Elaine G. Luria
Her plan says she will advocate for strengthening Medicare and Social Security, stand against efforts to cut seniors' earned benefits, and oppose cuts to those programs.
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Medicare, Social Security and retirement
Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
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Campaign positions
What each campaign says.
Jen A. Kiggans
Her campaign says she is a fierce advocate for seniors who fights to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, that benefits for those receiving or near receiving them will not be touched, and that she opposes Medicare for All.
Geral D. "Bishop" Staten
No stated position on Medicare, Social Security or retirement. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 does not mention Medicare, Social Security or retirement security. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
J. Matt Baker
His platform states no position on Medicare, Social Security or retirement. Above its four pillars it carries eight standalone stances, from democracy and the rule of law to ending donor control, and the pillars themselves cover the Constitution and democracy, Congress as a system, energy and technology, and Hampton Roads; none of the twelve reaches these programs, and the words Medicare, Social Security, retirement and retiree appear nowhere in the pages this desk captured. His campaign site links no X account, so this pass collected no posts of his, and no silence is claimed beyond his platform and home pages.
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