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Mark Warner
United States Senate

Mark Warner

U.S. Senator (Class 2 · seeking 4th term 2026)
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Incumbent
Currently running for U.S. Senate — Virginia. Primary 2026-08-04 · General 2026-11-03. This race → Compare against other candidates →
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
0 / 100
Raw: -20 of 18 dynamic max · 9 of 50 answered · -20 foreign-influence adjustment
Last verified: · from claim evidence
✝ God First 0/ 60
🇺🇸 America First 0/ 40
National Rank
#8,908 of 8,957 · bottom 0.5% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Score adjustments

Foreign-lobby money compromises America First. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel; AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures against U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. A candidate who has accepted that money has, in their own revealed preference, accepted a foreign-policy filter on their congressional vote. The same logic covers China-linked donations, where federal law also prohibits CCP members from contributing.

For every candidate with a documented donor record, two things happen: (1) the specific category question is marked False (foreign_policy_restraint[q4] for AIPAC + China; economic_stewardship[q5] — the WEF/ESG/Davos capture question — for Soros-network donors), so the per-category subscore drops by 2 points; (2) an additional dollar-bracket adjustment is applied to the total, making the penalty proportional to the magnitude of the funding. Both impacts are visible on this page.

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Base score 0/100 Adjusted -20/100

Contact This Official

📍 Local district offices (5)
Abingdon, VA · 276-628-8158 · 180 W. Main St., Room 235 24210
Norfolk, VA · 757-441-3079 · 101 W. Main St., Suite 7771 23510
Richmond, VA · 804-775-2314 · 919 E. Main St., Suite 630 23219
Roanoke, VA · 540-857-2676 · 120 Luck Avenue, SW, Suite 108 24011
Vienna, VA · 703-442-0670 · 8150 Leesburg Pike, Suite 700 22182

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Next Election
November 3, 2026
General · Seat up at next election
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
Elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections

Official Profile

Religion: Presbyterian
Education: George Washington University (BA), Harvard Law School (JD)
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana
Background: Telecom executive, venture capitalist, former Governor of Virginia
Net Worth: ~$300 million (wealthiest Senator)
NRA Rating: F (downgraded from C after supporting background check and assault weapons legislation)
Heritage Action Score: 0% (119th session) / 4% lifetime
Committees: Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Budget; Rules and Administration; Select Committee on Intelligence (Vice Chair)
Previous Election Opponent: Daniel Gade (R) in 2020
Next Election Year: 2026
X / Twitter: @MarkWarner
Campaign Website: https://markwarnerva.com/
Upcoming Contenders: Hung Cao (R), Open seat
U.S. Senator (D-VA) since 2009; former VA Governor; among the Senate's wealthiest members. SEEKING a fourth term in 2026 (NOT retiring — prior scorecard note was stale/wrong). Democratic nominee after sole Dem filing; faces GOP primary winner among Kim Farington, Bert Mizusawa, David Williams (Aug 4, 2026 primary). [2026-07-18 RESOLUTE VA refinement, federal tier] HARD evidence: voted YES on Respect for Marriage Act (2022) with public statement praising same-sex marriage legal recognition. Co-introduced 'Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act' (2026) exporting state-level gun restrictions federally (AWB/red-flag-direction package with Kaine). YEA on Laken Riley Act Senate passage (S.5, Record Vote 7, 2025-01-20) — moderate break with many Dems, documented in Senate roll call and The Hill; still does not equal support for mandatory deportation of all illegal aliens (q1 left null, not TRUE). Progressive life/marriage baseline from RFMA + long Dem record; null cells where no specific vote located. Prior thin all-False archetype cleared. [2026-07-18 VA sprint] HYGIENE: candidacy_status was incumbent_seeking_reelection while notes already said RETIRING 2026 open seat — set to not_seeking_reelection. Dens 50/50 but conf evidence_curated with thin notes/few footnotes — federal re-evidence pass required before conf upgrade; no score changes. [2026-07-18 HOTFIX] REVERTED erroneous not_seeking_reelection. HARD: Warner announced Dec 2 2025 he is running for a fourth Senate term (WTOP). GovTrack lists next reelection 2026 / serves until Jan 3 2027. Prior scorecard notes claiming 'RETIRING 2026 open seat' were STALE and must be ignored. candidacy_status restored to incumbent_seeking_reelection.

Category Breakdown

Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
FALSE (0)
1 claim
  1. A consistent pro-abortion-rights senator who voted for and cosponsored the Women's Health Protection Act (May 2022), which would have enshrined a federal right to abortion at any stage of pregnancy; co-introduced the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act (July 2024) to restore and protect abortion access after Dobbs; cosponsored and voted for the Right to IVF Act and the Right to Contraception Act; and stated 'I believe that a woman's health, not politicians in Washington, should drive important medical decisions' — rejecting any recognition of personhood or life protections from conception.

    Verified 2026-06-14Dispute this claim
Candidate has voted for or actively advocates abortion abolition (not merely restrictions)
FALSE (0)
Candidate opposes embryonic stem-cell research, IVF embryo discard, and chimeric experimentation
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and quality-of-life rationing
Not yet verified
Candidate has never accepted Planned Parenthood, NARAL, EMILY's List, or abortion-industry PAC funding
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
FALSE (0)
1 claim
  1. Warner voted YES on the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA) in both the November 2022 (61-36) and December 2022 final-passage Senate votes, codifying federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages. He praised the signing as 'welcome news for the thousands of same-sex and interracial married couples across Virginia,' and subsequently urged the Virginia General Assembly to repeal the remaining ban on same-sex marriage in Virginia's state constitution — explicitly rejecting the one-man-one-woman definition the rubric endorses.

    Verified 2026-06-17Dispute this claim
Candidate opposes all forms of same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in law
FALSE (0)
Candidate rejects transgender ideology and affirms biological sex (male/female) as immutable and God-given
Not yet verified
Candidate supports no-fault divorce reform and policies that strengthen the marriage covenant
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in public policy, schools, military, and corporate-government partnerships
FALSE (0)
1 claim
  1. Warner and Kaine reintroduced the Equality Act in June 2023, federal legislation that would write sexual-orientation and gender-identity (SOGI) protections into civil-rights law across education, employment, housing, credit, and public accommodations nationwide — directly promoting LGBTQ ideology in schools and the public square, which the rubric opposes.

    Verified 2026-06-17Dispute this claim
Candidate supports universal school choice, homeschool freedom, and opposes compulsory public-school attendance
Not yet verified
Candidate supports parental notification and consent on all medical, mental-health, and gender-related interventions for minors
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes CRT, SOGI, "comprehensive sex ed," and gender-ideology curricula in K-12 public schools
Not yet verified
Candidate supports age-verification on pornographic content and criminal penalties for sexualized content marketed to minors
Not yet verified
Candidate supports faith-based adoption/foster agencies and opposes placement of children with same-sex couples
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
1 claim
  1. Co-sponsored the Equality Act (S.393) in the 117th Congress (2021) and co-led its reintroduction in the 118th Congress (2023) alongside Sen. Kaine — legislation whose Section 1107 explicitly stated that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 'shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title,' stripping RFRA as any defense for religious organizations, faith-based employers, Christian schools, or religious businesses facing LGBTQ nondiscrimination suits. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and major evangelical bodies warned the Equality Act would expose religious institutions to federal discrimination liability for declining to affirm same-sex unions or transgender ideology. Warner's cosponsorship constitutes an explicit on-the-record commitment to enact the most direct legislative elimination of statutory religious liberty in modern American history.

    Verified 2026-07-10Dispute this claim
Candidate supports conscience exemptions for Christian medical professionals, business owners, adoption agencies, and educators
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes compelled speech against Christian conviction (pronoun mandates, gospel-proclamation hate-speech laws)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports public-square Christian symbols, prayer in public bodies, and Sabbath/Sunday closure protections
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays, curricula, or holidays in public institutions
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and supports cash and decentralized crypto as legal tender
Not yet verified
1 claim
  1. As Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, issued a statement welcoming President Biden's March 2022 executive order directing federal agencies to study a U.S. central bank digital currency — endorsing the groundwork for the surveillance-capable government digital dollar the rubric opposes.

    Verified 2026-06-02Dispute this claim
Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes deficit spending and supports a balanced-budget constitutional amendment
Not yet verified
Candidate supports usury limits, anti-debt-slavery protections, and tithe-friendly tax structures
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes WEF/ESG/Davos economic capture and supports anti-trust action against monopolistic financial cartels
Not yet verified
Candidate supports hand-counted paper ballots and opposes electronic voting machines
Not yet verified
1 claim
  1. Co-sponsored and voted for cloture on S.1 (For the People Act, 117th Congress) — legislation that would have prohibited state voter-ID requirements for federal elections, mandated nationwide mass mail-in ballot access, required same-day and automatic voter registration, and stripped states of existing election integrity safeguards; the cloture vote failed 50-50 on June 22, 2021. Warner stated the bill's purpose was to stop 'restrictive and discriminatory voting laws.' He subsequently opposed the SAVE Act (H.R.22, 119th Congress, 2025) and the SAVE America Act (2026), both of which require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, calling them 'voter suppression' measures that 'could disenfranchise millions' — opposing the citizenship-verification standard the rubric's election integrity framework requires.

    Verified 2026-07-10Dispute this claim
Candidate supports photo voter ID with citizenship verification
Not yet verified
Candidate supports single-day in-person voting with absentee only for verified medical/military exceptions
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes mass mail-in voting, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes private election funding ("Zuckerbucks") and foreign-government election interference
Not yet verified
Candidate supports completed physical border barrier and active military border presence
Not yet verified
Candidate supports mandatory deportation of all illegal aliens, including those who entered as minors
Not yet verified
1 claim
  1. Publicly urged passage of the 2024 bipartisan Senate border deal and called its failure a missed opportunity, praising a bill that provided humanitarian parole and legal-residency tracks rather than the mandatory-deportation framework the rubric demands.

    Verified 2026-06-02Dispute this claim
Candidate opposes sanctuary city/state policies and supports federal preemption against them
Not yet verified
Candidate supports mandatory E-Verify for all employment and benefit eligibility
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, tourist births, and opposes foreign ownership of U.S. farmland
Not yet verified
Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
FALSE (0)
Candidate opposes red-flag laws, magazine limits, "assault weapons" bans, and gun registries
FALSE (0)
1 claim
  1. Reintroduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025 with Senator Kaine, legislation that would prohibit the manufacture, sale, transfer, and import of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines — squarely opposing the rubric's defense of semi-automatic firearms and standard-capacity magazines.

    Verified 2026-06-02Dispute this claim
Candidate supports repeal of the National Firearms Act (NFA), Gun Control Act (GCA), and other federal gun regulations
FALSE (0)
Candidate supports castle doctrine and stand-your-ground laws with full civil immunity for lawful defense
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes ATF overreach, citizen disarmament initiatives, and U.N. small-arms treaty participation
FALSE (0)
Candidate supports Article I congressional war-powers requirement before any U.S. military action
Not yet verified
Candidate supports immediate withdrawal from forever wars and repeal of standing AUMFs
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes foreign aid to nations hostile to U.S. interests or actively persecuting Christians
Not yet verified
Candidate has never accepted donations from foreign-backed lobbies (e.g., AIPAC) or foreign-linked PACs
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes U.S. participation in WHO, U.N. governance overreach, NATO expansion, and supranational governance
Not yet verified
1 claim
  1. As Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, was the most prominent Senate champion of H.R.815, the $95.3 billion Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan aid package (signed April 24, 2024), calling his vote to advance it 'the most important vote in 14 years in this job' — directly contradicting the rubric's mandate to end open-ended foreign military entanglements and resist NATO-sphere expansion commitments.

    Verified 2026-06-27Dispute this claim
Candidate opposes pharmaceutical mandates of any kind (COVID, childhood, employer-required) and supports informed consent
Not yet verified
1 claim
  1. Voted NO on S.J. Res. 29 (Senate 52-48, December 8, 2021), the Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden Administration's OSHA vaccine-or-testing mandate for private employers with 100+ employees — voting to keep the government pharmaceutical mandate in force against 84 million American workers, contrary to the rubric's anti-pharma-mandate standard.

    Verified 2026-06-27Dispute this claim
Candidate supports repeal of pharma liability shields (1986 NCVIA, PREP Act) and restoration of tort accountability
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes Big Ag consolidation (Bayer/Monsanto/Cargill) and supports anti-trust action against agricultural cartels
Not yet verified
Candidate supports raw-milk freedom, small-farm protections, and opposes USDA / EPA overreach against family farms
Not yet verified
Candidate supports defense-contractor accountability, completion of Pentagon audits, and ending revolving-door appointments
Not yet verified

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