Rob Wittman

Virginia’s 1st (VA - 01)

Updated: August 20, 2026

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Overview

Career politician Rob Wittman has spent nearly two decades taking advantage of the culture of corruption in Washington to benefit himself and his corporate donors while it costs Virginians. As Henrico County’s top prosecutor Shannon Taylor has taken on violent criminals, scammers and even members of her own party and is now running to end the corruption that is harming her community.

Summary:

  • Beginning 10 weeks before Election Day, voters in the Richmond and Norfolk media markets need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms and on broadcast TV and cable, and voters in the DC market need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms and voters especially in the Norfolk market and Independent, Black voters, white women, seniors, and men under 55 across the district need to receive mail and hear radio ads about how:
    • Wittman’s net worth jumped from as much as $200,000 to as much as $8.1 million over his time in Congress. He has traded $2.5 million worth of stocks including in companies that he was supposed to be regulating, and may have had access to information no other American had access to. He personally profited as companies raised prices on Virginians.
  • Voters, especially Black voters need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms and receive mail about how:  
    • Rob Wittman voted to kick hundreds of thousands of Virginians off their health care and put rural hospitals on the brink of closure, to pay for tax breaks for himself and the corporate special interests who’ve donated millions to his campaigns.
  • Starting 7 weeks before Election Day, voters in the Richmond and Norfolk media markets need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms and on broadcast TV and cable, and voters in the DC media market need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms and voters especially in the Norfolk market and Independent, Black voters, white women, seniors, and men under 55 across the district need to see mail and hear radio ads about how:
    • In the two decades he’s been in Congress, Wittman’s net worth has increased as much as 40-fold, becoming a multi-millionaire while working on the taxpayers’ dime – all while voting to give himself a tax break of up to nearly $60,000, voting 7 times to raise his own pay, and voting to give himself taxpayer-subsidized health care for life, while voting to jack up healthcare costs on the people he serves.
    • Wittman has personally invested in stocks of a monopoly utility giant and companies building data centers that are jacking up our bills, so it’s no surprise that he voted to increase our electricity rates: he profits when we pay more. 
    • Wittman advocated for building more data centers in Virginia, even though we already have the most data centers in the whole country. He even voted to give massive tax incentives to big tech companies to continue building data centers, which put massive strain on electrical grids and could make everyday Virginians pay up to 50% more for their utilities.
    • Wittman was the deciding vote to raise our healthcare premiums and prescription drug prices, to pay for tax breaks for himself and the corporate special interests who’ve donated millions to his campaigns
  • Voters may need to hear from law enforcement defending Taylor’s tough record on crime that:
    • Shannon Taylor made Henrico a leader in prosecuting sex traffickers, and brought the county’s murder rate down by 86%. She believes people who break the law should pay the price.

Additional Resources

  • Polling helping to understand how voters are reacting to Shannon’s biography and prosecutorial record would be most helpful after she has communicated at a high level herself, and not before.
  • Voters should hear from former Wittman voters who regret their vote, seniors who are struggling with higher drug prices, families who live near data centers and whose utility bills are going up.
  • Voters should hear from Law enforcement about Wittman’s shady stock dealings, trading stocks in companies that he was supposed to be regulating and may have had access to private information about – personally profiting as companies raised prices on Virginians.
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