Republican Virginia State Sen. Tara Durant announced her campaign for the U.S. House seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman on Wednesday.
Durant, who calls herself a “conservative fighter,” writes on her campaign website that if elected to represent Virginia’s 7th congressional district, she would champion the president’s policies of lowering taxes, securing the border and restoring law and order. Vindman, who has not yet announced his bid for a second term, is notably the identical twin brother of retired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, whom he reportedly helped during the events leading up to Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
“I’m not a career politician — I’m a mom on a mission to secure our borders, restore law and order, and bring common-sense leadership to Washington,” said Durant in a press release sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “In Congress, I’ll fight to make our communities safer and secure our economic future. That means building the wall and stopping taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants, fully funding our police to keep families safe, protecting girls’ sports by keeping biological boys out, and advancing pro-growth policies to lower costs, end reckless spending, and get our economy moving again.”
“Eugene Vindman supported the radical Biden agenda every step of the way — from reckless spending to soft-on-crime policies that are putting our families at risk and driving our economy into the ground,” Durant continued in the release. “I’m running to build a brighter future, restore safety in our communities, and deliver the strong, growing economy Virginia families deserve.”
In the 2024 election, Vindman won an open seat race against Republican nominee Derrick Anderson by 2.6 percentage points, slightly underperforming failed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris who won the district by just under 3 points. Vindman’s 2024 underperformance came despite outraising his Republican opponent by a 7 to 1 margin.
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 10: U.S. Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) speaks during a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Former employees from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) testified in front of House Democrats regarding President Donald Trump’s benefit cuts and mass layoffs. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Vindman helped his more famous twin brother make his case that Trump allegedly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden during a 2019 phone call, The Washington Post reported in October 2024. Trump has repeatedly denied that he committed any wrongdoing on the call — which nevertheless led the then-Democratic-controlled House to impeach him for the first of two times.
“Because we did not let Trump’s abuse of his office stand, he was impeached — and his vengeance cost us our careers when we were fired in retaliation,” now-Rep. Vindman wrote in a fundraising message in September 2024, according to the Post.
Durant, a Marine wife and mother of three, served on the Virginia House of Delegates from 2022 to 2024, and has represented Virginia’s 27th district in the State Senate since January 2024.
The 7th district was previously held by former Democratic Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is now her party’s nominee in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election.
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