The Brief Three candidates are running for the Republican nomination in the race for Virginia's 7th Congressional District. The 7th District reaches from parts of Prince William County down to Fredericksburg. Harding has centered his campaign around three pillars: lifting small businesses, "[strengthening] families" and wrangling in the national debt. Harding wants to cut regulations on small businesses, introduce tax breaks for middle-class families and cut government spending. While recent district history says the 7th District might be close, before Spanberger took office in 2019, Republicans controlled the district going back to the early '70s.