“After spending six years in the Virginia Senate, I’m ready.”
State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi was an educator and an academic administrator before being elected in 2019 to represent Virginia’s 15th Senate District, which covers much of Chesterfield County.
Now, Hashmi is hoping to preside over the Virginia Senate as the commonwealth’s next lieutenant governor. She is running against Republican John Reid, a former talk radio host, for the office currently occupied by Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears. She won the Democratic primary in June with 28% of the vote in a campaign against five other candidates.
VPM News State Politics Reporter Jahd Khalil recently spoke to Hashmi about her campaign as part of a series of conversations with the candidates running for Virginia’s statewide office this election cycle…