Race · November 3, 2026

U.S. House · Kentucky's 1st District

2 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.

James R. Comer
Republican Party · Incumbent
Currently represents Kentucky's 1st District in the U.S. House.
John "Drew" Williams
Democratic Party · 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.

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James R. ComerJohn "Drew" Williams
Party on the ballotRepublican Party1,3Democratic Party1,3
StatusIncumbent4Challenger
Raised$2,318,361 through October 14, 20265$223,180 through October 14, 20266
Cash on hand$1,623,4325$7,9776

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.

James R. Comer — 2 issues
John "Drew" Williams — 31 issues
  • Farm payments and crop insurance
    Expand price supports, crop insurance or emergency aid
    His campaign website proposes rapid-response relief payments for small and family farms harmed by droughts, floods, severe storms or major trade disruptions, and expanded insurance options for diversified and specialty crop farms.8
  • Visas for farmworkers
    His campaign website proposes creating visa options for year-round agricultural jobs with fair wage requirements and protections allowing workers to change employers, along with clear application timelines for agricultural hiring programs.8
  • Police funding
    His campaign website proposes federal incentives for competitive pay and retirement benefits for public safety professionals, funding for body-camera programs, and mental-health professionals working alongside officers on behavioral-health calls.9
  • Banking and investment rules
    Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
    His campaign website proposes capping overdraft fees at $5, prohibiting fee-stacking and requiring banks to offer a fee-free basic checking account.10
  • Federal minimum wage
    His campaign website proposes a Living Wage Standard Act that would set cost-of-living-based regional wages, with a permanent wage schedule starting at $8 an hour for microbusinesses that rises with the number of employees.11
  • Gig worker status
    Classify more of them as employees
    His campaign website says he would prevent worker misclassification by enforcing a three-point test for independent contractors and ensuring employees have access to core benefits such as wage protections, overtime pay and unemployment insurance.11
  • Small business loans and programs
    Expand SBA loans, research awards and contracting help for small businesses
    His campaign website proposes grants and loan programs for microbusinesses in underrepresented areas, raising federal small-business contracting goals from 23% to 25% with tiered set-asides, and startup grants for worker- and community-owned co-ops.12
  • Tuition-free college
    Free tuition at community colleges
    His campaign website proposes federal-state partnerships for tuition-free community college and tuition-free years at public colleges for students who complete AmeriCorps service.13
  • Campaign finance rules
    Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
    His campaign website proposes banning outside political spending aimed at influencing voters in a candidate's district and giving every registered voter a Federal Democracy Account to replace the influence of large donors.14
  • Drawing district lines (redistricting)
    Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
    His campaign website proposes independent redistricting commissions in all states to draw congressional maps.14
  • Stock trading by members of Congress
    Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
    His campaign website proposes prohibiting members of Congress and their immediate family from trading individual stocks while in office and for four years after leaving.15
  • Term limits for Congress
    His campaign website proposes a Term Limits Reform Act limiting members of the U.S. House and Senate to four terms.15
  • Voter ID
    His campaign website proposes a National Voter Confirmation Act under which the most basic ID accepted for voting would cost nothing and poll workers could confirm a voter's identity from photo and signature records when no ID card is present, and it says voter ID that costs money acts as a poll tax.14
  • Data centers and electricity costs
    Pause or limit new data centers
    His campaign website proposes a National Data Center Moratorium Act that would pause new data center construction and expansion nationwide until Congress establishes national protections, and says data centers should pay the full cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades they require.16
  • Nuclear power
    His campaign website proposes expanding nuclear power by modernizing existing facilities and advancing Generation IV reactors through competitive research grants and milestone-based financing, with community benefit programs and independent safety oversight.17
  • Child care costs
    His campaign website proposes requiring child care providers funded through a Child Care Desert Operating Act to cap family payments at 7 percent of income, and expanding access to universal pre-K through federal-state matching grants.13,18
  • Paid family and medical leave
    Create a national paid leave program for all workers
    His campaign website proposes a Family Flex Leave Act creating a paid leave structure for parents, including adoptive and foster parents, and a Paid Sick Days Guarantee Act requiring five paid sick days a year for all workers.11,18
  • Drug prices compared with other countries
    His campaign website proposes capping prices of non-essential brand-name drugs at 1.5 to 2 times the prices in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and capping profit margins at 15% per dose for essential medications.19
  • Health insurance system
    His campaign website proposes insurance reforms including prohibiting fully automated claim denials without human medical review, requiring plain-language denial notices, requiring physician review of medical-necessity denials and banning insurer self-referral practices.20
  • Medicaid expansion
    His campaign website proposes a Farmhand Healthcare & Dignity Act that would extend Medicaid eligibility to full-time farmers and farmhands earning under $50,000 a year.8
  • Help for first-time homebuyers
    His campaign website proposes a federal guarantee covering standard closing costs for qualified first-time homebuyers and a fixed reduction in mortgage rates for first-time buyers.21
  • Large investors buying single-family homes
    Tighten the ban, such as by covering smaller investors or ending exceptions
    His campaign website proposes barring publicly traded companies, large private equity firms, REITs and other large corporate landlords from buying or holding single-family homes, phasing hedge funds out of single-family home ownership over 10 years, and a 45-day window in which only owner-occupants and first-time buyers can bid on listed homes.21
  • Limits on rent increases
    His campaign website says it supports improvements in rental housing with enforceable safeguards against excessive rent increases or displacement tied to publicly funded upgrades.17
  • Gas tax and road funding
    His campaign website proposes tying the federal gas and diesel tax rate to an oil price benchmark, reducing or suspending it when oil prices rise and gradually increasing it when prices fall.22
  • Passenger trains and Amtrak
    Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
    His campaign website proposes constructing dedicated high-speed rail lines connecting major metropolitan regions and modernizing existing rail corridors for regional passenger service.23
  • Federal income tax rates
    His campaign website proposes restoring a tax-free income floor of roughly $100,000, based on the 1913 exemption adjusted for inflation, and replacing tax brackets with a smooth scale rising from 1% at $100,000 to 35% at $1 million and continuing upward.22
  • Taxes on very large fortunes
    A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)
    His campaign website proposes a Wealth Accountability Act that would apply an annual 0.5% tax to net worth above $100 million, excluding retirement accounts and family homes, and a tax on investment growth above $15 million in assets that are not taxed.22
  • Data privacy
    Give people rights to see and delete their data and stop its sale, enforced by government regulators
    His campaign website proposes requiring opt-in consent for data sales and transfers and giving every American a federally protected right to view, correct, delete, download, transfer or sell their personal data, with penalties for refusal or delay.10
  • High-speed internet access
    His campaign website says broadband and cell coverage should be treated as essential utilities, with public utility service expanded where it is unprofitable for private companies and open access to publicly funded lines.23
  • Rules for artificial intelligence
    Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
    His campaign website proposes a Frontier AI Review Act requiring independent approval, including safety testing, before frontier AI models or major upgrades reach the public.24
  • State AI laws
    Set national rules as a minimum and let states add stronger ones
    His campaign website proposes a State and Local AI Authority Act that would make federal AI protections a minimum standard and protect state and local governments' authority to adopt stronger safeguards.25

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