Candidate · November 3, 2026

Rachel Peace

On the ballot for U.S. House · New Jersey's 4th District

DemocraticChallenger
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$101K
cash on hand
$14K
issues with public statements
20

§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 4th District1,2
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2
StatusChallenger
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.

Ballotpedia lists a bachelor's degree from Hofstra University and career experience in communications.3 Her campaign's policy page says she has collaborated with climate-focused nonprofits and startups in various parts of the country.4

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website says she is running to represent families in New Jersey's 4th District, and that she did not plan to run for office but felt she had to because no one else would run and win.5

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

Her campaign website says health care should be recognized as a right rather than a privilege, and that the U.S. can learn from health care models around the world to guarantee coverage.4

Family and Social Policy

Her campaign website says she supports guaranteed paid family leave, with 12 weeks of paid leave for every parent after having a child.4

Her campaign website says she supports guaranteed preschool starting at age 3 for everyone who wants it, under a section on guaranteeing child care.4

Her campaign website says she supports legislation like the Feed Hungry Veterans Act, which it describes as expanding SNAP eligibility for disabled veterans.4

Energy and Climate

Her campaign website says she supports investing in offshore wind projects that take ecological and aesthetic concerns into account, and wants to explore new hydroelectric infrastructure.4

Her campaign website says she supports a nationwide freeze on building AI data centers, including through the A.I. Data Center Moratorium Act, and would cosponsor a bill requiring developers to give communities advance notice and disclose impacts.4

  1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
  2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
  3. Pause or limit new data centers
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Education

Her campaign website says she supports legislation to reverse recent federal changes that reduced student eligibility for loans, encourages Congress to support loan forgiveness, and supports a cap on student loan interest rates and expanding forgiveness programs such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness.4

  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.

Housing

Her campaign website says she supports the Tenant's Right to Organize Act, which it describes as protecting renters' rights and prohibiting unfair rent increases.4

Her campaign website says she supports a bipartisan bill that would end corporate ownership of family homes.4

Her campaign website says she supports expanding homeownership programs, which it says have not kept pace with inflation or rising home prices.4

Her campaign website says she would cosponsor the End Veteran Homelessness Act and collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs on ending veteran homelessness.4

Economy, Jobs and Trade

Her campaign website says she believes in a national living wage that reflects economic conditions and price increases and moves with inflation, and notes that the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009.4

Elections and Government Reform

Her campaign website says she supports a constitutional amendment to repeal Citizens United and broader changes to campaign finance, including ending dark money donations.4

  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.

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

Her campaign website says she supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.4

  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.

Abortion and Reproductive Health

Her campaign website says she supports the Women's Health Protection Act, and refers in the same passage to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.4

Immigration

Her campaign website says she would work to end mass deportation and the privatization of prisons and detention centers, and supports a return to the pre-2003 Immigration and Naturalization Service.4

Technology, Privacy and AI

Her campaign website says she supports consumer protection and new government oversight of artificial intelligence.4

Foreign Policy and Defense

Her campaign website says service members should be brought home from the war in Iran and that the country should commit to spending money previously sent to the Pentagon on needs at home.4

Social Security and Medicare

Her campaign website says she wants to find solutions to Social Security's projected insolvency and would add her name to the Social Security Expansion Act, which it describes as consolidating existing funds and making benefits more accessible.4

Her campaign website says long-term care should be covered by Medicare and that she would support legislation such as the Medicare at Home Act to do that.4

  1. Add more services by law, such as permanent telehealth from home and testing and treatment by pharmacists
  2. Leave new coverage mainly to Medicare's own reviews of the medical evidence
  3. Add services only when savings elsewhere in Medicare cover their cost
Marked: the option their statement matches.

§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, 2026.7

Raised$101,426
Spent$86,994
Cash on hand$14,431
Debts owed by the campaign$19,412

Where the money came from

Individual donors$88K · 87%
PACs and other political committees$6,000 · 6%
The candidate's own money (gifts and loans)$6,712 · 7%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$217 · 0%

§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.