- See Robert Menendez's sponsored bills →Robert MenendezDemocraticIncumbent✓ Verified$2.2M raised
- Aristotle EliopoulosIndependent✓ Verified
- Craig HontsSocialist Workers Party✓ Verified
- Da'Shone HugheyWe The People✓ Verified
Where they stand
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| Issue | Robert MenendezDemocratic | Aristotle EliopoulosIndependent | Craig HontsSocialist Workers Party | Da'Shone HugheyWe The People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Menendez votes yea on technology use in regulation, TRIA reauthorization, KIDS Act, and financial exploitation prevention, but nay on Main Street Capital Access and privacy in purchases. | Eliopoulos supports policies that promote good jobs, economic growth, and small business success by backing union workers, apprenticeships, infrastructure investment, and reducing burdens on small businesses. Eliopoulos wants to make New Jersey more affordable for working families while building long-term financial security. | Honts calls for a public-works program providing union-scale wage jobs to build hospitals and childcare centers, with a shorter workweek and no cut in pay. | Hughey supports expanding economic opportunity through workforce development, small business growth, and community investment to build a future-ready economy. Hughey supports increasing housing supply, strengthening public transportation, and helping small businesses create good-paying jobs. |
| Healthcare | Menendez supports protecting and expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare, defending Medicaid, and building on the Affordable Care Act to lower costs and expand coverage. Menendez votes yea on EARLY Act reauthorization and rural care improvement, but nay on Do No Harm in Medicaid, lowering premiums, and SUPPORT for Patients reauthorization. | Eliopoulos supports affordable and accessible healthcare by lowering prescription drug costs, expanding primary care, improving mental health services, and protecting Medicare and Social Security. Eliopoulos supports a healthcare system focused on patients rather than bureaucracy, with lower prescription costs and protections for preexisting conditions. | Honts supports striking nurses and healthcare workers demanding more hiring, saying short-staffing puts patients' lives at risk. | Hughey supports increasing competition and price transparency in healthcare and expanding access to affordable preventive care. |
| Immigration | Menendez supports humane and effective immigration policies including a pathway to citizenship, fair laws, robust asylum protections, closing private detention centers, and addressing the immigration court backlog. Menendez votes nay on Secure America Act, DHS support resolution, BOWOW Act, Deporting Fraudsters Act, and Stop Illegal Entry Act, but yea on national emergency resolution. | Eliopoulos supports modernizing the immigration system, reducing visa and citizenship delays, supporting legal immigration pathways, and cracking down on human trafficking and cartel activity. Eliopoulos supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while creating a clear process to legal status for those who follow the law. | Honts supports amnesty for all workers in the U.S. without papers and opposes ICE raids and deportations. | Hughey supports a secure, orderly immigration system with stronger border security and a practical path forward for those who've built lives in America. |
| Public Safety & Crime | Menendez supports comprehensive gun control measures including expanded background checks, assault weapons ban, closing loopholes, and safe storage laws to reduce gun violence. Menendez votes yea on GUARD Act and Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, but nay on Protecting Privacy in Purchases, Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection, Cashless Bail Reporting, and Keeping Violent Offenders Off Streets. | Eliopoulos supports law enforcement with increased accountability, targeting violent crime and repeat offenders, strengthening anti-gang and anti-drug initiatives, and investing in community policing and first responder… | No public position found. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Abortion | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Eliopoulos supports access to abortion and reproductive healthcare while recognizing Americans hold differing sincere views on the issue. | Honts supports the decriminalization of abortion. | Hughey believes reproductive healthcare decisions, including abortion, should remain between a woman and her doctor without government interference. |
| Where they differ on Abortion: Aristotle Eliopoulos supports access to abortion and reproductive healthcare while recognizing Americans hold differing sincere views on the issue 1. Craig Honts supports the decriminalization of abortion 2. Da'Shone Hughey believes reproductive healthcare decisions, including abortion, should remain between a woman and her doctor without government interference 3. | ||||
| Taxes & Government Spending | Menendez votes yea on Tax Relief for Fraud Victims and AGOA Extension Acts, but nay on congressional budget resolution, Continuing Appropriations, National Security Appropriations, and Agriculture Appropriations Acts. | Eliopoulos supports cutting taxes for working and middle-class families, expanding the Child Tax Credit, fighting inflation through responsible budgeting, and eliminating wasteful government spending. Eliopoulos says the federal government must address wasteful spending and the growing national debt. | No public position found. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Energy & Environment | Menendez supports aggressive action on climate change, including cutting emissions, investing in clean energy, and championing environmental justice for underserved communities. Menendez votes yea on Diesel Emissions Reduction, Northwest Straits Marine Conservation, and American Battlefield Protection Acts, but nay on EPA rule disapproval, Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice, and HEATS… | Eliopoulos supports modernizing infrastructure, including stormwater systems and the electrical grid, to protect against extreme weather. | Honts supports expanding nuclear power, which produces no greenhouse gas emissions, if run under workers' control rather than for private profit. | Hughey supports federal investment in resilient infrastructure, including stormwater systems and upgraded power grids, to prepare for extreme weather. |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Menendez votes yea on resolutions directing removal of US forces from Iran and Lebanon, and on naming VA clinic, but nay on National Defense Authorization Act and FISA Amendments Act extension. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |