30 Facts About Amanda Chase

Amanda Chase has been described as far-right and as a conspiracy theorist.

Amanda Chase has been deemed one of the most "prominent spreaders of election conspiracy theories in Virginia politics" and has been noted for her attendance at Donald Trump's rally preceding the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, where she appeared to voice support for rioters by calling them "patriots" and suggesting that Trump might still be sworn in as president, despite losing the election to Joe Biden.

Amanda Chase was born in Sheffield, Alabama, on December 1,1969.

Amanda Chase has been a resident of Chesterfield County since 1979 and graduated from Monacan High School in 1988.

Since 2010, she has operated Amanda Chase Consulting LLC, a campaign management firm.

Since 2013, Amanda Chase has been an independent contractor in the financial services industry.

In 2009, Amanda Chase worked for Republican Ken Cuccinelli during his successful campaign for Virginia Attorney General; later, she was a staffer to Republican congressman Dave Brat.

In 2015, Chase won the Republican nomination in Virginia's 11th State Senate District in an upset primary victory against incumbent senator Stephen H Martin, who had served since 1994.

Amanda Chase has repeatedly promoted baseless claims that the 2020 US presidential election was marred by election fraud and "stolen" by Democrats; she has claimed that Virginia Democrats "hate white people".

In 2019, Amanda Chase was removed from the Chesterfield County Republican Party Committee after clashing with others in the organization; Amanda Chase had promoted the campaign of an independent candidate for sheriff, violating a party rule barring Republican committee members from supporting a non-Republican candidate running against a Republican nominee.

In November 2019, Amanda Chase announced that she would not caucus with the Republicans in the State Senate in 2020, citing what she called broken and failed Republican leadership, and lack of transparency.

On March 22,2019, Amanda Chase reportedly became "irate" and used supposed profanities at Capitol Police officers after being told that she was not allowed to park in the secured Pedestrian Plaza on Bank Street where she would park at times during session.

Amanda Chase said in a video that the conviction made her "sick" and claimed that the verdict was motivated by politics.

Amanda Chase has repeatedly posed for photographs with Antonio Lamotta, a QAnon promoter who was arrested in Philadelphia shortly after the 2020 election for carrying pistols, an AR-15 rifle, and over 150 rounds of ammunition without a valid Pennsylvania firearms permit, a third-degree felony.

Amanda Chase attended Donald Trump's rally prior to the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, but stated that she left before the rioting began.

Amanda Chase praised the rioters as "Patriots who love their country and do not want to see our great republic turn into a socialist country" while falsely suggesting that left-wing "antifa or BLM agents of destruction" were to blame for the assault.

Amanda Chase expressed her disappointment that Vice President Mike Pence did not intercede in the counting of the electoral votes to overturn Biden's victory.

Amanda Chase claimed that Democratic state Senator Jennifer McClellan, a candidate for governor, could not represent all Virginians because of her leadership role in the Virginia Legislature's Black Caucus; this was one of several statements cited in the censure resolution against Amanda Chase.

Amanda Chase announced on February 17,2020, that she would be seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the 2021 election.

In December 2020, after the Virginia Republican Party decided to select its statewide nominees through a convention rather than an open primary, Amanda Chase said she would run for governor in the 2021 election as an independent candidate in the general election, but would remain a Republican.

Amanda Chase threatened to seek the gubernatorial nomination as an independent in an "independent primary".

Six days later, Amanda Chase reversed her decision to run as an independent, and continued on to run as a Republican while pushing for a primary.

On February 9,2021, Amanda Chase sued the Republican Party of Virginia, arguing that the convention is illegal under current executive orders.

Amanda Chase was one of seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination for governor: the others were Delegate Kirk Cox, a longtime member of the House of Delegates; Sergio de la Pena, a retired Army colonel and former Trump Defense Department appointee; Peter Doran, a former think tank executive; Pete Snyder, a businessman; Octavia Johnson, a former Roanoke sheriff; and Glenn Youngkin, a former co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group.

On May 10,2021, Amanda Chase lost her bid for nomination at the Republican nomination convention to Youngkin.

In November 2021, Amanda Chase announced she would run for the Republican nomination to potentially take on Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in Virginia's 7th Congressional District.

In January 2022, after congressional redistricting put her home in Virginia's 1st Congressional District, Amanda Chase announced she would not run against incumbent Republican Congressman Rob Wittman.

In July 2024, Amanda Chase announced she will run for state senate to fill the 10th district seat John McGuire left open after his victory in November.

Amanda Chase was unsuccessful in her attempt and finished 3rd in the Republican mass meeting in December 2024.

On February 26,2025, Amanda Chase announced she would run for governor of Virginia again.