On the campaign trail, Virasingh has tried to fashion herself as a progressive alternative to the incumbent - a new voice of a new generation challenging someone who has been a fixture of Virginia politics for decades.
Two months ago, he says, he moved all his investments from stocks to mutual funds when the issue of self-dealing on Capitol Hill became a topic of conversation. That's a policy proposal that Beyer actually agrees with. She is calling for a prohibition on members of Congress being able to buy and sell stocks. Virasingh is calling attention to Beyer's personal wealth, criticizing the performance of his stock portfolio at a time when he was in a position to have what she calls "privileged information" as a member of Congress. "Unless there is some dissatisfaction among the district's Democratic Party voters with Beyer - and I do no see any - it is going to be especially difficult in this case." "It is difficult to knock off an established incumbent member in a first run for public office," said Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. This year, though, Victoria Virasingh is challenging Beyer for the Democratic nomination. Beyer emerged that year from a field of 10 candidates in the Democratic primary, and has not been challenged in a Democratic primary since that time. Jim Moran (D-8), who decided to step down in 2014 after serving 12 terms in Congress.
For many years, the district was represented by U.S. The Eighth Congressional District is the bluest of the blue strongholds, giving President Biden 78 percent of the vote in 2020 - the largest margin of victory for all the Virginia congressional districts.
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