Missy Cotter Smasal is seeking the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s second congressional district.
She announced her run for Congress in September, touting her background in the Navy and a desire to run because the incumbent, Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans, has not lived up to her promise to “stand up for coastal Virginia and focus on military families and veterans,” Smasal said at the time.
Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat, held the district from 2018 to 2022. Redistricting in 2021 made VA-02 friendlier to Republicans, and Luria lost to Kiggans by three points in 2022.
Virginia Scope talked to Smasal recently about her campaign. Read what she had to say below.
Virginians care about rights, they care about protecting democracy, and they’re also very concerned about protecting reproductive care and abortion rights. Those are things that I hear on the doors.”
