Race · November 3, 2026

U.S. House · Florida's 4th District

4 candidates on the ballot.^1,2,3

§1Candidates

Why this matters: Every candidate the state lists for this race on the November ballot, in the state's own order.

Aaron Bean

Republican · Incumbent

Currently represents Florida's 4th District in the U.S. House.

LaShonda "L.J." Holloway

Democrat · Challenger

Mike Sell

Florida Forward Party · Challenger

Todd Schaefer

No Party Affiliation · Challenger

§2Side by side

Why this matters: The same facts for every candidate, in the same order. Where we found nothing for a candidate, the cell says so — that means we didn't find it in public sources, not that it doesn't exist.

Issues only one candidate has addressed

By candidate, in ballot order. We found nothing public from the other candidates in this race on these issues.

Aaron Bean — 3 issues

Border wall and barriers
Build walls or fencing along much more of the border
His campaign website says he supports finishing the border wall, backing the Border Patrol and ending catch-and-release.²⁵
Federal spending levels
His campaign website says Washington should live within its means the way Florida families do, and that he balanced budgets in Tallahassee for 18 years.²⁵
Fraud and improper payments in federal programs
His campaign website says he co-founded the Congressional DOGE Caucus to root out waste, fraud and abuse in government.²⁵

Mike Sell — 60 issues

Abortion law
His campaign's platform calls for guaranteed abortion access nationwide, at minimum through the first trimester, and lists him as opposing Florida's six-week abortion ban.^13,16
Abortion medication
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing a Florida bill that it says would allow $100,000 civil suits over abortion medication sent by mail or prescribed through telehealth.^13,16
Birth control and IVF
His campaign's platform calls for protecting access to birth control in every state and supports the Right to Contraception Act.^13,16
Who sets abortion law
A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
His campaign's platform calls for restoring nationwide abortion access as a federal floor rather than a state option, and supports the Women's Health Protection Act.^13,16
Discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity
Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
His campaign's platform supports the Equality Act and making protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity the law in all 50 states.^13,16
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing a Florida law that bars local governments from funding diversity, equity and inclusion programs.¹⁶
Foreign intelligence surveillance (FISA Section 702)
His campaign's platform says the government should be barred from buying private data to get around warrant requirements, and supports the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2026.^13,16
Cash bail and pretrial release
End or reduce cash bail, with judges deciding release based on risk
His campaign's platform calls for ending cash bail for nonviolent offenses so that pretrial detention is based on risk rather than wealth.¹³
Marijuana laws
His campaign's platform calls for federal cannabis legalization with automatic expungement of prior records, and supports the MORE Act and the SAFE Banking Act.^13,16
National Guard troops in cities
His campaign's platform says active-duty troops should not be deployed to detention centers or sanctuary cities, and that the National Guard, under civilian control, is the force for domestic use.¹³
Qualified immunity for police
End qualified immunity for police officers
His campaign's platform calls for ending qualified immunity and supports the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.¹³
Banking and investment rules
Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
His campaign's platform calls for restoring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to full operation, including its complaint handling, and extending consumer lending protections, such as annual-rate disclosure, to small business credit.^13,26
Collective bargaining for public employees
Guarantee bargaining rights for public employees nationwide
His campaign's platform says federal labor standards should be used to remove the restrictions on public-sector unions that Florida enacted in May 2026, and it lists him as opposing those restrictions.^13,16
Gig worker status
Classify more of them as employees
His campaign's platform calls for a federal ABC test for classifying workers, saying that misclassifying workers as contractors is a violation rather than a business model.¹³
Union organizing rules
Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
His campaign's platform supports the PRO Act, which it says would make it easier to form unions and harder for employers to break them.^13,16
Books in school libraries
State limits on removals, such as keeping challenged books available while they're reviewed
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing Florida's 2022 law requiring certified media specialists to review classroom library books, which it says led some teachers to empty their shelves, and its platform says challenged books should stay available during any review, with an independent panel of educators, parents and librarians deciding rather than a single complaint.^16,26
State K-12 school funding
His campaign's platform calls for funding public education fully and fairly and closing Florida's per-student funding gap.¹³
Student loan forgiveness
Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
His campaign's platform calls for canceling predatory for-profit student loan contracts and supports the LOAN Act, which it says would double the Pell Grant, fix Public Service Loan Forgiveness and cut student loan interest.¹³
US Department of Education
Keep the department and its programs, or expand it
His campaign's platform calls for restoring the Education Department's enforcement staff and auditing how Title I money was distributed while enforcement was reduced.²⁶
Drawing district lines (redistricting)
Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
His campaign's platform supports the Redistricting Reform Act of 2025, which it says would require every state to draw congressional maps through an independent commission.¹³
Federal workforce and job protections
Rehire for jobs cut since 2025 and restore job protections, such as by undoing the 2026 at-will rule
His campaign's platform supports the Saving the Civil Service Act, which it says would block the reclassification that strips career civil servants of job protections, calls for restoring staff cut at agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the IRS and the Education Department, and would require a 60-day congressional review before any agency lays off more than 100 workers, with reinstatement and back pay for workers laid off in violation of the rules.^13,26
Proof of citizenship to register to vote
His campaign's platform calls for challenging what it calls proof-of-citizenship registration traps, and its bill tracker lists him as opposing Florida's law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.^13,16
Stock trading by members of Congress
Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
His campaign's platform supports bills that would bar members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks.¹³
Term limits for Congress
His campaign's platform supports term limits.^13,27
Voter ID
His campaign's platform calls for accepting campus photo IDs as valid voter ID and for polling places on every college campus.²⁶
Voting by mail
Let any voter request a mail ballot without giving a reason
His campaign's platform calls for no-excuse absentee and mail voting nationwide and supports the Voter Empowerment Act of 2026, which it says covers early voting, automatic registration and protections for voting by mail.^13,26
Clean energy tax credits
Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back
His campaign's platform calls for restoring the clean energy tax credits.¹³
Data centers and electricity costs
Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
His campaign's platform says data centers should stop getting tax breaks that shift the cost of their power and water onto everyone else.¹³
Child care costs
Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
His campaign's platform calls for capping child care costs at 7% of family income, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Child Care for Working Families Act.^13,16
Food assistance (SNAP)
Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
His campaign's platform calls for restoring full federal payment of SNAP grocery benefits and rolling back the change that raised the SNAP work-requirement age from 54 to 64, and says SNAP cuts and housing instability should be addressed directly as the two strongest predictors of mental health crises.^13,20
Paid family and medical leave
Create a national paid leave program for all workers
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as supporting the FAMILY Act, which it says would make sure workers are paid when they take time off to care for a new baby or a sick family member.¹⁶
Foreign aid
His campaign's platform calls for rebuilding USAID after a program-by-program audit, restoring its disease surveillance, food security and democracy programs, and cutting programs that serve no American interest.²⁶
Who decides on military action
Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack
His campaign's platform calls for repealing the 2001 and 2002 war authorizations and replacing them with limited ones, and says there should be no sustained military engagement or unilateral strikes without a vote of Congress.¹³
AR-15-style rifles
Ban the sale of these rifles
His campaign's platform supports the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, which it says would ban the sale and manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons, and the Raise the Age Act, which would raise the minimum age to buy semiautomatic rifles to 21.^13,16
Background checks for gun sales
Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
His campaign's platform calls for universal background checks on every gun transfer, with no exceptions, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2025.^13,16
Red flag laws
Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
His campaign's platform calls for federal funding to help states carry out red flag laws, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act and opposing efforts to repeal Florida's red flag law.^13,16
ACA premium tax credits
His campaign's platform calls for restoring the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, saying about 1.4 million Floridians are at risk of losing coverage without them.²⁰
Drug prices compared with other countries
Require that all US buyers pay no more than other wealthy countries do
His campaign's platform calls for tying U.S. drug prices to an international index, allowing imports of FDA-approved drugs from countries with equivalent safety standards, and letting Medicare negotiate the price of every covered drug.²⁶
Federal Medicaid funding
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing federal Medicaid cuts that it says threaten more than 800,000 Floridians.^13,16
Medicaid work requirements
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing a Florida bill, SB 1758, that it says would impose Medicaid work requirements on more than 111,000 Floridians.¹⁶
Limits on rent increases
His campaign's platform calls for capping yearly rent increases at a federally defined affordability threshold.¹³
Zoning and new housing
Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
His campaign's platform calls for banning exclusionary zoning, state preemption of exclusionary zoning near transit corridors, and tying federal housing incentives to local zoning changes that allow more mid-sized housing, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Housing Supply Frameworks Act.^13,16,26
Asylum rules
His campaign's platform calls for more border funding to process asylum seekers humanely rather than detain them indefinitely, fully staffed immigration courts, and timely, fair asylum hearings.¹³
Immigration enforcement inside the country
His campaign's platform says immigration enforcement should shift from community sweeps to trafficking networks.¹³
Legal immigration levels
Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
His campaign's platform calls for eliminating per-country caps on employment-based visas, raising the annual number of green cards to reflect actual demand, and funding the federal immigration services agency to clear its case backlog.^13,26
Legal status for immigrants here without permission, including Dreamers
His campaign's platform calls for a clear, immediate path to permanent residency for Dreamers and supports the American Dream and Promise Act.^13,16
State and local role in immigration enforcement
His campaign's platform calls for repealing a Jacksonville ordinance that it says criminalizes undocumented presence, and its bill tracker lists him as opposing that ordinance, which also requires cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, and Florida's state immigration enforcement laws.^13,16
Medicare coverage of new tests and services
Add more services by law, such as permanent telehealth from home and testing and treatment by pharmacists
His campaign's platform calls for expanding Medicare to cover licensed counselors and marriage and family therapists, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Expanding Seniors Access to Mental Health Services Act.^13,16
Medicare drug price negotiation
Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance
His campaign's platform says Medicare should negotiate the price of every covered drug, not a limited list.¹³
Rules for citizen ballot measures
Make it easier to get measures on the ballot, and limit lawmakers' power to change voter-approved laws
His campaign's platform calls for federal protection of citizens' right to put initiatives on state ballots, petition verification independent of the legislature and review deadlines that lawmakers cannot extend, and it criticizes Florida's 60% threshold for blocking a measure most voters backed.^13,26
Business tax breaks
Cut back many of these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates, deficit reduction or other priorities
His campaign's platform calls for ending tax breaks for data centers and for large real estate investors, as part of redirecting about $620 billion a year in tax breaks that it says go mostly to corporations and high-income households toward deficit reduction and public programs.²⁰
Targeted tax breaks for individuals and families
Add or expand breaks for costs such as education savings, adoption and selling a home
His campaign's platform calls for targeted tax relief for teachers, nurses and first responders, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting a bill to raise the tax deduction for teachers' classroom supplies from $300 to $1,000.^13,16
Taxes on very large fortunes
A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
His campaign's platform supports a billionaire minimum income tax under which people with $100 million or more in assets would pay at least 20% a year.¹³
The president's power over approved spending
Add penalties and faster court enforcement when approved money is held back
His campaign's platform says withholding money Congress has approved is illegal and calls for giving Congress legal standing to sue when funds are frozen, automatic release of frozen funds 30 days after a court order with no appeal pending, and inspector general sign-off before any agency spending freeze lasts more than 30 days.²⁶
Children and social media
His campaign's bill tracker lists him as supporting the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0, which it says would require platforms to protect children from harmful content and bar ads targeted at children and teens.^13,16
Data privacy
His campaign's platform calls for a federal digital privacy law with real enforcement, data portability and meaningful consent before any commercial use of personal data.¹³
High-speed internet access
His campaign's platform calls for fixing the FCC's broadband map, which it says leaves millions of households out of federal broadband funding.¹³
Rules for artificial intelligence
His campaign's platform calls for putting consumer AI protections into law, impact assessments before AI systems are deployed, labeling of AI-generated images and video at the source, and congressional subpoena power over AI companies.¹³
Puerto Rico's political status
His campaign's platform supports a binding vote in Puerto Rico on statehood or independence, and says that support is about Puerto Ricans deciding rather than about statehood itself.^13,16
VA staffing
Hire more VA staff, including to replace jobs lost in 2025
His campaign's platform calls for fully funding VA health care with no cuts, no privatization and no workforce reductions, and for restoring the VA administrative staff that the Department of Government Efficiency cut, so the claims backlog can be worked down.^13,26

Todd Schaefer — 3 issues

Tariffs
His campaign website says tariffs should be a last resort to protect American industry and that American consumers are the ones who pay them.²⁸
Union fees and right-to-work laws
His campaign website says Florida's right-to-work laws have weakened workers' rights and lowered wages, and that he will fight to strengthen labor rights.²⁹
Child tax credit
His campaign website says half of the savings from his proposed American Prosperity Card Act would go to a stronger Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit for working families.³⁰

Issue statements are drafted by AI from the public sources cited, and only cover what each candidate has said publicly.

All 2026 races in Florida

Fact	Aaron Bean	LaShonda "L.J." Holloway	Mike Sell	Todd Schaefer
Party on the ballot	Republican^1,2,4	Democrat^1,2,5	Florida Forward Party^1,2,6,7	No Party Affiliation^1,2,8
Status	Incumbent⁹	Challenger	Challenger	Challenger
Raised	$2,682,267 through October 14, 2026¹⁰	$58,546 through October 14, 2026¹¹	$24,206 through October 14, 2026¹²	Not found in the public sources we checked
Cash on hand	$577,964¹⁰	$44,105¹¹	$4,857¹²	Not found in the public sources we checked
Social media content rules	Not found in the public sources we checked	Not found in the public sources we checked	Make platforms more legally responsible for harmful content, such as posts their algorithms promote His campaign's platform says platforms should be held accountable for documented harms to minors without being able to hide behind Section 230.¹³	Limit platforms' power to remove or hide lawful posts, for example by tying their legal protection to treating all viewpoints equally His campaign website says technology companies silence diverse voices through shadow banning, algorithms and removals, that limits on speech should come from the law rather than from big tech, and that he will push for protections against these erosions.¹⁴
Voting Rights Act protections	Not found in the public sources we checked	Her campaign website says voting rights should be protected so every eligible citizen can vote freely, securely and without barriers.¹⁵	Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act) His campaign's platform calls for restoring federal preclearance of voting changes in places with a record of voter suppression and supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.^13,16	Not found in the public sources we checked
Federal minimum wage	Not found in the public sources we checked	Her campaign website says full-time work should pay a living wage that covers food, housing, health care and transportation without government assistance.¹⁵	Raise to $15 or more His campaign's platform says every worker should earn at least $17 an hour, with the minimum wage indexed to inflation and productivity, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Raise the Wage Act.^13,16	His campaign website proposes a Fair Minimum Wage Act under which the federal minimum wage would rise each year with the cost-of-living formula used for Social Security and be adjusted by region using military housing allowance data.^17,18
Small business loans and programs	Not found in the public sources we checked	Her campaign website says small businesses need less red tape, more access to capital and protection from unfair competition by corporations.¹⁵	His campaign's platform calls for faster SBA loan applications and SBA technical help for worker-owned cooperatives.¹³	Not found in the public sources we checked
Campaign finance rules	Not found in the public sources we checked	Not found in the public sources we checked	His campaign's platform calls for small-donor public financing, barring coordination between candidates and super PACs and counting coordinated spending as a contribution, and supports the DISCLOSE Act.^13,16	Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United His campaign website says he would cosponsor the Abolish Super PACs Act, which it says would restore $5,000-a-year contribution limits for super PACs, along with stronger disclosure rules and limits on coordination, and says he will never take PAC money.¹⁹
Ranked-choice voting	Not found in the public sources we checked	Not found in the public sources we checked	Use ranked-choice voting in more elections His campaign's platform supports the Ranked Choice Voting Act, which it says would establish ranked-choice voting in House and Senate elections.^13,16	Use ranked-choice voting in more elections His campaign website says he will support any effort to bring ranked-choice voting to voters, while noting that it is decided at the state level.¹⁷
Military spending	Not found in the public sources we checked	Not found in the public sources we checked	His campaign's platform says the Pentagon should pass a financial audit before the next dollar is approved, and calls for shifting overseas conflict spending, not base operations or military pay, to infrastructure at home.^13,20	Cut military spending His campaign website calls for reducing defense spending through audits, base reductions and moving money to domestic needs.^17,21
Health insurance system	Not found in the public sources we checked	Her campaign website says affordable health care should mean lower premiums and drug costs, expanded Medicare coverage and guaranteed access to quality care for every American as a basic right.^15,22	One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All) His campaign's platform names Medicare for All as the goal and a public option as the immediate step, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Medicare for All Act.^13,16	One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All) His campaign website says a single-payer system would save up to $650 billion a year and that there should be no profit motive in health care, and it argues for universal health care.^17,23
Large investors buying single-family homes	Not found in the public sources we checked	Not found in the public sources we checked	His campaign's platform calls for ending the accelerated depreciation tax break for large real estate investors and limiting like-kind exchanges to smaller portfolios, saying these breaks drive institutional purchases of homes, and for tracking corporate landlord concentration by zip code.^13,20	His campaign website says institutional investors have driven up local rents and home prices, and that he would close the 1986 depreciation tax break for single-family rentals and, if possible, end investors' use of 30-year mortgages on rental properties.^17,24
Social Security benefit levels	Not found in the public sources we checked	Her campaign website says Social Security must be protected and strengthened so seniors and people with disabilities can retire with dignity and financial security.¹⁵	His campaign's platform calls for funding Social Security for 75 years with no cuts and no privatization.¹³	Not found in the public sources we checked
Federal income tax rates	His campaign website says taxes should be kept low so Northeast Florida stays a good place to work and hire, and that red tape on businesses should be cut.²⁵	Not found in the public sources we checked	His campaign's platform says corporations and the wealthy should pay their fair share with no tax shift onto working families, and supports closing the carried interest loophole.¹³	Not found in the public sources we checked