Candidate · November 3, 2026

Adam Hamawy

On the ballot for U.S. House · New Jersey's 12th District

DemocraticOpen seat
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$2.0M
cash on hand
$240K
issues with public statements
37
outside spending for or against
$1.9M

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · New Jersey's 12th District1,2
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2
StatusOpen seat — no incumbent is running for this seat.
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

His campaign website says he joined the New Jersey Army National Guard in 1989, graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick in 1991 and graduated from New Jersey Medical School in 1996.3 It says he began active duty in the U.S. Army in 2003, served as a combat trauma surgeon during the Iraq War and retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 2011.3 It says he opened his own medical practice in Princeton in 2013, began working as an attending surgeon in emergency rooms at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center in 2014, and earned an MBA from Rutgers University in Camden in 2018.3 It also lists volunteer medical missions to conflict and disaster areas, including Bosnia in 1994 and Gaza in 2024 and 2025.3

Why they say they're running

His campaign website says he is running to build a government that serves residents instead of special interests.3,4 It says he sees problems of affordability and authoritarianism and wants a new generation of leaders who will confront corruption and improve life for working families.3

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Health Care

His campaign website says he will fight for Medicare for All, a universal single-payer system with no out-of-pocket costs.3,5

  1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
  2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
  3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
  4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Social Security and Medicare

His campaign website says Medicare for All would also add hearing, dental and vision coverage.5

His campaign website says Medicare should be empowered to negotiate prescription drug prices, noting that Americans pay far more for prescription drugs than people in other countries.5

His campaign website says he supports protecting and expanding Medicare and Social Security benefits.5

  1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
  2. Keep the current benefit formula
  3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Abortion and Reproductive Health

His campaign website lists reproductive rights and bodily autonomy among its civil rights priorities and says he supports writing the right to abortion into federal law, with politicians not involved in decisions made by doctors and their patients.3,5

His campaign website says control over one's own body should not depend on where a person lives, and that he supports writing the right to abortion into federal law.5

  1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
  2. Leave abortion law to each state
  3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Education

His campaign website says he will fight efforts to dismantle the Department of Education and work to build a department that is stronger and more effective than before.5

  1. Close the department and move or end its programs
  2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
  3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website calls for public colleges and universities to provide education at no charge.5

  1. No free tuition program
  2. Free tuition at community colleges
  3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says it is time to cancel student debt.5

  1. Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
  2. Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
  3. Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
  4. Broad cancellation of student debt
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he opposes book bans in schools and libraries and lists fighting book bans and censorship among his education priorities.5

Immigration

His campaign website says he supports abolishing ICE, calls for holding its agents and their supervisors accountable through congressional hearings and prosecution, and says the Department of Homeland Security should be dismantled.4,5

  1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
  2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
  3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
  4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says undocumented immigrants who have built lives in the United States deserve an achievable path to citizenship, and that he will work to protect DACA recipients and mixed-status families from deportation.5

  1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
  2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
  3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
  4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

His campaign website says he supports restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act and protecting and expanding the right to vote.5

  1. 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)
  2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
  3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will oppose efforts that undermine the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans and support legislation to protect them, including the Transgender Bill of Rights, which it says would set clear federal anti-discrimination protections.5

  1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
  2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
  3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will fight to create an ethics code for Supreme Court justices that can be enforced.5

  1. Pass a law setting a binding ethics code, with outside review of complaints and recusal decisions
  2. Keep ethics rules in the court's hands, but have it add its own way to enforce them
  3. Keep the court's current code
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices.5

  1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
  2. Keep lifetime appointments
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports expanding the Supreme Court.5

  1. Add justices to the court
  2. Keep nine justices under current law
  3. Fix the number at nine in the Constitution
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Family and Social Policy

His campaign website says he will fight for a national program that gives every worker at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.5

  1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
  2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
  3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will fight for universal, high-quality child care and higher pay for child care workers.5

His campaign website lists ending childhood poverty among its economic justice priorities and says child poverty fell by almost half in one year under the expanded Child Tax Credit, then rose again after Congress let the credit expire.5

Economy, Jobs and Trade

His campaign website says he supports the PRO Act, which it says would make it easier for workers to organize and harder for employers to undermine unions.5

  1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says the minimum wage should be raised to a living wage.3,5

His campaign website says international trade agreements must include labor and environmental protections.5

Taxes and Budget

His campaign website says he will fight to tax wealth, not only income, and use the revenue for health care, education, housing and care programs.5

Foreign Policy and Defense

His campaign website says he supports significantly cutting the Pentagon budget and shifting spending toward priorities such as health care.5

  1. Increase military spending
  2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
  3. Cut military spending
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says Congress, not the president, holds the authority to declare war and authorize military force, and that Congress should reclaim that power.5

  1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
  2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
  3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports cutting off military aid to countries that commit gross human rights violations, and names Israel among them.5

  1. Increase military aid to Israel
  2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
  3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
  4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will work to reverse the dismantling of agencies such as USAID.5

  1. Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
  2. Keep foreign aid near its current level
  3. Cut foreign aid further or end most of it
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Energy and Climate

His campaign website says he will push for the United States to rejoin treaties such as the Paris Agreement and to follow through on its financial commitments under international climate agreements.5

  1. Rejoin the Paris Agreement and the UN climate treaty, and set new emissions goals
  2. Join only agreements that bind major emitters, such as China and India, to similar cuts
  3. Stay out of international climate agreements
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Veterans

His campaign website says he will fight attempts to privatize or defund the Department of Veterans Affairs and wants to expand its capacity so veterans can get care close to home, rather than being pushed toward for-profit alternatives.5

  1. Let veterans choose private doctors at the VA's expense whenever they prefer
  2. Write wait-time and drive-time limits into law, so veterans can use private care when the VA can't meet them
  3. Expand the VA's own hospitals and clinics, using private care mainly when the VA can't provide it
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says the PACT Act must be fully funded and implemented so veterans made sick by toxic exposure, including burn pits, do not have to spend years proving their service caused it, and that he rejects weakening veterans' benefits to pay for corporate tax breaks.5

Housing

His campaign website says he supports full funding for HUD-VASH housing vouchers and more transitional and permanent supportive housing, with the aim of ending veteran homelessness.5

Elections and Government Reform

His campaign website says he supports overturning Citizens United, including through a constitutional amendment, along with public financing of elections and full disclosure of dark money donors, and that he has committed to refusing corporate PAC money.5

  1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
  2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
  3. Keep current rules
  4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports a complete ban on stock trading for lawmakers, their spouses and senior officials in the executive branch.5

  1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
  2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
  3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports expanding early voting and voting by mail.5

His campaign website says he supports ending partisan gerrymandering.5

Infrastructure and Transportation

His campaign website lists transformative public transportation investments among its climate priorities, saying expanded public transportation infrastructure would better serve New Jersey commuters and the climate.5

§4Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.6

Raised$1,993,157
Spent$1,753,311
Cash on hand$239,845

Where the money came from

Individual donors$1.9M · 94%
PACs and other political committees$91K · 5%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$21K · 1%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $1,900,174 supporting and $0 opposing Adam Hamawy this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through May 27, 2026.7

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
AMERICAN PRIORITIES (AP)$1,553,845—
Justice Democrats PAC$191,329—
Medicare For All$150,000—
Christopher Street Project PAC$5,000—

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§5Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.