12 partnerships with our career and technical centers, community colleges, HBCUs, and Hispanic-serving institutions. Making sure we have a trained workforce means we will always be able to attract and retain good-paying jobs.
- Like every other state in America, Virginia is at a crossroads when it comes to race.
- “I’ll also focus on racial equity. We need to level the playing field — for access to opportunity, including fiscal opportunity, safety opportunity, housing opportunity and education opportunity.”
- Our young people need safe places to learn and grow. Virginia’s neighborhoods all need access to after school programs, parks, and community centers. Every neighborhood deserves good schools, affordable housing, and access to nutrition, shopping, and healthcare.
- Every public school in the Commonwealth deserves good resources like safe classrooms, top-notch equipment, and a diverse faculty with good teachers.[74]
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Campaign advertisements
This section shows advertisements released in this race. Ads released by campaigns and, if applicable, satellite groups are embedded or linked below. If you are aware of advertisements that should be included, please email us.
Hala Ayala
Supporting Ayala
Mark Levine
Supporting Levine
| "Every Fifteen Minutes" - Levine campaign ad, released June 1, 2021
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Andria McClellan
Supporting McClellan
| "Goes Back Generations" - McClellan campaign ad, released May 12, 2021
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| "Miya's Story" - McClellan campaign ad, released April 12, 2021
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| "Green Jobs" - McClellan campaign ad, released March 31, 2021
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| "Andria McClellan for Virginia" - McClellan campaign ad, released March 30, 2021
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| "Solar" - McClellan campaign ad, released March 28, 2021
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| "Andria for Virginia Lieutenant Governor" - McClellan campaign ad, released November 30, 2020
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Sean Perryman
Supporting Perryman
| "Clip: Steve Descano on why he's endorsed Sean Perryman" - Perryman campaign ad, released March 24, 2021
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| "Clip: Sean Perryman on Holding The Line" - Perryman campaign ad, released March 24, 2021
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| "Clip: Sean Perryman on Criminal Justice Reform" - Perryman campaign ad, released March 23, 2021
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| "Path Forward" - Perryman campaign ad, released February 1, 2021
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S. Rasoul
Supporting Rasoul
| "Essential" - Rasoul campaign ad, released May 13, 2021
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| "Virginia Grit: COVID Recovery With Harrisonburg Leaders" - Rasoul campaign ad, released May 11, 2021
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| "Standing With The Sikh Community" - Rasoul campaign ad, released May 13, 2021
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| "Helping Virginians Through Democratic Promise" - Rasoul campaign ad, released May 7, 2021
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| "Progress" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 27, 2021
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| "People-First Politics" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 13, 2021
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| "30 Days of Goodness: Prince William County" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 13, 2021
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| "Endorsed By My Third Grade Teacher" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 12, 2021
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| "A Campaign for all of Virginia" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 5, 2021
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| "Expanding Health Care Access in Virginia" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 1, 2021
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| "Meet Sam" - Rasoul campaign ad, released April 1, 2021
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| "Marshall Plan for Moms" - Rasoul campaign ad, released March 24, 2021
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| "Virginia Grit: Norton and Broadband Challenges" - Rasoul campaign ad, released March 19, 2021
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Campaign finance
The tables below contain data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA. Transparency USA tracks loans separately from total contributions. Learn more about this data here.
Debates and forums
- ABC 7News hosted a televised debate at George Mason University on May 25, 2021. Click here to watch the debate.
- The Virginia People's Debates hosted an online forum for Democratic candidates for Virginia lieutenant governor. Click here to watch the forum.
Primaries in Virginia
A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Virginia utilizes an open primary process in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[81]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Election history
The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2001.
2017
- See also: Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2017
Virginia held an election for lieutenant governor on November 7, 2017. Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam (D) was running for governor, leaving the lieutenant governor election an open race.
The general election took place on November 7, 2017. A primary election was held on June 13, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in the primary election was March 30, 2017.
Justin Fairfax (D) defeated Jill Holtzman Vogel (R) in the election for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.[82]
Justin Fairfax defeated Susan Platt and Gene Rossi in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.[83]
Jill Holtzman Vogel defeated Bryce Reeves and Glenn Davis in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.[83]
2013
General election
| Virginia Lieutenant Gubernatorial General Election, 2013 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
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Democratic |
 Ralph Northam |
55.1% |
1,213,155 |
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Republican |
E.W. Jackson |
44.5% |
980,257 |
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N/A |
Write-in |
0.3% |
7,472 |
| Total Votes |
2,200,884 |
| Election Results via Virginia State Board of Elections. |
Democratic primary election
| Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Democratic Primary Election, 2013 |
| Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
| Ralph Northam |
54.2% |
78,337 |
| Aneesh Chopra |
45.8% |
66,098 |
| Total Votes |
144,435 |
| Election results via Virginia State Board of Elections. |
See also
External links
- ↑ Washington Post, "2021 Virginia primary results," June 8, 2021
- ↑ Dogwood, "Lt. Governor Candidates Debate Climate, Housing, and Education," April 15, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, “Issues and Priorities,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Sam Rasoul for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, “People's Platform,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Dogwood, "Lt. Governor Candidates Debate Climate, Housing, and Education," April 15, 2021
- ↑ Encyclopedia Virginia, " Lieutenant Governors of Virginia," accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ In battleground primaries, Ballotpedia based its selection of noteworthy candidates on polling, fundraising, and noteworthy endorsements. In battleground general elections, all major party candidates and any other candidates with the potential to impact the outcome of the race were included.
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Inside Nova, "Levine wins newspaper endorsement in bid for lt. governor," May 11, 2021
- ↑ Washington Post, "Opinion: The Post’s endorsements in Virginia’s Democratic primary," May 24, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Nye endorses Andria McClellan in Democratic Party lieutenant governor race," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Susan Platt endorses Andria McClellan for Democratic Party lieutenant governor nomination," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Andria McClellan Announces New NOVA Endorsements," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander, Ph.D. Endorses Andria McClellan for Lieutenant Governor," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Blue Virginia, "Video: Delegate Hala Ayala’s Campaign for Lieutenant Governor Announces First Television and Radio Ad Buy ," April 27, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Perryman for Virginia, "Endorsements," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Blue Virginia, "Video: Delegate Hala Ayala’s Campaign for Lieutenant Governor Announces First Television and Radio Ad Buy ," April 27, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Perryman for Virginia, "Endorsements," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Lynwood Lewis backing Andria McClellan in Democratic lieutenant governor race," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Representative Elaine Luria Endorses Andria McClellan for Lieutenant Governor," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, "Senator Marsden Endorses Andria McClellan for Lt. Governor, Praising Her Local Government & Business Experience," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ NBC Washington, "Northam Endorses Prince William Co. Rep. Hala Ayala in Lt. Gov. Race," accessed April 26, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ {https://www.sam4va.com/endorse-sam Sam Rasoul for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021]
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ {https://perrymanforvirginia.com/endorsements/ Perryman for Virginia, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021]
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "The Latest," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ LGBTQ Victory Fund, "Victory Fund Endorses 30 LGBTQ Candidates for 2021 Cycle; Mark Levine Endorsed for VA Lieutenant Governor," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Inside NoVa, "Coalition of trade unions endorses Levine for lt. governor," May 26, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Rasoul for Lt. Governor, "Endorse Sam," accessed April 7, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Hala Ayala for Lt. Governor, "Endorsements," accessed May 13, 2021
- ↑ Inside NoVa, "Northam endorses Hala Ayala for lieutenant governor," April 26, 2021
- ↑ WFXR, "Elizabeth Guzman suspends campaign for Lt. Governor," April 17, 2021
- ↑ InsideNova, "Virginia statewide filing deadline is March 25," March 22, 2021
- ↑ 74.0 74.1 74.2 74.3 74.4 74.5 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Hala for Virginia, “On the Issues,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Mark Levine's campaign website, “Mark on the Issues,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Andria for Virginia, “Issues and Priorities,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Sean Perryman's campaign website, “On the Issues,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Sam Rasoul for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, “People's Platform,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Xavier for Virginia, “Xavier Warren’s Virginia Promise For A Fresh Start,” accessed April 14, 2021
- ↑ Virginia Legislative Information System, "Va. Code § 24.2–530," accessed September 16, 2025
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "List of Statewide Candidates," October 17, 2017
- ↑ 83.0 83.1 Virginia Department of Elections, "2017 Primary Filing," accessed May 12, 2017
