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Democratic Party

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March 5, 2024

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Adam Barajas (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 6th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.

Barajas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Adam Barajas was born in California.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: California's 6th Congressional District election, 2024

California's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House California District 6

Incumbent Ami Bera defeated Christine Bish in the general election for U.S. House California District 6 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Ami Bera
Ami Bera (D)
 
57.6
 
165,408
Image of Christine Bish
Christine Bish (R) Candidate Connection
 
42.4
 
121,664

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 287,072
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 6

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 6 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Ami Bera
Ami Bera (D)
 
51.8
 
76,605
✔
Image of Christine Bish
Christine Bish (R) Candidate Connection
 
20.1
 
29,628
Image of Raymond Riehle
Raymond Riehle (R)
 
10.7
 
15,779
Image of Craig DeLuz
Craig DeLuz (R) Candidate Connection
 
9.7
 
14,361
Image of Adam Barajas
Adam Barajas (D) Candidate Connection
 
5.9
 
8,711
Image of Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson (G)
 
1.8
 
2,661

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 147,745
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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Adam Barajas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Barajas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I'm a Bernie Sanders progressive Democrat. I take no money from corporations, billionaires, Super PACs or lobbyists. I've worked as a delivery driver at Amazon, overnight stocker at Walmart, dishwasher and food prep at local diners, and currently work as a retail worker at a grocery store. I was inspired by Bernie Sanders and Martin Luther King to get into politics and now I want to follow in their foot steps and continue their work in fighting for the impoverished not only in this country but eventually around the world.
  • I support Medicare-For-All. Millions of people are uninsured or under insured, 45,000 people die every year due to lack of access to basic healthcare, and millions of people are rationing their prescription medication all because it's all too expensive; people can't afford their health. As a congressman I fight to eliminate the Medicare minimum age requirement and grant healthcare to all ages and expand coverage to dental, vision, hearing, mental and all prescription medication. Medicare-For-All also saves about $400billion per year, which can be spent on improving wages, benefits and working conditions for healthcare workers and on building more hospitals and hiring more staff.
  • I support abortion rights and bringing back Roe v Wade. We must ban states from outlawing abortion and we must put massive public pressure on the Supreme Court to reverse their recent Roe v Wade decision; maybe by implementing term limits for Supreme Court justices and having them voted in as opposed to being chosen by the President.
  • End Israel's terrorism and genocide on the Palestinians. We must block all weapons and money from going to Israel; we can't be aiding a genocide. We must also arrest the Israeli officials responsible and put them on trial for war crimes.
Medicare-For-All, tuition free college, cancel all public student loan debt, $20 minimum wage, rent assistance, universal childcare, paid family and medical leave, immigration reform, police reform, gun reform and corruption. We must end poverty.
I am an avid reader and have many books that I consider crucial to my political and personal mindset. I recommend "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig, "Justice Is Coming" by Cenk Uygur, "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink, and "Courage Is Calling" and "Stillness Is The Key" by Ryan Holiday.
Politicians can't take corporate, billionaire or Super PAC political donations. all money must come from the working class in order to represent the working class. Not only must they be focused on improving the well-being of the people, but must also have the leadership and backbone to not get sidelined from the corporate politicians. We can't be weak or naive. People are tired, stressed, over-worked, and see no hope for positive, life altering change. That ends with me.
Improving the well-being of all people. Exposing the corruption going on in Washington, and willing to take heat from the media for being an outsider and standing up against the establishment of both parties.
I will end poverty.
It's a mixed bag. On one hand, we don't need career politicians staying in power for decades, getting comfortable managing our lives. Term limits also bring in new people with fresh mindsets. On the other hand, Bernie Sanders has kept his hands clean and has been fighting for the working class, by himself, for the past 40 years. If we had term limits for Congress, he wouldn't be able to serve us as well as he had and instead there would be zero uncorrupt Congress members fighting for us. During the Covid pandemic, Bernie Sanders got us the extra $600 in unemployment that we desperately needed. If he wasn't in Congress, how much worse would it have been.
Bernie Sanders
It depends on what the policy is about. In terms of Medicare-For-All, there is no compromise; healthcare is a human right and is also fiscally responsible because it saves nearly half a trillion per year. $20 min wage, there is no compromise to go lower. Bringing back Roe v Wade, there is no compromise. Universal childcare, there is no compromise. Tuition-free college, there is no compromise. Public homeless shelters to end homelessness, there is no compromise. Ending the Israeli genocide on Gaza ASAP, there is no compromise.

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Campaign website

Barajas’s campaign website stated the following:

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1. Medicare For All

  • Eliminate the Medicare age requirement and expand healthcare coverage to all people as a right.
  • Increase benefits to fully cover dental, hearing, vision, mental, drug rehab and all prescription medication.
  • No premiums, co-payments, or deductibles.
  • $25 minimum wage for all healthcare workers.
  • Cancel all medical debt.
  • Invest in building more hospitals, doctors’ offices and in hiring more staff.

2. Tuition Free College

  • Public colleges, universities, and trade schools will no longer charge tuition.
  • All public K-12 and college schools will provide classes, books, student supplies, meals and transportation for all students, fully tax funded.
  • Cancel all student loan debt.
  • $25 minimum wage for all school staff.
  • Invest in building more public schools.

3. Rent Assistance

  • Provide $1,000, per month, to all households that spend more than 30% of their income on rent.

4. Universal Food Stamps/ Food Insecurity

  • Provide $200 in food stamps, per month, to all people as a right.
  • Invest in public funded food banks and local farms to provide freshly grown food to all people, for free, as a right.

5. $20 Minimum Wage

  • Raise the federal minimum wage to $20/hour.
  • Provide financial aid by covering half of wages for small businesses that make less than $50 million per year.

6. 4-Day Work Week

  • Establish a 4-day, 32-hour full time work week for all public and private sector jobs, while maintaining monthly income.
  • All hours worked over 32 hours per week, and over 8 hours per day, will be over-time pay at time and a half.
  • Stop taxing over-time pay.

7. Paid Time Off

  • Mandate all private and public sector jobs to provide at least 8 weeks of paid vacation, sick, and family leave.
  • Mandate all private and public sector jobs to provide at least 40 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave.
  • Provide financial aid to small businesses that struggle to afford the benefits.

8. Student Wage/ Child Poverty

  • Each public college and university student receives $500 per class, per month, up to max of $2,000 per month.
  • Each K-12 public school student receives $500 per month in a bank account controlled by the legal guardians that must be spent on the student in the form of childcare or saved for the student’s future.
  • Public college and university students must have a passing grade at all times to continue to receive wages.

9. Universal Childcare

  • Provide public funded, high quality, daycare centers and preschools.
  • $25 minimum wage for all childcare workers.

10. End Homelessness

  • Provide public funded homeless shelters for all people in need.

11. Public Energy and Water Utilities

  • Nationalize the energy utility industry and construct solar farms around the country to provide free energy to all households as a right, tax funded.
  • Invest in providing all households with working air conditioning and heating as a right.
  • Nationalize the water utility industry and provide clean running water to all households as a right, tax funded.

12. Green New Deal/ Climate Change

  • Invest in industrial hemp innovations to replace oil, fuel, plastic, wood, paper, rope, cotton, steal, and concrete, which will absorb carbon from the atmosphere and make our plastic and oil biodegradable.
  1. Hemp biofuel will allow us to use much of our current energy and transportation infrastructure, which will save us time and money.
  2. Remove the 0.3% THC limit and lesson the stringent regulations to allow farmers easy access to the hemp crop.
  • End deforestation, oil drilling and coal mining.
  • Overtime, transition our transportation, energy and manufacturing infrastructure towards green and renewable technology.

13. Israel/ Palestine Genocide

  • I strongly oppose Israel’s use of terrorism to enact a genocide on the Palestinian people and will urge for an immediate ceasefire, as well as do anything I can to block weapons from going to Israel.
  • I will also call for the prosecution of Israeli officials and military personnel responsible, on war crimes.
  • I don’t take the Israeli lobby’s money, nor do I want it.

14. Protect Abortion Rights

  • Propose a bill that will ban states from outlawing abortion; and do whatever I can to create public pressure on Congress to vote for the bill and on the Supreme Court to reverse their recent Roe v Wade decision.

15. Immigration Reform

  • I strongly oppose the CBP One app, which is drastically slowing down the asylum seeking process. Keeping thousands of people at the border waiting months, in trash infested tent camps with no medical assistance or humane treatment , for an appointment on an app, for which they aren’t provided a phone or internet service to apply for.
  • Grant all undocumented immigrants with immediate asylum status and provide a pathway to citizenship.
  • While during the citizen process, immigrants must be provided food, water, beds, proper shelter, showers, medical assistance, education, and humane counseling.
  • Once undocumented immigrants go through the legal process and become citizens, I want them to enjoy the progressive social and economic policies I support for all Americans. To lift all people out of poverty and to have the financial security, free time, and education to pursue their passions and ideas.

16. Police Reform

  • Establish immediate termination and criminal prosecution of police officers for:
  1. abusing authority and violating a civilian’s civil rights.
  2. unreasonably responding violently and brandishing a weapon towards a non-violent civilian.
  3. causing the injury or death of a non-violent civilian.
  • Mandate all cops to wear body cameras.
  • Demilitarize the police and reallocate funding towards peaceful de-escalation training and law/ constitutional education.
  • Ban all private prisons and detention centers.
  • End qualified immunity for all police officers.
  • Promote officers that exhibit a history of humane and compassionate judgment, and a proper defense of civilians’ civil rights to key leadership positions.
  • $25 minimum wage for all police officers and firefighters.

17. Gun Reform

  • Ban the sale of firearms by unlicensed private sellers at gun shows and private citizens. People can only sell to and buy from licensed gun dealers.
  • Universal criminal background check when purchasing a firearm.
  • Mandatory 2-week waiting period before receiving the firearm.
  • Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
  • Mandatory gun insurance.
  • Mental health evaluation at gun purchase and every 4 years after that in order to renew license.
  • Licensing process must include a written test on the laws and safety precautions of owning a firearm and must include a training and handling coarse; should be like getting a driver’s license.
  • Gun buyback program.

18. Legalize Weed/ End the Drug War

  • Federally legalize weed and free all non-violent drug offenders.
  • Decriminalize all drugs and stop imprisoning people for non-violent drug offences.
  • Fund drug education and rehabilitation.

19. Education Reform

  • Fund financial education, covering: personal finance, debt, taxes, laws, banking, investment, assets and liabilities.
  • Fund business/ entrepreneur education, covering: leadership skills, public speaking, regulations, licensing, taxes, payroll, real-estate, product development, and marketing.
  • Fund character development education, covering: psychology, ethics, skeptical thinking, hygiene, nutrition, and communication/ social skills.

20. Corruption

  • Ban all corporate and super PAC political donations.
  • Ban all lobbying.
  • Ban all politicians from holding any investments and from having any other forms of income other than their salary as a public servant.

21. Taxes

  • Substantially raise taxes on corporations that make more than $200 million, in profit, per year.
  • Cut taxes for small businesses that make less than $50 million per year.
  • Raise the Capital Gains interest rate for those who make more than $300,000 per year.
  • Enact a wealth tax for people with more than $1 million in net worth.
  • Ban corporate stock buybacks and offshore tax havens, and tax all of the money that is held there at 100%.
  • Stop all corporate subsidies and cut defense spending by 60%.
  • Raise taxes on people who make more than $400,000 in income per year.
  • Cut taxes by at least 50% for people who make less than $70,000 in income per year.
  • Stop taxing over-time pay.[2]
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—Adam Barajas’s campaign website (2024)[3]

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Adam Barajas campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House California District 6Lost primary$450 N/A**
Grand total$450 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 5, 2024
    2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    3. ↑ Adam Barajas District 06, CA, “End Corruption, End Poverty,” accessed January 27, 2024


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