Rachel Fetty Anderson
Rachel Fetty AndersonCandidate for U.S. Senate from West Virginia (2026)
Rachel Fetty Anderson is a Morgantown attorney and community organizer and a former member of the Morgantown City Council. She is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from West Virginia in 2026 after winning the May 12, 2026 primary, and faces Republican incumbent Shelley Moore Capito on November 3.
Biography
Rachel Fetty Anderson is an attorney and community organizer based in Morgantown, West Virginia, and a former member of the Morgantown City Council. She has said she first filed to run for the U.S. Senate because she wanted a Democrat on the ballot she could vote for. In the May 12, 2026 Democratic primary she was the only woman in a five-candidate field and received 30,399 votes, or 33.1 percent, ahead of former state Senate President Jeff Kessler with 24,773 votes (27 percent), Zach Shrewsbury (16.1 percent), Thornton Cooper (12.8 percent) and Rio Phillips (11 percent). The Associated Press called the race for her at 10:18 p.m. on primary night. She has said that if elected she would support Medicare for All legislation, restoring a right to abortion, and codifying the Equal Rights Amendment. She faces Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican incumbent, who won her party's primary the same night with 66.5 percent, in the November 3, 2026 general election.
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