Entrepreneur Philip Harding joins a crowded Republican field running for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District.
Philip Harding stands with his wife and three children at a launch event for Virginia’s 7th District, April 14, 2026, in Woodbridge, Virginia. , and grew up in the Golden State until moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harding has been living in Virginia for 11 years.
Harding is a first-generation college graduate. Starting at community college, he then became a distance student at Harvard University. He was convinced to run for office in the Harvard Extension School and campaigned while living 3,000 miles away in California. Harding became the first distance student to win student body president in the university’s history. He and his wife moved to Cambridge to complete his master’s degree, where he later became Harvard-wide student body president and gave his Harvard commencement address.
His mother is from Arizona, and his father, a pastor, is from Indiana. A strong Christian faith is central to his life and decisions. Harding has been married to his wife for 21 years, and they share three children: a 14-year-old girl and two boys, aged 11 and 7. Harding says, “Our family is everything.” They enrolled in what Harding calls “world schooling,” where they travel together and learn through global experiences.
Harding founded and ran Impact Junkie, a company that helps people start businesses and “live out their purpose.” The program has over 2 million participants in 30 countries and has been translated into six languages. Harding has traveled the world training and investing in entrepreneurs from small villages to veterans, former convicts, teachers, and single mothers.
Harding’s campaign has three core priorities: empowering businesses, strengthening families, and tackling the national debt. Harding is running for Congress to reduce government regulations, introduce pro‑growth tax and regulatory policy, and expand access to capital and investment for “We will make Virginia’s 7th district the best place in America to start and grow a business,” Harding said to the crowd at his campaign launch event. Philip Harding announces his bid for Virginia’s 7th District, April 14, 2026, in Woodbridge, Virginia.
The second priority is to defend the family by protecting parental rights, getting schools back to educating, and keeping communities safe. “If we can address the family, get back to strengthening the families, that’s going to solve most of the downstream issues in our society,” Harding told
Harding wants to use his business experience to tackle debt. He plans to cut waste, audit inefficiencies, hold overspenders accountable, and reform spending.“We do not have a revenue problem, we have a discipline problem,” Harding said. “If America were a business, we would be restructuring immediately. Trillions of dollars in debt is not compassion, it’s theft from future generations.”
Harding loves extreme sports such as Supercross and X Games. He calls it a “parallel to life,” and loves the feeling of tiptoeing up to the edge and jumping into the unknown.How Congress can claw back its oversight power
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