Damon Galdo

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Damon Galdo

Republican Party

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Last election

June 4, 2024

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Philadelphia, Pa.

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Construction Superintendent

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Damon Galdo (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New Jersey's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on June 4, 2024.

Biography

Damon Galdo lives in West Deptford, New Jersey. Galdo graduated from La Salle College High School in 1999. His career experience includes working as a carpenter foreman and construction superintendent.

Elections

2024

See also: New Jersey's 1st Congressional District election, 2024

New Jersey's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 4 Republican primary)

New Jersey's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 4 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House New Jersey District 1

Incumbent Donald Norcross defeated Theodore Liddell, Robin Brownfield, Austin Johnson, and Joseph Spataro in the general election for U.S. House New Jersey District 1 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Donald Norcross (D)	57.8	208,808
		Theodore Liddell (R)	40.0	144,390
		Robin Brownfield (G)	1.6	5,771
		Austin Johnson (Independent)	0.6	2,091
	Submit photo	Joseph Spataro (American People's Freedom Party) (Write-in)	0.0	0

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 361,060
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1

Incumbent Donald Norcross advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1 on June 4, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Donald Norcross	100.0	61,308

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 61,308
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1

Theodore Liddell defeated Claire Gustafson and Damon Galdo in the Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1 on June 4, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Theodore Liddell	47.3	10,843
		Claire Gustafson	37.9	8,687
		Damon Galdo	14.9	3,410

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 22,940
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Nicholas Whitelock (R)

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Galdo in this election.

Pledges

Galdo signed the following pledges.

• Taxpayer Protection Pledge, Americans for Tax Reform

2022

See also: New Jersey's 1st Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House New Jersey District 1

Incumbent Donald Norcross defeated Claire Gustafson, Patricia Kline, Isaiah Fletcher, and Allen Cannon in the general election for U.S. House New Jersey District 1 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Donald Norcross (D)	62.3	139,559
		Claire Gustafson (R)	35.2	78,794
		Patricia Kline (For the People)	1.5	3,343
		Isaiah Fletcher (L)	0.7	1,546
		Allen Cannon (Cannon Fire)	0.3	642

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 223,884
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1

Incumbent Donald Norcross defeated Mario De Santis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1 on June 7, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Donald Norcross	76.7	44,985
		Mario De Santis	23.3	13,696

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 58,681
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Scot John Tomaszewski (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1

Claire Gustafson defeated Damon Galdo in the Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 1 on June 7, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Claire Gustafson	69.0	13,411
		Damon Galdo	31.0	6,034

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 19,445
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Elaine DeAngelo (R)

Campaign themes

2024

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Campaign website

Gado’s campaign website stated the following:

“	End the Biden/Norcross Spending Catastrophe Joe Biden, Donald Norcross, and the rest of the Democrats in the federal government have destroyed our economy. Soaring gas and food prices have forced working-class families to choose between a full tank of gas or a full plate of food for themselves and their families. They're using your hard-earned tax dollars to fund their radical climate agenda, to house illegal immigrants, and to fund wars overseas while they leave us broke and wondering how we are going to afford to get by. When I'm in Congress, I will put a stop to Biden's tax-and-spend nightmare. I will vote against any and all legislation that increases your taxes or causes the inflation rate to go up. I will propose legislation that creates new jobs and restores old jobs that were lost due to Biden's recklessness and I will help to create an economy where the people of America make more money and keep more of the money that they make. Restore our Energy Independence Immediately after he took office in 2021, Joe Biden ended construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, banned off-shore drilling, and pulled all of the federal drilling and fracking permits. Not only did this cause energy prices to skyrocket, but it cost tens-of-thousands of union workers their jobs. As a union worker myself, I took this personally, and I don't intend to let Joe Biden or Donald Norcross cost another worker their career. In 2019, we were not only energy independent, but energy dominant. When I'm in Congress, I will propose and support legislation that will allow us to drill for oil, mine for coal, frack, and invest in nuclear energy research. We will once again be both energy independent and energy dominant. Bring Down the Crime Rate and Restore Law and Order It's no secret that our major cities, all of which are Democrat-run, are infested with crime. Murder, rape, and gang violence are just a few of the things that Joe Biden and the Democrats have allowed to get out of hand in our nation. When you walk out your front door, you have to wonder if that's the day you will lose your life to the senseless crime that Joe Biden and Donald Norcross have allowed to go on for the past 3 years. As your congressman, I will help to restore law and order to our society. I will propose and support tough-on-crime legislation. We will end the crime spree and put the real criminals behind bars, once and for all. Seal Up the Border and End the Illegal Immigration Crisis Every day, when I turn on the news, I see videos of a wide-open border with thousands of illegal immigrants pouring across it daily. I see ICE agents standing to the side and letting them come through because Joe Biden and the Democrats have threatened their careers if they even try to stop the illegals from coming in. When the state of Texas took control of its section of the border, Joe Biden sued the state of Texas and forced them to unsecured their border, allowing more illegals to pour in. Human and drug trafficking is at its highest rate in modern history, and it has all been made possible due to Joe Biden and Donald Norcross' open-border policies. Deadly fentanyl is flooding into out country across the US-Mexico border. It's killing our children and poisoning our communities. When I'm in Congress, I will propse that we reinstate the "Remain-In-Mexico" policy. I will propose a ban on sanctuary for illegals. I will support ending DACA, DAPA, Catch-and-Release, and all other programs that facilitate illegal immigration and benefit illegal immigrants, and I will support rebuilding the wall. This crisis has become the top issue threatening our nation next to the poor economy and the skyrocketing crime rate. I will do everything in my power to stop it. End the Radical Indoctrination of Our Children in School Our children are being indoctrinated by their teachers and other school officials, and the Democrats are facilitating it. Sexually-explicit reading and learning materials have been discovered in public school classrooms across the nation. Teachers are pushing radical, woke race and gender theories on our children behind closed doors. School officials are threatening the education of children whose parents raise concerns regarding these woke teaching standards and are blocking parents from having a say in their childrens' education. When I look at my children, I am reminded of these heinous, disgusting acts, and I fear for their future. This cannot go on, and when I'm in congress, I will make sure it doesn't. I will help to restore parental rights, ban sexually-explicit reading and learning materials from the classroom, hold teachers and other school officials accountable who indoctrinate our children, and otherwise end the radical-left's assault of our children. End the Mental Health Crisis in America Our nation is going through a serious mental health crisis, and the Democrats are not only turning a blind eye to it, but helping to make it worse. When children say they are confused about their gender, instead of getting them the psychological help that they need, the Democrats push the medical society to recommend that these children take hormone blockers and go through a gender-transition surgery. Many of these children grow up in regret of having their bodies mutilated. This is a sad and disgusting practice, and we must put a stop to it. When I'm in congress, I will propose a ban on hormone blockers and gender-transition surgery for anyone under the age of 18. I will push for the government and the medical society to officially recognize transgenderism (aka gender dysphoria) as a mental illness, and I will expand access to mental healthcare programs for anyone who is suffering from gender dysphoria or any other mental illness. End Big Tech's Assault on Free Speech Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and many other social media platforms have a bad habit of banning accounts that they personally disagree with, even if that account did not violate their community guidelines. This has all been made possible by Section 230, a measure that allows Big Tech companies to censor and ban any content that they deem as inappropriate. Because they have abused this power time and time again, it's time we take this power away from them. When I'm in congress, I will propose legislation to repeal section 230 and restore the rights of the people to speak freely on social media, even if the Big Tech giants disagree with it. You are protected by the First Amendement and therefore have the inalienable right to speak freely.	”
—Damon Galdo’s campaign website (2024)

2022

Damon Galdo did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

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Damon Galdo campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House New Jersey District 1	Lost primary	$17,593	$17,739
2022	U.S. House New Jersey District 1	Lost primary	$2,045	$1,830
Grand total			$19,638	$19,569
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

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New Jersey's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Cory Booker (D)

Andrew Kim (D)

Representatives

District 1

Donald Norcross (D)

District 2

Jeff Van Drew (R)

District 3

Herbert Conaway (D)

District 4

Chris Smith (R)

District 5

Josh Gottheimer (D)

District 6

Frank Pallone (D)

District 7

Thomas Kean (R)

District 8

Robert Menendez (D)

District 9

Nellie Pou (D)

District 10

LaMonica McIver (D)

District 11

Mikie Sherrill (D)

District 12

Bonnie Coleman (D)

Democratic Party (11)

Republican Party (3)