Bristol, Virginia sample ballot 2026

Mark Warner is Virginia's sitting U.S. senator, per the campaign site. He was the first person in his family to graduate from college, and his third business venture, a cell phone company, broke through, per the campaign site. He was elected governor of Virginia in 2001, chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee beginning in 2021 and is now its vice chairman, per the campaign site and the Senate's committee rosters. The campaign site says he wrote the CHIPS and Science Act.

• Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 50-50 in July 2025, with the vice president casting the tie-breaking vote. Opposed
• Voted yes on the CHIPS and Science Act, funding domestic semiconductor manufacturing and scientific research, which cleared the Senate 64-33 in July 2022. Supported

Bert Mizusawa is a retired U.S. Army major general and a four-time combat veteran with 41 years in uniform, per the campaign site. He holds a law degree from Harvard, and he served as a Senate Armed Services Committee staff member, as a deputy under secretary of the Army, and as commander of the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force in Afghanistan, per the campaign site.