Rubén Marinelarena Gallego (/ˈruːbən ɡaɪˈɛɡoʊ/ ROO-bən ghy-EH-goh; né Marinelarena; born November 20, 1979) is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States Senator from Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2011 to 2014 as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives and from 2015 to 2025 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gallego was elected to Congress in 2014 as a progressive[1][2] and drew attention for his combative social media presence, including criticism of Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema, who opposed efforts to abolish the Senate filibuster to pass Democratic legislation. Democrats and progressive organizations encouraged him to challenge Sinema in the Democratic primary. In 2023, Gallego announced his candidacy for the 2024 U.S. Senate election in Arizona. Sinema later registered as an independent and chose not to seek reelection. Gallego rebranded himself as a moderate Democrat and defeated Republican nominee Kari Lake in the general election.[3][2]

Gallego is the first Latino to be elected to represent Arizona in the United States Senate.[4] After taking office, he became one of the first two Colombian-American U.S. senators, along with Republican Bernie Moreno of Ohio.

Early life and education

Gallego was born in Chicago, Illinois,[5] and is a second-generation American, with a Colombian mother and a Mexican father.[6] He and his three sisters were raised solely by their mother, Elisa Gallego, who was from Antioquia Department, Colombia.[6][7][8]

The family moved to the Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park, and Gallego graduated from Evergreen Park Community High School.[9]

Gallego attended Harvard College, where he became a member of Sigma Chi fraternity[10] and graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in government.[11]

Early career

Gallego in 2013

Gallego served in the Marines from 2002 to 2006.[12] After completing training in the School of Infantry (SOI), he was deployed to Iraq with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. Gallego served as a lance corporal.[13] The 3/25 lost 46 marines and one Navy corpsman between January 2005 and January 2006. Gallego's best friend died during combat operations in Iraq.[8]

In 2007, Gallego led District 7 Phoenix City Council candidate Michael Nowakowski's successful campaign before serving as Nowakowski's chief of staff.[14] In 2009, he stepped down as chief of staff to focus on his campaign for the Arizona State House in District 16, which he won in 2010.[15][16]

In 2011, The Arizona Republic named Gallego a distinguished freshman lawmaker.[17] His first successful bill granted in-state tuition status to veterans residing in Arizona.[8] Gallego supported the repeal of Arizona SB 1070.[18] In 2012, Gallego was elected assistant minority leader.[19]

Gallego founded the group Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement to recall Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, citing Arpaio's immigration policies and his use of taxpayer money to investigate Barack Obama's citizenship.[20] The recall failed; Arpaio remained in office until losing reelection in 2016. Gallego worked for Strategies 360 as Director of Latino and New Media operations. He also worked for RIESTER, one of Arizona's largest public relations firms.[21]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2014

Gallego speaking at a rally for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016

On February 27, 2014, Gallego announced his candidacy for Congress in Arizona's 7th congressional district.[22] Although not required to give up his seat under Arizona's resign-to-run laws (since he was in the final year of his state House term), Gallego resigned from the Arizona House in March 2014.[23]

Gallego won a five-way Democratic primary with 48.9% of the vote, defeating Mary Rose Wilcox, who was retiring congressman Ed Pastor's choice to succeed him and was backed by a number of progressive groups.[24] Gallego went on to win the general election with 74.9% of the vote. He is the second Colombian American elected to the U.S. House, after Scott Perry.[25]

2016

Gallego won the Democratic nomination unopposed and was reelected in 2016 with 75.3% of the vote.[26]

2018

Facing a primary challenge from state senator Catherine Miranda, Gallego campaigned as the "real progressive" in the race.[27][28] He won with approximately 74.8% of the vote, and was reelected in the general election with 85.6% of the vote.[29]

2020

Considered a "rising progressive star" in the party, Gallego was encouraged by several progressive groups to run for Senate by challenging Mark Kelly in the Democratic primary. Although he expressed interest, he ultimately chose to seek reelection to his House seat, later endorsing Kelly.[30][31]

Gallego won the Democratic nomination unopposed and was reelected to the House with 76.7% of the vote.[32]

In 2019, Gallego served as the national chair of Eric Swalwell's presidential campaign.[33] He endorsed Kamala Harris after Swalwell dropped out, and Joe Biden after Harris dropped out.[30]

2021

In July 2021, it was reported that a corporate lobbying group called the U.S.–Qatar Business Council paid for a $22,000 trip to Qatar for Gallego and his wife, who is a lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors.[34]

In the 117th United States Congress, Gallego voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time.[35]

2022

In 2022, Gallego ran in the newly redrawn Arizona District 3 and was reelected with 77% of the vote.[36] Gallego, a major critic of Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was encouraged by several progressive organizations to run against her in the 2024 election.[37] He announced his candidacy on January 23, 2023.[38]

Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress:[39]

Caucus memberships

U.S. Senate

Elections

2024

Gallego's Senate campaign logo

On January 22, 2023, Gallego announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in 2024.[45] The seat was then held by Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who was first elected as a Democrat in 2018, and who angered members of the party due to her opposition to filibuster reform and some major Democratic legislation. After Gallego entered the race, and with Sinema not polling well, she chose not to run for reelection.[46] Gallego had raised more money than Sinema in the first two quarters of 2023.[47]

Gallego with Barack Obama

In 2022, Gallego bought a home near Capitol Hill using a special mortgage loan program for military veterans. He claimed the District of Columbia home as his primary residence although his campaign maintains that he resides in his Phoenix home. Gallego receives a homeowner rebate in Arizona that lowers the tax burdens for residents who primarily live in the state. Politico noted that Gallego "may have to explain why he declared he was primarily a resident of the nation's capital".[48][49]

Although he had previously embraced his progressive background as "a fierce liberal combatant", he moved to the political center in his 2024 campaign to woo swing voters. He once called Donald Trump's border wall plans "stupid" and accused Trump of "scapegoating immigrants". His campaign emphasized his Marine Corps service and combat experience in Iraq, positioning him as a moderate voice on national security issues to appeal to independent voters. He distanced himself from progressive positions he had held in his House career, focusing instead on economic issues and border security.[50] The New York Times wrote, "Gallego has built a reputation as a blunt-spoken liberal who is politically in tune with young progressives and lacerates his opponents with profane social media posts." Republicans in Arizona highlighted his co-sponsorship of the Medicare for All Act, his support for ending the Senate filibuster, and his suggestion to "take a scalpel" to military spending.[2] In 2018, Gallego rallied alongside Bernie Sanders, and in 2022 he called himself "a true progressive voice in Congress". By 2024, he no longer embraced the label "progressive". He let his membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus lapse, which he claimed was a financial decision.[51]

On November 9, 2024, Decision Desk HQ projected that Gallego had beaten Lake in the Senate election in Arizona.[52] On November 12, the Associated Press also projected that he had defeated Lake.[4] Gallego significantly outperformed Kamala Harris, winning by 2.4% while Harris lost the 2024 United States presidential election in Arizona by 5.5%.[53]

Tenure

In February 2025, Gallego used $9,161 from his leadership PAC to pay for a trip to Miami to celebrate his wife's birthday.[54]

In summer 2025, Gallego participated in an official CODEL to Bogota, Colombia, during which, despite being notified by the U.S. embassy of a credible death threat against him, he partied at a nightclub until 3 a.m. and invited multiple female embassy staffers to join him.[55][56][57]

In 2025, Gallego was one of 12 Senate Democrats who joined all Republicans to vote for the Laken Riley Act.[58]

During the 2026 partial government shutdown, Gallego used several thousand dollars of campaign funds to travel with his wife to Saint Barthélemy.[54]

Committee assignments

Source:[59]

Caucus memberships

Relationship with Eric Swalwell

In early 2026, Gallego came under scrutiny when Representative Eric Swalwell, who had been his roommate and described as his best friend, was accused of sexual assault. Gallego and Swalwell, who denied the allegations but resigned from Congress and ended his gubernatorial campaign, were viewed as unusually close. When the allegations, which included harassment, assault, rape, drugging, and inappropriate conduct involving staff or former staff, came to light, Gallego initially defended Swalwell before distancing himself.[61][62][63]

The New York Times described Gallego's actions as supporting a "culture of silence" around sexual assault.[64] Semafor described it as his first stress test. Gallego said that, with "100%" certainty, he had never blacked out, but acknowledged his "reputation" for late nights and drinking.[56]

After the allegations against Swalwell, Representative Anna Paulina Luna accused Gallego of sexual misconduct. He met with the Senate Ethics Committee to defend himself and hired former Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates to deal with crisis communication from the fallout.[65][66]

Political positions

Gallego entered politics as a progressive in 2014, but since his 2024 Senate campaign, he has distanced himself from the "progressive" label and embraced a centrist platform.[30][67][68][51] Gallego is a founding member of the centrist Majority Democrats PAC, along with Senators Elissa Slotkin and Michael Bennet.[69] During his time in the House, he was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.[51]

Abortion

Gallego opposed the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which upheld state abortion bans.[70] He called for enshrining abortion rights in the Constitution of Arizona,[71] which was implemented in 2024 through 2024 Arizona Proposition 139.

Filibuster

In May 2022, Gallego advocated breaking the Senate filibuster to pass gun control measures. He criticized Kyrsten Sinema's refusal to change the rule, saying, "Unless you are willing to break the filibuster to actually pass sensible gun control measures you might as well just say 'thoughts and prayers'".[72]

Foreign policy

In February 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gallego joined Representative Eric Swalwell in calling for expelling Russian university students from the U.S., prompting criticism of these remarks as bigoted and xenophobic.[73][74]

In August 2025, during the Gaza famine, Gallego opposed conditioning offensive military aid and blocking the sale of bombs and ammunition to Israel, but he later said his position was "evolving".[75]

Gun policy

Gallego supported stronger gun control as of 2023. In May 2022, after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, Gallego drew attention his reply to Senator Ted Cruz after Cruz called gun control proposals an attempt to politicize the tragedy, Gallego wrote: "Fuck you @tedcruz you care about a fetus but you will let our children get slaughtered. Just get your ass to Cancun. You are useless."[76]

Immigration

Opposed to the costs and skeptical of its efficacy, Gallego opposed the construction of the Mexico–United States border wall, calling it "stupid", "dumb", and "pointless" in 2017.[77]

In 2025, Gallego co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act, saying he was breaking with his party because it was "largely out of touch" with the "average Latino".[78] In February and March of that year, Gallego expressed support for deporting "dangerous" migrants to El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay and called Trump's deportations to the country a "political trap" for Democrats.[79][80]

During the government shutdown of October 2025, Vice President JD Vance called for "revisiting" the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986, which mandates that hospital emergency rooms provide care regardless of a patient's immigration status, claiming that many Americans had experienced emergency room visits where "illegal aliens" unable to speak English received care before citizens. In response, Gallego told Semafor, "We are open to passing laws that deny benefits, subsidies, or any assistance to individuals in the country illegally", but he raised concerns about the practical implications, saying that if emergency rooms were forced to turn away patients who couldn't provide identification, the people most likely to be denied care would be those who appear Latino or Asian.[81][82]

Gallego during a Natural Resources Committee meeting in 2020

In 2026, after Renée Good was killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Gallego opposed abolishing ICE, comparing it to defunding the police. He said Americans "want a slimmed-down ICE that is truly focused on security".[68] Just over two weeks later, federal immigration agents in Minneapolis fatally shot Alex Pretti. Gallego then announced he would vote against the upcoming Department of Homeland Security funding bill. After voting against the bill, he said in a statement, "I cannot vote to give ICE and Border Patrol more money to terrorize our communities until we see significant changes to how these agencies operate."[83]

Native American social services

Gallego has sponsored or co-sponsored several bills funding social services for Native Americans.[84][85] In September 2023, the House passed Gallego's bill, the Native American Child Protection Act, which aims to set up a National Indian Child Resource and Family Services Center to assist and train tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations, and to forge state-tribe agreements to prevent, investigate, and prosecute family violence.[86][87]

Gallego speaking to a U.S. Army officer in 2017

Personal life

On August 7, 2008, Gallego changed his name from Ruben Marinelarena to Ruben Marinelarena Gallego to honor his mother, Elisa Gallego, who raised him and his three siblings on her own after his father abandoned the family in his childhood.[88] In 2010, Gallego married Kate Widland Gallego, who was later elected mayor of Phoenix. They divorced in 2017 and have one child together.[89]

Gallego married Sydney Barron in 2021.[90][91] Barron is a lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors.[6] Gallego and Barron have two children together.[92][93]

In 2021, Gallego and Jim DeFelice wrote They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit, a memoir of Gallego's service in the war as a member of the U.S. Marines Third Battalion, Twenty-Fifth Marine Regiment, Lima Company.[94]

Electoral history

2010

2010 Arizona House of Representatives Democratic primary, 16th district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego 4,149 26.12
Democratic Catherine Miranda 3,476 21.88
Democratic Cloves Campbell Jr. (incumbent) 3,182 20.03
Democratic Jim Munoz Jr. 2,281 14.36
Democratic Sandra Gonzales 1,955 12.31
Democratic Cristy Lopez 842 5.30
2010 Arizona House of Representatives election, 16th district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Catherine Miranda 19,197 39.46
Democratic Ruben Gallego 18,365 37.75
Republican Michael Gular 8,551 17.58
Green Angel Torres 2,532 5.21

2012

2012 Arizona House of Representatives election, 27th district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Catherine Miranda (incumbent) 28,683 40.98
Democratic Ruben Gallego (incumbent) 27,522 39.32
Republican Daniel Coleman 10,088 14.41
Green Angel Torres 3,702 5.29

2014

2014 U.S. House Democratic primary, Arizona's 7th congressional district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego 14,936 48.90
Democratic Mary Rose Wilcox 11,077 36.27
Democratic Randy Camacho 2,330 7.63
Democratic Jarrett Maupin 2,199 7.20
2014 U.S. House election, Arizona's 7th congressional district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego 54,235 74.85
Libertarian Joe Cobb 10,715 14.79
Americans Elect Rebecca DeWitt 3,858 5.32
Independent José Peñalosa 3,496 4.83
Write-in 150 0.21

2016

2016 U.S. House election, Arizona's 7th congressional district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego (incumbent) 119,465 75.2
Republican Eve Nunez 39,286 24.7
Write-in 60 < 0.01

2018

2018 U.S. House election, Arizona's 7th congressional district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego (incumbent) 113,044 85.6
Green Gary Swing 18,706 14.1
Write-in 301 < 0.01

2020

2020 U.S. House election, Arizona's 7th congressional district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego (incumbent) 165,452 75.7%
Republican Josh Barnett 50,226 23.3%
Write-in 54 0.0%
Total votes 215,732 100%
Democratic hold

2022

2022 U.S. House election, Arizona's 3rd congressional district
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego (incumbent) 108,599 77.0%
Republican Jeff Zink 32,475 23.0%
Total votes 141,074 100%
Democratic hold

2024

2024 United States Senate election in Arizona
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ruben Gallego 1,676,335 50.1%
Republican Kari Lake 1,595,761 47.7%
Green Eduardo Heredia Quintana 75,868 2.3%
Write-in 850 0.0%
Total votes 3,348,814 100%
Democratic gain from Independent

See also

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