Raul Garcia (Washington)
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Raul Garcia (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Washington. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Garcia also ran for election for Governor of Washington. He did not appear on the ballot for the primary on August 6, 2024.
Garcia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Raul Garcia was born in Cuba. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami in 1993 and a D.O. from the New York Institute of Technology in 1998. His career experience includes working as a doctor, medical practice owner, dean of a medical school, and medical director.[1]
Garcia has been affiliated with:[1]
- American College of Emergency Medicine
- American Osteopathic Association
- Bureau of Interns and Residents
- Partnership for Food Security
Elections
2024
See also: United States Senate election in Washington, 2024
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Washington
Incumbent Maria Cantwell defeated Raul Garcia in the general election for U.S. Senate Washington on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Maria Cantwell (D) | 59.9 | 1,535,231 |
 | Raul Garcia (R)  | 40.1 | 1,027,586 | |
| Total votes: 2,562,817 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Washington
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate Washington on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Maria Cantwell (D) | 57.2 | 1,114,327 |
| ✔ | | Raul Garcia (R) | 22.1 | 431,182 |
 | Scott Nazarino (R) | 5.7 | 111,386 | |
 | Isaac Holyk (R) | 5.7 | 110,701 | |
 | Melanie Ram (R) | 4.5 | 86,956 | |
 | Charlie Jackson (Independent) | 1.1 | 21,055 | |
 | David Tilton (No party preference) | 0.9 | 17,561 | |
 | Paul Giesick (D) | 0.9 | 17,433 | |
 | GoodSpaceGuy (R) | 0.9 | 16,826 | |
 | Thor Amundson (Independent) | 0.5 | 10,587 | |
 | Henry Dennison (Socialist Workers Party) | 0.4 | 7,840 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,862 | ||
| Total votes: 1,948,716 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aria Ursa (D)
- Ryan Searcy (R)
- John Guenther (R)
- Gregory Saunders (R)
- Destiny Archer (R)
- John Peterson (D)
Endorsements
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Garcia received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Garcia's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here.
2020
See also: Washington gubernatorial election, 2020
General election
General election for Governor of Washington
Incumbent Jay Inslee defeated Loren Culp in the general election for Governor of Washington on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jay Inslee (D) | 56.6 | 2,294,243 |
 | Loren Culp (R) | 43.1 | 1,749,066 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 13,145 | ||
| Total votes: 4,056,454 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of Washington
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of Washington on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jay Inslee (D) | 50.1 | 1,247,916 |
| ✔ | | Loren Culp (R) | 17.4 | 433,238 |
 | Joshua Freed (R) | 8.9 | 222,553 | |
 | Tim Eyman (R) | 6.4 | 159,495 | |
| Raul Garcia (R) | 5.4 | 135,045 | |
 | Phil Fortunato (R) | 4.0 | 99,265 | |
 | Don Rivers (D) | 1.0 | 25,601 | |
 | Leon Lawson (Trump Republican Party) | 0.9 | 23,073 | |
 | Liz Hallock (G) | 0.9 | 21,537 | |
 | Cairo D'Almeida (D) | 0.6 | 14,657 | |
 | Anton Sakharov (Trump Republican Party) | 0.6 | 13,935 | |
 | Nate Herzog (Pre-2016 Republican Party) | 0.5 | 11,303 | |
 | Gene Hart (D) | 0.4 | 10,605 | |
| Omari Tahir-Garrett (D) | 0.4 | 8,751 | |
| Ryan Ryals (Unaffiliated) | 0.3 | 6,264 | |
| Henry Dennison (Socialist Workers Party) | 0.2 | 5,970 | |
| GoodSpaceGuy (Trump Republican Party) | 0.2 | 5,646 | |
 | Richard Carpenter (R) | 0.2 | 4,962 | |
| Elaina Gonzalez (Independent) | 0.2 | 4,772 | |
| Matthew Murray (R) | 0.2 | 4,489 | |
| Thor Amundson (Independent) | 0.1 | 3,638 | |
 | Bill Hirt (R) | 0.1 | 2,854 | |
| Martin Wheeler (R) | 0.1 | 2,686 | |
| Ian Gonzales (R) | 0.1 | 2,537 | |
 | Joshua Wolf (New Liberty Party) | 0.1 | 2,315 | |
 | Cregan Newhouse (Unaffiliated) | 0.1 | 2,291 | |
| Brian Weed (Unaffiliated) | 0.1 | 2,178 | |
 | Alex Tsimerman (Standup-America Party) | 0.1 | 1,721 | |
| Tylor Grow (R) | 0.1 | 1,509 | |
 | Dylan Nails (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,470 | |
| Craig Campbell (Unaffiliated) | 0.0 | 1,178 | |
| William Miller (American Patriot Party) | 0.0 | 1,148 | |
| Cameron Vessey (Unaffiliated) | 0.0 | 718 | |
| Winston Wilkes (Propertarianist Party) | 0.0 | 702 | |
 | David Blomstrom (Fifth Republic Party) | 0.0 | 519 | |
| David Voltz (Cascadia Labour Party) | 0.0 | 480 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 1,938 | ||
| Total votes: 2,488,959 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mathew Mackenzie (R)
- Phillip Bailey (D)
- Asa Palagi (Independent)
- Lisa Thomas (Unaffiliated)
- Matthew Heines (Unaffiliated)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Raul Garcia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Garcia's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’m not a career politician. I’m an Emergency Room doctor who for 26 years has served patients at their most vulnerable moments.
I’m also not a born American, but an adopted one who had a love for this country before even stepping foot on it. I was 11 years old when my mother and I escaped communist Cuba and found refuge in America.
America has given me the opportunity to make the American Dream a reality. So, when I see the problems facing our state and our nation, I will step up and work to help resolve them.
Washington is a wonderful place to live, filled with enormous human and natural resources, but we have lost our way. We’re in the midst of serious crises that need more attention than they are getting.
- Fentanyl is the worst killer I've seen in 26 years as a doctor. We are losing a human life almost every five minutes in this country. In the Emergency Room, I treat two to five overdoses on every single shift. The government's response has been totally inadequate. We need to take drastic measures. I want to bring my scientific approach to politics. I’ve put together a plan, based on methods that have worked elsewhere. My Americans Against Fentanyl Act would target serious fentanyl dealers with felony charges and significant prison time. It would also help addicts with a mandatory treatment and recovery program.
- Another major crisis that must be solved is the high cost of living. We’ve all seen the rise in prices at the store, at the gas station, whenever we pay our bills. Housing and childcare in Washington is prohibitively expensive. Washington is the fourth most-expensive state for groceries, and the eighth overall. Inflation is putting terrible financial pressure on people across Washington. We can't go on like this. At the federal level, we must stop the reckless federal spending that is sending our national debt to dangerous levels. And we must promote policies that make our economy more productive and reduce prices for consumers.
- For years now, women in many parts of Washington have faced an OB-GYN crisis, losing access to local healthcare services. Our leaders, including the incumbent, have done nothing to stop this crisis. As a physician who has delivered babies and provided healthcare to women, I will listen to the women of Washington and help solve this crisis now. I believe Democrats and Republicans should, can and must work together on these problems instead of wasting time on political partisanship. The people of Washington deserve a government of solutions.
Fighting the fentanyl crisis, making our economy better for all Washingtonians & tackling inflation, improving healthcare and access to healthcare services, solving our immigration crisis, working across party lines for solutions.
My mother, without question. She sacrificed so much for me to get us out of Cuba and eventually to the United States where she worked hard to build a new life for us. She is strong, principled, and giving.
As an immigrant to this country who escaped communist Cuba with my mother, I have a deep love and respect for the United States, our democracy, our Constitution, and the freedoms we are so blessed to enjoy.
Anyone entrusted by the voters with public office has a duty and an obligation to always work in the best interests of the people he or she represents. That means working for solutions, addressing the priorities and the problems of your constituents, and putting aside partisan politics to do what's right and what's most effective.
It is important for voters to have the option of candidates from different parties and with different viewpoints and beliefs — and it is also important for those candidates, once they are elected, to
To do the best job possible of representing the views, priorities, needs and best interests of the people of the State of Washington. To work cooperatively, across party lines, to find solutions. To listen to others and be open to suggestions and critiques. To make decisions on policy based on what you believe will best work and be most effective.
When I was eight years old in communist Cuba, I took my roller skates, put them under a box and created a handle to form a sort of wagon. Then I went to the local store and told people I would take their groceries home for 10 cents a block. At the end of the day I'd made about five dollars. I ran home and told my Mom, "I think I've found the American Dream!" because we'd been able to secretly listen to American radio from Cuba and I'd always loved America. My Mother spoke to me very sternly and told me not to mention America because we would be punished by the government. Nonetheless, it felt amazing to be a little entrepreneur!
I will seek to build positive relationships with all other senators, of all parties. My job as US Senator for the people of Washington is to represent them and work for their best interests, and the only way I can do that properly is to have good working relationships.
Absolutely. No one person, and no one party, has all the answers. Working collaboratively is a must.
Financial transparency and government accountability is essential, and there should be much more of it. Speaking as someone who is not a career politician, but with a background in science and medicine, I believe we need much better access to how our government is operating and what it is spending.
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Campaign website
Garcia's campaign website stated the following:
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ADDRESSING THE FENTANYL CRISIS Over a million deaths have been attributed to drug overdose in the United States. Statistics show that a current Fentanyl user will die within two years. By sending Dr. Garcia to the U.S. Senate, we can ensure we take meaningful action against the Fentanyl crisis by passing the Americans Against Fentanyl Act, which would require that dealers be charged with manslaughter and addicts receive mandatory rehabilitation
Inflation is hitting the people of Washington hard. We are the fourth most expensive state in the nation for groceries, and the eighth most expensive to live in overall. Rampant spending by the federal government has sent the national debt to dangerous levels, and that is one of the major causes of inflation. Dr Garcia will take a stand against the reckless federal overspending that threatens Washingtonians and all Americans.
We must reprioritize and fund critically needed women’s healthcare in rural hospitals and small communities. As a physician, Dr. Garcia has worked diligently to bring healthcare access to women. As a United States Senator, Raul will focus on this issue so our women remain empowered!
Dr. Garcia sees past party politics and treats everyone with the same respect and appreciation. He believes in talking to and learning from all constituents, not just the ones who initially agree with him. As an ER physician, he takes a common-sense approach to policy issues that are often seen as political litmus tests.
For Washington State’s future I am by trade and training not a politician. I am a doctor, an Emergency Medicine physician that has been in the front lines for the last 25 years helping people in their most vulnerable moments; often moments of fear, moments of uncertainty. Through a career in medicine, I am here to bring Health to our State, to bring present, effective, and efficient leadership, and to create a government by the people of different walks of life and united by one common goal, to restore the safe and prosperous lives of our WA families. -Dr. Raul Garcia [2] |
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| —Raul Garcia’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2020
Raul Garcia did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Garcia for U.S. Senate, “Addressing the Issues,” accessed July 22, 2024
