New Chair Determined to Win Back White House, Hold Governor’s Mansion
Fairfax County Republican Committee | April 9, 2024
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — The Fairfax County Republican Committee, also known as the Fairfax GOP, elected new leadership over the weekend. Katie Gorka won the race for chair with a decisive 68.9 percent of the vote. More than 500 delegates attended the county’s biennial GOP convention, held at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke on Saturday, April 6.
Gorka, the first woman elected to lead the Fairfax GOP, issued the following statement today: “I am so honored and excited about this opportunity to serve as the new chair of the Fairfax GOP. I have been really inspired by the energy and enthusiasm I have seen over the past few months, while meeting members and volunteers throughout Fairfax County. There is a real hunger to get to work and turn our county around. I am very optimistic about what we are going to be able to do together.”
A longstanding Fairfax GOP volunteer, Gorka has served as a greeter, door-knocker, poll watcher and election official in the county’s Dranesville Magisterial District. She co-founded Catholics Engaged for Fairfax in 2022 and was elected to the McLean Community Center Board in 2023. Gorka additionally served in the Department of Homeland Security, where she focused on combating terrorism and human trafficking. At the Heritage Foundation, she worked to empower parents with more control over their children’s education. With Mike Gonzalez, Gorka co-authored the newly-published book, NextGen Marxism: What It Is And How to Combat It.
In her new role as chair of the Republican Party of Virginia’s largest political unit, Gorka is now focused on winning back the White House this year and retaining the Virginia Governor’s Mansion in 2025. “This is a critical year in our nation’s history,” Gorka said. “We must do everything we can to help President Trump win and to elect Republicans to the House and Senate. We will do that by actively engaging Fairfax County’s significant immigrant population, whose pro-family, pro-work, pro-education values align with the Republicans. We will also be encouraging Republicans to vote early. We don’t support extensive early voting or no-excuse absentee ballots, but as long as those are the rules, we must play by those rules in order to win.”
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The Fairfax GOP is the Republican Party of Virginia’s largest political unit. To learn more, visit FairfaxGOP.org.
