Elijah Norton
Elijah Norton (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on August 2, 2022.
Norton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Norton received a bachelor's degree in political science and government from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Norton founded RED Auto Protection, a vehicle service contract company, in 2011. In 2019, Norton founded Veritas Global Protection Services, a global vehicle insurance company. As of 2022, Norton lived in Scottsdale, Arizona.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: Arizona's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Arizona District 1
Incumbent David Schweikert defeated Jevin Hodge in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | David Schweikert (R) | 50.4 | 182,336 |
 | Jevin Hodge (D)  | 49.6 | 179,141 | |
| Total votes: 361,477 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 1
Jevin Hodge defeated Adam Metzendorf and Delina DiSanto in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Arizona District 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jevin Hodge | 61.9 | 46,144 |
 | Adam Metzendorf | 37.9 | 28,267 | |
 | Delina DiSanto (Write-in) | 0.2 | 175 | |
| Total votes: 74,586 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 1
Incumbent David Schweikert defeated Elijah Norton and Josh Barnett in the Republican primary for U.S. House Arizona District 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Schweikert | 43.6 | 52,067 |
 | Elijah Norton | 33.0 | 39,435 | |
 | Josh Barnett | 23.4 | 27,999 | |
| Total votes: 119,501 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kelly Townsend (R)
- Katherine Gallant (R)
- Steven Beaver (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Elijah Norton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Norton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Elijah grew up in the northern suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he achieved a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. During college, Elijah started his first business with $1,000 he had saved up. He worked and grew the business throughout college. In 2015, Elijah opened a second office in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. In 2021, Elijah’s collective group of businesses, including Phoenix-based Veritas Global Protection Services, INC an international Finance and Insurance administrative insurance business generated over $100MM per year in revenue and employed over 100 people.
In July of 2021, Elijah formed a committee to challenge Congressman David Schweikert for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District. In 2020, Schweikert admitted to committing 11 ethics violations, was unanimously reprimanded by the United States House of Representatives and was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine. Norton is looking forward to bringing ethical Conservative leadership back to the Northeast Valley.
- Will bring Conservative ethical leadership back to the northeast valley, corrupt career politician should be fired.
- Will bring actual healthcare insurance solutions to Washington, something Republicans have failed to do for decades.
- I'm a businessman and political outsider, we need people in Washington that understand how the real world functions. I intend to term-limit myself to eight years, I do not want to get too comfortable in my DC office and fail to do the job I was elected for, much like other career politicians. I will donate my salary to charities in the Northeast Valley and not participate in the Congressional pension program.
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Noteworthy events
Defamation lawsuit over David Schweikert's 2022 campaign
In February 2023, Elijah Norton sued David Schweikert’s 2022 campaign and associated political consultants over advertisements that implied Norton was gay. In late 2023, Norton reached a settlement with the Schweikert campaign. Political consultant Jonathan Huey also reached a settlement with Norton, in May 2024, for $50,000. Huey released the following statement: “As part of the settlement of outstanding legal issues between myself, the PAC and Mr. Norton, I am hereby acknowledging the attacks were false…these attacks were done to hinder Mr. Norton’s chances prevailing in the Republican primary.”[3]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
