Nick Freitas Officially Joins U.S. Senate Race

Game on. #VASen

— Del. Nick Freitas (@NickForVA) December 9, 2017

After weeks of speculation, it’s official. Republican Delegate Nick Freitas (30th House District) has thrown his hat into the U.S. Senate race to challenge Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, joining Prince William County Supervisor Corey Stewart, according to political reporter Jenna Portnoy with the Washington Post:

… Freitas, who was just elected to a second term last month, is not exactly a mainstream figure. At his announcement in a cramped hotel suite at the Homestead resort, the 38-year-old federal contractor delivered a treatise on small government, promising to combat a worldview that “treats free people as if we were subjects instead of citizens.”

“Quite frankly, establishment elements from both sides of the aisle have been responsible in thinking themselves made from finer clay than the rest of humanity,” Freitas said.

Freitas and Stewart are the only candidates who have formally announced although it is believed E. W. Jackson, who ran for the party’s nomination for Lt. Governor in 2013, will announce soon, and others are considering.

With a Liberty Rising slogan, Freitas represents Orange, Madison, and part of Culpeper counties in the Virginia House of Delegates where he has served one two-year term. An Army veteran who served in Iraq, he has been involved in Republican politics for years, and served as chairman of the Culpeper County Republican Committee.

Norman Leahy addressed the possibility of a Nick Freitas candidacy here.