“I believe it’s not good for the American people,” he says. He also supports the federal tax bill and would like to see welfare reform and a free-market health care solution.ĭuring an interview with WTVR-CBS6, Fenty expressed support for participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children - blaming unenforced immigration laws for their situation - McAdams says he opposes DACA and granting amnesty for immigrants who entered the country illegally. McAdams says he thinks of himself as more conservative than his opponent, with strong support for the Second Amendment and a commitment to cracking down on illegal immigration. He says he’s well-equipped to take on the incumbent. A Charles City County resident who moved from California to Virginia at age 16, he says he decided to run for Congress out of a concern for the direction of the country and in contrast to self-serving politicians. McAdams, also a small business owner, has spent most of his life in ministry and social work. “So McEachin would have already been a relatively strong incumbent for a first-time defender of his seat, but I think in this year, particularly, he has all of the advantages.” “The national trend is going against Republicans and towards Democrats,” says Richard Meagher, political science associate professor at Randolph-Macon College. Democrat Hillary Clinton won 58 percent of the district’s votes in the last presidential election, and Ralph Northam claimed 62 percent of the vote in the 2017 governor's race. The redistricting allowed McEachin to take the seat in 2016 with 57.7 percent of the vote. It now stretches south and east from Richmond’s North Side to the Virginia/North Carolina line. Randy Forbes, the district shifted before the 2016 elections to include much of the Richmond area as part of a court-ordered redrawing of the 3rd congressional district. Shion Fenty, a small business owner and nonprofit volunteer, and Ryan McAdams, a pastor and state director of the Virginia Prayer Caucus, are seeking the Republican nomination in Virginia’s 4th District on June 12.
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