Race for U.S. Senate<\/p>\n
Khan is up against a long list of candidates in the March 3 Republican Primary. In ballot order they are:<\/p>\n
John O. Adefope<\/p>\n
Anna Bender<\/p>\n
Sara Canady<\/p>\n
Ken Paxton<\/p>\n
Wesley Hunt<\/p>\n
Virgil John Bierschwale<\/p>\n
John Cornyn<\/p>\n
Gulrez \u201cGus\u201d Khan<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found out that one can run \u2013 if it\u2019s a federal election \u2013 one can run from another district, a congressional district where they don\u2019t live. \u2026 Then I researched which were the closest blue districts,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
Khan called it his \u201cpatriotic attempt\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
Khan was elected as a GOP delegate in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cGot 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\u2019s inauguration,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
Top priority, term limits<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I prayed about it earlier this year, I talked to my family \u2013 my business partner, and I decided I needed to run for Senate. The reason \u2013 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,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChuck Schumer, he\u2019s been a Senator for almost five decades. \u2026 People, including people in the Republican Party legislature, they\u2019ve been there for so long. Time to move on,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf 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,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
Khan was highly critical of the Biden administration for inflation. He wasn\u2019t a fan of Biden\u2019s border policy or foreign policy.<\/p>\n
His proposed fix is a 12-year limit for both Senators and the U.S. House, saying it\u2019s \u201cmore than enough\u201d time to make a positive impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cI support our strong borders \u2013 steel borders, \u2018peace through strength\u2019 foreign policy, Texas first, and America first, and energy independence,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n
Khan calls himself the only candidate <\/a>with \u201cover 15 years\u201d of experience in healthcare management.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore this, I have run, operated and managed primary care clinics, a hospitalist group, wound care [and] hyperbaric medicine clinics. So, I know what\u2019s going on and I know the gaps, especially the geriatric population in rural Texas,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n He\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n Khan\u2019s personal observations<\/p>\n \u201cThe native-born Americans are the most welcoming, accepting, tolerant people on this planet. \u2026 I\u2019m really against people who say there\u2019s racism here. They haven\u2019t seen anything yet. I believe racism begins when you step outside of America,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople 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\u2019t deserve to be in America,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n Khan is also the author of three books.<\/p>\n
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