Candidate · November 3, 2026
Winston Jordan
On the ballot for U.S. House · New Jersey's 12th District
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§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. House · New Jersey's 12th District1, |
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| Party on the ballot | GET MONEY OUT1, |
| Status | Open seat — no incumbent is running for this seat. |
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§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.
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Ballotpedia's biography says he spent 1976 to 1978 in the U.S. Army.3 It lists his work as an IT professional and an author.3
Why they say they're running
His campaign website says he is running to get money out of politics, accepting no donations from anyone and paying for the campaign from his own funds.4 It says that if elected he would spend all of his time on the district rather than on fundraising and would act as a sponsor or cosponsor of H.R. 415, the Stop Act.4
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§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.
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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.
Elections and Government Reform
His policy platform website lists overturning Citizens United, banning dark money and supporting H.R. 415 (the Stop Act), which would keep sitting lawmakers from raising money themselves for political committees; his campaign says it accepts no donations of any kind.4,
- Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
- Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
- Keep current rules
- Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
His policy platform website lists a pledge of no PAC or corporate donations and no stock trading among its accountability pledges.5
His policy platform website lists 18-year term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court.5
- Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
- Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
- No term limits
His policy platform website lists support for ranked-choice voting.5
- Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
- Let each state or city decide
- Ban ranked-choice voting
His policy platform website lists independent redistricting to end gerrymandering.5
- Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
- Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
- Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose
His policy platform website lists civil service protections to defend the government workforce.5
Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties
His policy platform website lists 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices as well as for Congress.5
- Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
- Keep lifetime appointments
His policy platform website lists ethics enforcement for the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary as part of restoring the courts' independence and accountability.5
His policy platform website lists strengthening the Voting Rights Act and restoring its protections.5
- 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)
- Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
- Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn
His policy platform website lists protecting DEI initiatives and blocking federal rollbacks of them.5
- Ban DEI offices, training and hiring goals in government, public colleges and federal contractors
- Allow DEI programs, but bar any that favor people by race or sex
- Keep DEI programs, and restore those ended in 2025
His policy platform website lists strong civil rights enforcement by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, including expanded and explicit protections for LGBTQ+ people in employment, housing, education and health care.5
- Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
- Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
- No new federal protections; leave it to the states
Tribal Nations, Territories and DC
His policy platform website lists statehood for Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.5
- Make most of DC a state, with two senators and a voting House member
- Keep DC a federal district with its own elected local government
- Give Congress or the president more direct control over DC's local government
His policy platform website lists statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC.5
- Make Puerto Rico a state
- Keep it a US territory
- Make it an independent country with close ties to the US set by treaty (free association)
- Make it a fully independent country
Taxes and Budget
His policy platform website proposes a $50 billion wealth cap on individuals and taxation of wealth above $50 billion to pay for infrastructure and other programs.5
His policy platform website lists a 50-year tax holiday for the bottom 99% as part of its American Economic Security Act.5
His policy platform website lists addressing the property tax burden to ease costs for New Jersey residents.5
Social Security and Medicare
His policy platform website lists doubling Social Security payments to guarantee a livable retirement income.5
- Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
- Keep the current benefit formula
- Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees
Education
His policy platform website lists cancelling all existing student loan debt, which it describes as restitution for decades of reduced public funding of higher education.5
- Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
- Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
- Broad cancellation of student debt
His policy platform website lists making all community college free nationwide and returning to earlier federal subsidies for private and state universities so that students pay between several hundred and a few thousand dollars per semester.5
- No free tuition program
- Free tuition at community colleges
- Free tuition at public colleges and universities
Health Care
His policy platform website lists single-payer Medicare for All with no premiums or copays at the point of care and free choice of provider, and says he would first pilot a VA+ national health care program in the district.5
- One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
- Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
- Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
- Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Abortion and Reproductive Health
His policy platform website lists guaranteeing abortion access and defending reproductive freedom in the district against federal rollbacks.5
Technology, Privacy and AI
His policy platform website lists expanding broadband access in underserved neighborhoods, digital equity grants for low-income families and municipal broadband options, and his campaign website says high-speed internet should be treated as a utility like water and electricity, with large technology companies paying access fees to fund it.5,
His campaign website says its AI policy would add enforceable protections for areas including deepfakes and digital likeness, privacy, children, creators, displaced workers and high-risk systems, and his policy platform website lists requiring companies to publish assessments of how new AI tools would affect workers before using them.5,
- Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
- Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
- Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI
Infrastructure and Transportation
His policy platform website lists making NJ Transit more reliable and on time and electrifying NJ Transit's buses and trains, and its infrastructure investment plan includes upgrading NJ Transit.5
Energy and Climate
His campaign website says developers of data centers should cover the costs of the electricity supply, grid, water, roads and emergency services their facilities need so residents do not subsidize them through taxes or utility rates, and his policy platform website lists requiring developers to pay in advance for their own substations, interconnection lines and transmission upgrades.5,
- Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
- Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
- Pause or limit new data centers
Veterans
His policy platform website lists protecting VA staffing and services for New Jersey veterans.5
Family and Social Policy
His policy platform website lists a federal standard for paid family and medical leave.5
- Create a national paid leave program for all workers
- Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
- Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states
His policy platform website lists expanding pre-K and child care access, including universal pre-K.5
Housing
His policy platform website lists support for first-time homebuyers through fair financing.5
Foreign Policy and Defense
His policy platform website lists ending unauthorized wars, repealing outdated military authorizations and requiring Congress to authorize the use of force.5
- Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
- Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
- Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack
His policy platform website lists returning to verifiable nuclear non-proliferation agreements with Iran through diplomacy rather than war.5
- Tighten sanctions further and use military force if needed to stop Iran's nuclear program
- Keep sanctions in place, easing them only if Iran ends all uranium enrichment
- Negotiate a deal that eases some sanctions in exchange for verified limits on Iran's nuclear program
His policy platform website lists supporting Ukraine with aid paired with anti-corruption oversight and diplomacy, sanctions on Russia and a path to NATO membership.5
His policy platform website lists an independent audit of the Pentagon, limits on what defense contractors charge and redirecting the savings to other investments.5
His policy platform website lists scaling up global health, education and climate finance in place of militarized interventions.5
- Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
- Keep foreign aid near its current level
- Cut foreign aid further or end most of it
Economy, Jobs and Trade
His policy platform website lists trade agreements with high labor and climate standards and opposition to investor-state dispute settlement provisions.5
Immigration
His policy platform website lists restoring asylum and expanding refugee resettlement.5
His policy platform website lists restoring asylum, guaranteeing due process and counsel, and staffing immigration courts with more judges and support staff, and says there should be no violations of asylum law at the border.5
His policy platform website lists abolishing ICE in its current form, with accountability for people in the agency who committed crimes and immigration enforcement rebuilt under a new framework.5
- Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
- Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
- Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
- Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records
His policy platform website lists a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including Temporary Protected Status holders and long-settled immigrants.5
- No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
- Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
- Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
- A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks