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David Serpa
David Serpa (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 39th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Serpa completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
David Serpa was born in Santa Clara, California. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2010 to 2013.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California's 39th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 39th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 39
Incumbent Mark Takano defeated David Serpa in the general election for U.S. House California District 39 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mark Takano (D) | 56.7 | 130,191 |
 | David Serpa (R)  | 43.3 | 99,469 | |
| Total votes: 229,660 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 39
Incumbent Mark Takano and David Serpa advanced from the primary for U.S. House California District 39 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Takano (D) | 55.5 | 48,351 |
| ✔ | | David Serpa (R) | 44.5 | 38,750 |
| Total votes: 87,101 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gene Corey (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Serpa in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
David Serpa completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Serpa's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- WATER: Water is the center of any successful society. We should line the coast with desalination plants, funnel fresh water inland, and make California farms green again. We continue to vote for water infrastructure to be built (2014), yet one-million Californians go without clean drinking water. We should invest in water infrastructure and grow the food the world eats here in California.
- ENERGY: Government needs to invest in nuclear energy. We need to stop shutting down nuclear facilities while forcing the burden onto taxpayers, mandating they place solar panels on their homes. We are an energy rich nation, behaving like an energy poor nation. Yet the people continue to be squeezed in their taxes, at the pump, and on their energy bills.
- DEFENSE: You do not have a country if you cannot defend it. We need to protect our country at the border. The Department of Defense has failed its 5th consecutive audit, unable to account for 61% of $3.5T throughout the globe. We now spend $887B a year on "defense" yet we can't protect our border. About 70% of these funds go to private military contractors. We need to stop spending so much money disrespecting other countries and denying their sovereignty, while not expecting these evils not to come home. Our problems and our solutions are here. We need to focus our time, energy, and our dollar here at home.
I want to focus on building water and energy infrastructure. We need to reindustrialize America.
I want Americans to have access to education and healthcare, instead of funding other countries education and healthcare. We spend more than any other developed country on healthcare, and we don't get it.
We need more doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers. An investment in education will create more taxpayers and solid American jobs. People are our most valuable and under-utilized resource on the planet.
I want to protect our border at the border. I want to stop de-stabilizing the world, creating a world refugee crisis, and indefinitely funding the Military Industrial Complex.
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Former Senator Mike Morrell
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Campaign website
Serpa’s campaign website stated the following:
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What is your stance on Abortion? I would like to create a society which is more conducive to life. For the first time in American history, the next generation is choosing not to have children. The #1 issue the homeless are facing in California is affordability. The average homebuyer is 49 years old. Less than 16% of people can afford to buy a house. We sold the American Dream, which belonged to our children, to the highest bidder. By 2030, it is projected institutional investors like Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street will own 40% of all Single-Family Homes. Why is this important? The statistics overwhelmingly show most abortions are done due to economic reasons. If the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, why are we always engaged in violence on the other side of the world. Let's create the Kingdom. We need to create an America our children want to bring life into. Who wouldn't want to bring children into the Kingdom of Heaven? I don't want to legislate away abortion. I want to help create a society through government, community, and faith organizations alike who look after the widows and orphans, are the hands and feet, and teach our young men to be worth the spark of life. What is your stance on the LGBTQ Community? I will not go after gay marriage. Marriage is a covenant. Government should not be making a business of covenants. Government doesn't belong in marriage, or divorce, in the first place. I would support doing away with all government recognized marriage entirely. Government gets paid when you get married, and twice as much if you get divorced. I want to protect the space of women and children. Children should not have their bodies chemically, or surgically altered before they reach the age of consent (18). I have no interest in denying the existence of Trans people, I just want to give children the opportunity to develop. The problem with this movement is it is counterintuitive to the narrative we have preached for years; there is a spectrum of masculinity within being a man and a spectrum of feminity within being a woman. We have always had women who acted more like, and identified with, men while not being a man. We have always had men who have been more feminine in nature, but they are no less men. To abandon gender is to abandon reason and to leave people vulnerable in a variety of spaces. We can love one another, however we may come, without abandoning basic reason. What is your stance on the 2nd Amendment? If the government believes we should disarm, I would applaud them in leading the movement. The 2A was not made for hunting, it was written into our constitution by men who had just violently overthrown their government. The Second Amendment protects the First Amendment. The same tyranny we have accepted abroad has come home to American soil. I have no interest in a violent revolution. I truly believe peace is the only way forward. What do you do the day after a violent revolution? I will continue to work towards, and advocate for peace. I have no interest in seeing Americans killing Americans on American soil. I have no interest in seeing a world, and our communities, exploding with violence, but they have divided and conquered us. This is all by design. It's time to stand together. Bring your guns if you'd like, but there is peace and strength in numbers. It's time to unify and build a better way forward.[2] |
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| —David Serpa’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 22, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ David Serpa for Congress, “FAQS,” accessed February 8, 2024
