{"id":9088,"date":"2026-03-30T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/insurgent-virginia-democrat-says-his-party-is-completely-wrong-on-gun-rights-and-gerrymandering\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:05:45","slug":"insurgent-virginia-democrat-says-his-party-is-completely-wrong-on-gun-rights-and-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/insurgent-virginia-democrat-says-his-party-is-completely-wrong-on-gun-rights-and-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurgent Virginia Democrat says his party is \u2018completely wrong\u2019 on gun rights and gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A political newcomer and former reality star running in Virginia\u2019s Democratic senatorial primary is causing an uproar in his party after breaking with them on gerrymandering and a slew of new gun control efforts.<\/p>\n

Mark Moran, a former contestant on the HBO Max series “FBoy Island” and previously a Wall Street banker, is challenging longtime Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark R. Warner, D-Va., whom he calls an “oligarch” who is no longer serving his constituents.<\/p>\n

Warner is the former richest and now fourth-richest senator, with a net worth upwards of $200 million, and is running for his fourth term despite a snippet unearthed by Moran showing him pledging to serve only two.<\/p>\n

“Since the establishment is already mad at me, here\u2019s another truth: Virginia Democrats are completely wrong on the Second Amendment,” Moran said on X after invoking the ire of Virginia\u2019s top Senate Democrat for opposing her politically charged redistricting effort.<\/p>\n

YOUR 2A RIGHTS ARE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK AS VIRGINIA DEMS PLOT INSANE GUN BANS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“After facing a personal safety issue, I got a gun. It made me realize how extreme our party\u2019s stance has become,” Moran said. “Dan Helmer\u2019s (loser) July 1st ban literally classifies regular handguns as \u2018assault firearms\u2019 so the government can take them away.”<\/p>\n

Helmer, a Democratic state delegate from Fairfax, did not respond to a request for comment. He has already launched a bid to run in one of the newly drawn congressional districts that have yet to be approved by the voters on April 21.<\/p>\n

Moran said the Founding Fathers crafted the Second Amendment to protect the U.S. from tyranny.<\/p>\n

“[That is] whether that tyranny comes from Donald Trump or a state legislature trying to disarm you. Our right to protect ourselves shall not be infringed,” Moran said.<\/p>\n

The Falls Church native\u2019s comments irritated a handful of other Democratic figures within a few hours of his post, including Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko \u2014 the founder of “Ready For Hillary” when the former first lady was eyeing the White House in the mid-2010s.<\/p>\n

GOP-LED COUNTIES PUSH BACK AGAINST DEMOCRAT’S REDISTRICTING CHARGE, TESTING VIRGINIA\u2019S CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Go be a p—- in someone else\u2019s party. We\u2019re not doing that anymore,” Parkhomenko said on X in response to Moran.<\/p>\n

Virginia Senate President L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, who has posted at times raunchy memes celebrating Democrats\u2019 flip of the governorship and push to draw out all but one Republican congressman in Virginia, lambasted Moran\u2019s tweet on that matter, spurring his gun rights commentary.<\/p>\n

“Anyone against our redistricting efforts to stand up to Donald Trump doesn\u2019t share our values as Democrats,” Lucas said in a statement on X. “If you want to oppose redistricting, you picked the wrong primary to run in. [By the way] I endorse Mark Warner.”<\/p>\n

Moran had called his fellow Democrats\u2019 cartographical creativity “extremely anti-democratic and that it is a reactionary policy to Donald Trump that was created by DC consultants.”<\/p>\n

He noted that Virginia voters already approved a resolution in 2019 to remove the legislature from redistricting considerations and slammed the new maps for “slic[ing] up Arlington and tak[ing] away the voices of everyone outside Northern Virginia.”<\/p>\n

“In every local Democratic committee I\u2019ve been in, when this issue comes up, nobody can defend it, it\u2019s just \u2018well this is what the party says is best\u2019 \u2013 NO. The Democratic Party loses because of reactionary maneuvers and because it doesn\u2019t have a big bold vision for the future,” he said.<\/p>\n

VIRGINIA DEM ADMITS REDISTRICTING PUSH AIMS TO ‘STOP TRUMP’, NOT ABOUT ‘FAIRNESS’<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t hold my tongue any longer despite what this will do to me with the Dems in Virginia.”<\/p>\n

Moran also has spoken out against the proliferation of data centers, sucking up power from the grid in both West Virginia and Virginia and allegedly increasing costs on residential consumers.<\/p>\n

He posited a plan to tax the data centers to create a free-college fund.<\/p>\n

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While Moran came across as moderate on those issues, a report from the New York Post showed his campaign platform includes abolishing ICE and passing “Medicare-for-all,” which the paper said places him to Warner\u2019s left on those key issues.<\/p>\n

“This year is the 250th anniversary of our country; now is the time for a peaceful revolution against the billionaires, the tech oligarchs, the data centers and all the other big money interests,” he said in a statement obtained by the Post.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Warner\u2019s campaign, Moran’s campaign and Gov. Abigail Spanberger\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n

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