Gulrez “Gus” Khan is the Lubbock man running for U.S. Senate in Texas. The co-owner of American Star Home Health & Hospice Care for the last five years came to Lubbock and the United States in 2001 in his 20s – having grown up in India.

“I’m an immigrant to the United States, and I believe the greatest blessing God can share upon anyone is to have them been born in the United States of America. Seriously. I wish I was born here. Sky’s the limit of this country,” Khan said.

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Race for U.S. Senate

Khan is up against a long list of candidates in the March 3 Republican Primary. In ballot order they are:

John O. Adefope

Anna Bender

Sara Canady

Ken Paxton

Wesley Hunt

Virgil John Bierschwale

John Cornyn

Gulrez “Gus” Khan

Khan has been a local precinct chair and ran for mayor of Lubbock in 2022. Even though he lives in Lubbock, he ran for U.S. Representative in Texas House District 32 (the Republican primary) in the Dallas area in 2024.

“I found out that one can run – if it’s a federal election – one can run from another district, a congressional district where they don’t live. … Then I researched which were the closest blue districts,” Khan said.

Khan called it his “patriotic attempt” to convert a blue district into red. With 7.4 percent of the vote, he did not advance to the general election but still called the effort successful.

“I got so many votes that the top two guys had a runoff, and each of them reached out to me for my endorsement. I was surprised I could run from there, but I could not vote for myself,” Khan said.

Khan was elected as a GOP delegate in 2024.

“Got a chance to meet with President Trump. He was a presidential candidate then. I was in Milwaukee at the RNC 2024. Then we were invited to Washington, D.C. to attend President Trump’s inauguration,” Khan said.

Top priority, term limits

“When I prayed about it earlier this year, I talked to my family – my business partner, and I decided I needed to run for Senate. The reason – number one, is term limits. Senator [John] Cornyn has been our senator for 24 years. We are a nation of, for and by the people. We need citizen leaders, not career politicians,” Khan said.

“Chuck Schumer, he’s been a Senator for almost five decades. … People, including people in the Republican Party legislature, they’ve been there for so long. Time to move on,” Khan said.

“If I believe that term limits were in place several decades ago, we would not have had a problem such as Joe Biden becoming president of the United States,” Khan said.

Khan was highly critical of the Biden administration for inflation. He wasn’t a fan of Biden’s border policy or foreign policy.

His proposed fix is a 12-year limit for both Senators and the U.S. House, saying it’s “more than enough” time to make a positive impact.

“I support our strong borders – steel borders, ‘peace through strength’ foreign policy, Texas first, and America first, and energy independence,” Khan said.

Khan calls himself the only candidate with “over 15 years” of experience in healthcare management.

“Before this, I have run, operated and managed primary care clinics, a hospitalist group, wound care [and] hyperbaric medicine clinics. So, I know what’s going on and I know the gaps, especially the geriatric population in rural Texas,” Khan said.

Too many patients are stranded in the healthcare system, not getting the care they need, he said, adding when a rural hospital shuts down, it increases mortality rates in the area.

He’d like to see higher Medicare reimbursements, broader use of telehealth, incentives for locally owned pharmacies, antitrust enforcement against pharmacy benefit managers and less federal regulation on healthcare.

Khan’s personal observations

“The native-born Americans are the most welcoming, accepting, tolerant people on this planet. … I’m really against people who say there’s racism here. They haven’t seen anything yet. I believe racism begins when you step outside of America,” Khan said.

“People who vandalize our buildings to get their point across, who disrespect our flag, who disrespect our national anthem, I can explicitly tell them that they need to get out of here. They don’t deserve to be in America,” Khan said.

Khan is also the author of three books.

His latest book came out on Amazon recently about reciprocal tariffs. It’s called “America First Again,” and the subtitle is “How President Trump’s 2025 Reciprocal Tariffs Will Positively Impact Our Economy in the Long Run,” Khan said.

The other book is called “Trump 2025: Making America Great Once Again,” and the third is, “The Future of Conservatism in the USA: An Indian-American Republican Vision.”

Khan has a degree from a university in India and one from Ashford University in 2009.

“I come from a family of physicians. My uncle is a physician in town. And my dad is a physician as well,” Khan said.

Khan said he played competitive cricket in India and the United States. He received a public message of support from former Indian international cricketer Harbhajan Singh, who referred to Khan as a former “cricket batchmate.”

His community involvement included the South Plains Food Bank and the Lubbock AMBUCS, he said.

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