Elected to office in November 2025, Ghazala Hashmi, Ph.D., serves as the 43rd lieutenant governor of Virginia. Prior to this election, Lt. Governor Hashmi served six years in the State Senate representing Richmond and surrounding localities; she was the first Muslim to serve in the Virginia Senate. As lieutenant governor, she is the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office in the nation.
On May 15, Georgia U.S. Congressman Andrew Clyde, R-District 9, posted a vile, xenophobic, and anti-Muslim attack on his X social media account targeting Virginia state Sen. Saddam Salim, D-District…
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