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Virginia House of Delegates
Rae Cousins
House of Delegates — District 79
Democrat
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✝ God First
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🏛️ State First
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National Rank
#5,840 of 9,024 · bottom 35.3% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
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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 documented (no church membership or denomination found in public sources)
Background: VA House of Delegates, HD-79 (Richmond); attorney (J.D. Howard University; B.A. William & Mary), career in settlement administration. First elected Nov 2023, took office Jan 2024; re-elected Nov 2025. Committees: Courts of Justice, Education, Public Safety. VPAP caucus unity 94% (2025) / 96% (2026).
VA Delegate HD-79 (Richmond), sitting since Jan 2024. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Uniformly progressive HARD record; VPAP party-unity 94-96% with zero against-caucus votes on any social/culture-war issue. Life: ReproRising 2025 = A+ 'Champion'; co-patron HJ1 (2026) reproductive-freedom amendment; self-describes as a 'staunch advocate for the fundamental right to an abortion'; PP-Advocates endorsed (iVoterGuide). Marriage: same-sex-marriage amendment passed the House on party lines (HJ9 2025 58-35, full Democratic caucus in favor / HJ3 2026 67-31); as a 96%-unity Democrat with no social deviation she was in that majority. Family: explicitly 'rejects school choice policies and voucher schemes.' 2A: patron of HB217 (2026) banning 'assault firearms' and large-capacity magazines; Giffords-PAC endorsed. Co-patron HJ2 (2026) right-to-vote/felon-restoration amendment (recorded, not mapped to ballot-mechanics cells). Christian liberty, federal overreach, and immigration: 'did not answer' / no record — left null, not inferred from party. Religion not publicly documented.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
1 claim
Rae Cousins voted for Virginia's Right to Reproductive Freedom constitutional amendment (HJR 1) in both the 2025 and 2026 General Assembly sessions. Ballotpedia lists her as a supporter of the amendment, which codifies abortion access, contraception, fertility care, and miscarriage management as constitutional rights. It passed the House 64-34 along party lines — Cousins voting yes — directly rejecting a life-at-conception or personhood standard.
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Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
Not yet verified
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)
FALSE (0)[4]
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
1 claim
Rae Cousins voted for Virginia's constitutional amendment (HJR 9) to repeal the state's 2006 definition of marriage as 'only a union between a man and a woman,' sending the repeal to the 2026 statewide ballot. The amendment passed the House 58-35 with near-unanimous Democratic support and Cousins voting yes — directly opposing the one-man-one-woman definition of marriage the rubric upholds.
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Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
FALSE (0)[5]
Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in state-funded schools, state agencies, and state corporate-partnership programs
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement
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)
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
Not yet verified
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 supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
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Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
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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/Rae_CousinsEncyclopedia
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
www.browngreer.com/people/rae-cousinsUnclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
www.raecousins.com/Unclassified
ivoterguide.com/candidate/76565/race/19006/election/...Right Advocacy
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References & footnotes
Every answer above with a [n] marker corresponds to one of the footnotes below. Wayback-archive links preserve the page as it read at our access date so a reader can verify the citation even if the original URL changes or disappears.
- [1]ReproRising 2025 = A+ 'Champion'; co-patron of HJ1 (2026) reproductive-freedom amendment — does not affirm personhood from conception. Left Advocacy
ReproRising 2025 = A+ 'Champion'; co-patron of HJ1 (2026) reproductive-freedom amendment — does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [2]ReproRising 2025 = A+ 'Champion'; co-patron of HJ1 (2026) reproductive-freedom amendment — does not affirm personhood from conception. Official
ReproRising 2025 = A+ 'Champion'; co-patron of HJ1 (2026) reproductive-freedom amendment — does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [3]Self-describes as a 'staunch advocate for the fundamental right to an abortion'; voted the pro-abortion-access slate — opposite of abortion abolition. Unclassified
Self-describes as a 'staunch advocate for the fundamental right to an abortion'; voted the pro-abortion-access slate — opposite of abortion abolition.
- [4]Endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia. Right Advocacy
Endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia.
- [5]Same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment passed the House on party lines (HJ9 2025 58-35, full Democratic caucus in favor); Cousins (96% caucus unity, zero social-issue deviations) was in that majority. Center
Same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment passed the House on party lines (HJ9 2025 58-35, full Democratic caucus in favor); Cousins (96% caucus unity, zero social-issue deviations) was in that majority.
- [6]Same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment passed the House on party lines (HJ9 2025 58-35, full Democratic caucus in favor); Cousins (96% caucus unity, zero social-issue deviations) was in that majority. Reference
Same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment passed the House on party lines (HJ9 2025 58-35, full Democratic caucus in favor); Cousins (96% caucus unity, zero social-issue deviations) was in that majority.
- [7]Patron of HB217 (2026) banning 'assault firearms' and large-capacity magazines; Giffords-PAC endorsed — opposite of the 2A position on bans/magazine limits. Official
Patron of HB217 (2026) banning 'assault firearms' and large-capacity magazines; Giffords-PAC endorsed — opposite of the 2A position on bans/magazine limits.
- [8]Patron of HB217 (2026) banning 'assault firearms' and large-capacity magazines; Giffords-PAC endorsed — opposite of the 2A position on bans/magazine limits. Unclassified
Patron of HB217 (2026) banning 'assault firearms' and large-capacity magazines; Giffords-PAC endorsed — opposite of the 2A position on bans/magazine limits.
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