Pleickhardt wins GOP primary, will challenge Lee Carter Dr. Steve Pleickhardt, a dentist residing and practicing in Manassas, will be the GOP’s candidate to take on incumbent Lee Carter (D-50, Bristow, Manassas) — Virginia’s first self-avowed socialist — in November. Pleickhardt won a firehouse primary on Saturday, May 1, running against Mike Allers Jr., a Loudoun County school teacher who also lives in Manassas. The primary, which was held at Metz Middle School in Manassas, saw Pleickhardt take the win in the overall election with 266 votes to Allers’ 169 votes. Allers had taken the majority of votes from Manassas City with 124 to Pleickhardt’s 116. But it was in Prince William County itself where Pleickhardt picked up the lion’s share of support receiving 150 votes to Allers’ 45.