Brenden Kelley (Ohio)
Brenden Kelley (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Ohio's 14th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on May 3, 2022.
Kelley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Ohio's 14th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Ohio District 14
Incumbent David Joyce defeated Matt Kilboy in the general election for U.S. House Ohio District 14 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | David Joyce (R) | 61.7 | 183,389 |
 | Matt Kilboy (D)  | 38.3 | 113,639 | |
| Total votes: 297,028 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 14
Matt Kilboy advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Ohio District 14 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Kilboy | 100.0 | 34,499 |
| Total votes: 34,499 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brenden Kelley (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 14
Incumbent David Joyce defeated Patrick Awtrey and Bevin Cormack in the Republican primary for U.S. House Ohio District 14 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Joyce | 75.7 | 58,042 |
 | Patrick Awtrey | 16.0 | 12,296 | |
 | Bevin Cormack | 8.3 | 6,364 | |
| Total votes: 76,702 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jill Eaton Simms (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brenden Kelley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kelley's 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 running for Congress because our representatives in Washington—and the massive corporations that paid to put them there—have forgotten people like you and me. And it is literally killing us. Since the pandemic began, 28 million Americans got sick, 600,000 people died, and 78 million lost their jobs. At the same time, America’s billionaires made more than $1.6 TRILLION. When a handful of people can accumulate so much wealth in the face of so much tragedy, something has gone wrong in this country.
- David Joyce and his colleagues in Congress have created a system that punishes victims and rewards the villains. Fortune 500 companies and their billionaire owners regularly pay no taxes, while you and I pay our fair share. Members of Congress have enriched their corporate supporters for years by opposing increases to the minimum wage. This has held down wages for our lowest-paid workers and kept wages stagnant for the middle class, even as the cost of living has gone up year after year. Washington delivered billions in corporate bailouts and tax cuts to companies like GM while allowing them to ship American jobs elsewhere, as they did in Lordstown.
- We have to fight to win back our country. We deserve a representative who listens to their constituents and goes to bat for them every day. We need a representative in Washington who recognizes our assets, understands what we need, and advocates to bring home the maximum resources to improve our region.
My brother Chris was in a rollover car accident when he was 18 and suffered a traumatic brain injury leaving him a quadriplegic. The insurance companies fought against paying for my brother’s care, and our out-of-pocket bills grew to more than $20,000 a month. After my father passed away, the insurance company cut off our coverage altogether.
As you might expect, our treatment by the insurance companies helped make health care policy a passion of mine. No family should be forced to go through what mine did. Fortunately, the Affordable Care Act prevented insurance companies from doing what they did to my brother and made insurance coverage affordable for millions of families. My opponent, Dave Joyce, however, voted more than 30 times to repeal the ACA without having any plan to replace it.
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See also
2022 Elections
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