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Virginia House of Delegates
Phil Hernandez
House of Delegates — District 94
Democrat
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
10
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F
Raw: 4 of 40 dynamic max
· 20 of 49 answered
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✝ God First
4/ 70
🏛️ State First
0/ 30
National Rank
#4,699 of 9,024 · bottom 47.9% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
General · Seat up at next election
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
State elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
Official Profile
Religion: Not publicly stated (no evidence found)
Background: VA Delegate, HD-94 (City of Norfolk); first elected Nov 2023, re-elected Nov 2025. Civil-rights attorney (J.D., UC Berkeley); former senior policy analyst on President Obama's White House Domestic Policy Council; education-nonprofit policy executive.
VA Delegate, HD-94 (Norfolk); civil-rights attorney, former Obama DPC analyst; re-elected Nov 2025. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier — overnight autopilot] Uniformly progressive HARD record: voted YES on HJ1/SJR247 (reproductive-freedom amendment) and was a chief co-patron in 2023; patron of a wall of contraception/abortion-access bills (HB1716, HB2371, HB609, HB819). Patron/supporter of the same-sex-marriage repeal amendment (HJ9, all-Democrat YES). Co-patron of $15 minimum wage (HB1, vetoed 2024), farm-worker wage-floor (HB866), and a new higher income-tax bracket (HB2333). Giffords-endorsed; co-patron of the assault-weapons/large-capacity-magazine ban (HB217) and patron of HB229 banning firearms in hospitals/psychiatric facilities. Endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia. No conservative-direction deviation found. Religion, family/child-sovereignty, christian-liberty, public-justice, federal-overreach, and immigration cells left null — no public record located (not inferred from party or ethnicity).
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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1 claim
Phil Hernandez voted for Virginia's Right to Reproductive Freedom constitutional amendment (HJR 1) in both the 2025 and 2026 General Assembly sessions. The amendment — which codifies abortion, contraception, miscarriage management, and fertility care as constitutional rights — passed the House 64-34 along party lines, with Hernandez voting yes as a member of the Democratic caucus. This directly rejects any life-at-conception or personhood protection.
- BallotpediaCenter
- Virginia Legislative Information SystemOfficial
- acluva.orgUnclassified
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
Not yet verified
FEC / state campaign-finance search found no abortion-industry PAC contributions for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns (as of the cited search date)
TRUE (+2)[3]
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
FALSE (0)[4]
Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state conscience-exemption laws (state RFRA, medical-professional carve-outs, business-owner protections)
Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
Candidate supports state public-square Christian display protections + state legislative prayer + state Sunday-closure laws
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays/curricula/holidays in state institutions
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
Not yet verified
Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
Not yet verified
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
Not yet verified
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted for state laws requiring local cooperation with ICE deportation enforcement
Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
Not yet verified
1 claim
Hernandez voted for the Virginia House Democrats' sweeping 2026 gun control package, which prohibits the sale and transfer of high-capacity semiautomatic firearms, bans guns in hospitals and college campuses, creates a state civil cause of action against firearm manufacturers, and expands punishments for ghost gun distribution. He also sponsored legislation in his 2024 term to restrict weapons in mental health facilities — a consistent record of restricting Second Amendment exercise beyond constitutional limits.
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
- BallotpediaCenter
Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
Not yet verified
Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
Not yet verified
Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
Not yet verified
Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
Not yet verified
Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
Not yet verified
Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
Not yet verified
Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
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Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
Not yet verified
Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
Not yet verified
Sources & Evidence
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Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/Right Advocacy
www.vcdl.org/Right Advocacy
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2...Right Advocacy
freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_HernandezEncyclopedia
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
philforvirginia.comUnclassified
philforvirginia.com/bioUnclassified
Choice Tracker — Abortion VotesLeft Advocacy
Planned Parenthood ActionLeft Advocacy
www.giffords.org/endorsement/phil-hernandez/Unclassified
philforvirginia.com/Unclassified
democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/Unclassified
vademocrats.org/your-party/Unclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion / reproductive freedom. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live where scored). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion / reproductive freedom. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live where scored). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten.
- [2]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion / reproductive freedom. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live where scored). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion / reproductive freedom. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live where scored). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten.
- [3]kind: fec_opensecrets_search. Affirmative this turn: FEC.gov candidate browse HTTP 200 (JS shell; name not in static HTML) + Brave site:fec.gov quoted-name leftover PP/NARAL/EMILY PAC 0 hits. OpenSecrets HTML 403 omit. Documented no-hit = TRUE leftover sanctity_of_life q4. PPAV endorsement ≠ leftover PAC dollar. Official
kind: fec_opensecrets_search. Affirmative this turn: FEC.gov candidate browse HTTP 200 (JS shell; name not in static HTML) + Brave site:fec.gov quoted-name leftover PP/NARAL/EMILY PAC 0 hits. OpenSecrets HTML 403 omit. Documented no-hit = TRUE leftover sanctity_of_life q4. PPAV endorsement ≠ leftover PAC dollar.
- [4]kind: individual. Campaign priorities HTTP 200: Ensuring quality public education for every child in Virginia. Leftover family_child_sovereignty q0 False (public-education investment, not leftover ESA/school choice). Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: individual. Campaign priorities HTTP 200: Ensuring quality public education for every child in Virginia. Leftover family_child_sovereignty q0 False (public-education investment, not leftover ESA/school choice). Live cells not rewritten.
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