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United States Senate - Senator Full Term

Senator — United States Senate

Get the facts on the California candidates running for election to the Senator — United States Senate

Find out their top 3 priorities, their experience, and who supports them.

Full Term
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About this office

Senators are elected to six-year terms to represent the people of their state in the federal government. They make new laws, hold hearings, approve presidential appointments, and help set priorities for U.S. policy.

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    Candidates

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    Chuck Smith

    Republican
    Retired Law Enforcement Officer
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Reduce Inflation, restore and stabilize our economy.
    2. Refund the Police and reduce the crime wave plaguing...
    3. Secure our borders and control the illegal immigration...
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    Daphne Bradford

    No Party Preference
    Education Consultant
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Public Safety/Reimagining Community Policing
    2. Economic Recovery
    3. Affordable Health Care
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    Cordie Williams

    Republican
    Chiropractic Doctor
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Border Secutiry
    2. Education Reform
    3. Election Integrity
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    Carlos Guillermo Tapia

    Republican
    CEO/Owner of Nexthome Coastal Premier....
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Business Project: To purchase the Peninsula of Baja...
    2. Business Project: To create a USA Manufacturing Industry...
    3. Education Reform law: to make Community colleges "FREE"...
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    Alex Padilla

    Democratic
    Appointed United States Senator
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. To ensure every eligible voter has free and ready...
    2. To ensure every family has access to clean water and...
    3. Reforming our immigration system to include pathways...
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    Timothy J. Ursich

    Democratic
    Healthcare Worker- Proud American...
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Pursuing the BEST way to fix our homeless crisis rather...
    2. Healthcare reform to include access to preventative...
    3. Properly funding out education system by scrapping...
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    Enrique Petris

    Republican
    Business owner
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Task our U.S. military to protect our borders 24/7...
    2. provide "free" community college and increase university...
    3. Create depression era type work programs to rebuild,...
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    James "Henk" Conn

    Green
    Social Worker
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Address poverty: Tripple Social Security Insurance...
    2. Green New Deal: Expand and fund a national mass public...
    3. Single payer health insurance (Medicare) for all.
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    Don J. Grundmann

    No Party Preference
    Doctor of Chiropractic
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Stop inflation. Nationalize the private banking Cartel...
    2. Restore energy production. Restore Keystone Pipeline...
    3. Ban transgender/mutilation surgery/hormones for under...
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    John Thompson Parker

    Peace and Freedom
    Coordinator Harriet Tubman Center,...
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Call for an immediate cessation of U.S. wars and proxy...
    2. Immediately call for a state of emergency in Black...
    3. Institute a referendum calling for the conversion...
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    Eleanor Garcia

    No Party Preference
    Industrial work
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. DEFEND UKRAINE’S INDEPENDENCE! FOR DEFEAT OF MOSCOW’S...
    2. WORKERS NEED OUR OWN PARTY, A LABOR PARTY. The Democratic...
    3. WORKERS NEED OUR OWN PARTY, A LABOR PARTY. The Democratic...
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    Robert George Lucero, Jr.

    Republican
    Executive Business Consultant
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Stopping the threat of nuclear war today
    2. Cooperation for global poverty eradication, getting...
    3. Reversing the American culture of pessimism
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    James P. Bradley

    Republican
    CEO Business Owner
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Homelessness and Veterans As a decorated veteran,...
    2. Growth oriented leadership will end the current economic...
    3. Lead to make America succeed again by advancing integrity...
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    Jon Elist

    Republican
    CEO of a Medical Device Company.
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Strengthening the economy and stopping inflation.
    2. Improving public safety, prosecuting criminals, &...
    3. Student first education policies and parent involvement.
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    Pamela Elizondo

    Green
    marijuana plastic entrepenuer
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. to convince leaders + rich folks they breathe the...
    2. Taxpayer's money should be used only for employing...
    3. Rich folks should return the money inappropriately...
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    Sarah Sun Liew

    Republican
    Pastor, CEO and Non Profit Founder
    Top 3 Priorities
    1. Rebuilding California's Economy and Helping Business...
    2. College Students STEM education and STEM Job creation...
    3. Immigration support, Health system Reform and Real...
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    Myron L. Hall

    Republican
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    Top 3 Priorities
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    Top 3 Priorities
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    Mark P. Meuser

    Republican
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    Akinyemi Agbede

    Democratic
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