Clay Cope

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Clay Cope

Republican Party, Independent Party of Connecticut Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Clay Cope was a 2016 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 5th Congressional District of Connecticut.

Elections

2016

See also: Connecticut's 5th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Elizabeth Esty (D) defeated Clay Cope (R), Stephanie Piddock (I), and John Pistone (I) in the general election on November 8, 2016. No candidate faced a primary election in August. Cope defeated John Pistone and Matt Maxwell at the Republican convention. Esty won re-election in the November 8 election.

U.S. House, Connecticut District 5 General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Elizabeth Esty Incumbent	58%	179,252
	Republican	Clay Cope	42%	129,801
	N/A	Write-in	0%	29
Total Votes				309,082
Source: Connecticut Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Cope's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Stimulate Growth and Prosperity: The U.S. economy, based on free-market capitalism, is the greatest engine of wealth creation that the world has ever seen. Yet our economy today is not as strong, nor as robust, as it should be. It is hobbled by excessive Federal taxes that are collected to sustain perennially excessive Federal spending, which just siphons more and more money each year from our once-vibrant private sector. Balance the Federal Budget: The amount of our Federal debt -- $19 trillion and growing -- is just staggering. Yet no one in Washington seems to care. The massive debt has become part of the ingrained status quo. Reform the Immigration Process: With the rise and spread of ISIS and other terror groups around the globe, the problem of immigration reform in our country has taken on new urgency. Assure Our National Security: As news reports make clear, our nation and our citizens face a mix of well-known and rapidly emerging threats from around the world. I believe a government’s most fundamental role is to keep its citizens safe. And I will demand that our government do exactly that. Second Amendment: Disarming law-abiding Americans does not protect anyone from acts of terrorism, from the rare, random violent acts of the mentally impaired, or from the risk posed by everyday criminals.	”
—Clay Cope's campaign website, http://www.claycope.com/#!issues/a5y0j

See also

• United States House of Representatives
• Connecticut's 5th Congressional District election, 2016
• Connecticut's 5th Congressional District

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website
• Facebook page
• Twitter feed

Footnotes

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Connecticut's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Richard Blumenthal (D)

Christopher Murphy (D)

Representatives

District 1

John Larson (D)

District 2

Joe Courtney (D)

District 3

Rosa DeLauro (D)

District 4

Jim Himes (D)

District 5

Jahana Hayes (D)

Democratic Party (7)