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Jeff Bell (New Jersey)

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Jeff Bell
Republican Party
Elections and appointments
Last election
November 4, 2014

Jeff Bell was a 2018 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey.[1] He died in February 2018.[2]

Bell was a 2014 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey.[3] He was defeated by incumbent Cory Booker (D) in the general election.[4] He won the Republican nomination in the primary on June 3, 2014.

Elections

2018

See also: United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2018

The filing deadline was on April 2, 2018, and the primary election took place on June 5, 2018.

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U.S. Senate election in New Jersey
Poll Poll sponsor Menendez HuginSabrinUnsure/Someone else/Wouldn't VoteMargin of ErrorSample Size
Quinnipiac University
(October 29 - November 4, 2018)		N/A 55%40%0%5%+/-4.01,115
Stockton University
(October 25-31, 2018)		N/A 51%39%3%6%+/-4.0598
Vox Populi Polling
(October 27-29, 2018)		N/A 54%46%0%0%+/-3.4814
Emerson College
(October 24-26, 2018)		N/A 47%42%0%7%+/-4.0659
Rutgers University
(October 12-19, 2018)		N/A 51%46%0%4%+/-5.1496
Note: A "0%" finding means the question was not a part of the poll. The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org



2014

See also: United States Senate elections in New Jersey, 2014

Bell ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent New Jersey. He lost to incumbent Cory Booker (D) in the general election.[4] Bell won the Republican nomination in the primary on June 3, 2014. The general election took place on November 4, 2014.

U.S. Senate, New Jersey General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngCory Booker Incumbent 55.8% 1,043,866
     Republican Jeff Bell 42.3% 791,297
     Libertarian Joe Baratelli 0.9% 16,721
     Independent Jeff Boss 0.2% 4,513
     Independent Antonio N. Sabas 0.2% 3,544
     Democratic-Republican Eugene Lavergne 0.2% 3,890
     Economic Growth Hank Schroeder 0.3% 5,704
Total Votes 1,869,535
Source: New Jersey Division of Elections
U.S. Senate, New Jersey Republican Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJeff Bell 29.4% 42,728
Rich Pezzullo 26.2% 38,130
Brian Goldberg 25% 36,266
Murray Sabrin 19.4% 28,183
Total Votes 145,307
Source: New Jersey Division of Elections - Official Election Results

Campaign themes

2014

Bell listed the following themes on his campaign website. [5]

“
  • Restoring Middle Class Prosperity: "America was founded on the idea that hard work gets you ahead. But that social contract has withered away owing to dysfunctional government policy that favors the wealthy while necessitating huge budget deficits to provide a safety net large enough to support those left behind. Despite advances in technology that have improved the standard of living, it has become harder for working people to support a family and for young people to establish a career. The next U.S. Senator from New Jersey must be a tireless advocate for solutions that restore the middle-class prosperity that was once a hallmark of this nation."
  • Real Universal Healthcare: "How is it, so many ask, that America is the richest country in the world and so many people here can’t afford healthcare? This is because we have essentially priced ourselves out of a marketplace for healthcare. The emphasis on employer-based insurance at the expense of individually-owned coverage has destroyed the prospects for competitive pricing that exists in most other areas of the U.S. economy. We must change this by enabling individuals to purchase and control their own health insurance with a tax credit."
  • Education Our Children Deserve: "The opportunity for a quality education should not depend on where a child lives, as Gov. Chris Christie has emphasized in his town hall visits throughout New Jersey. That’s why programs to expand school choice, through vouchers and tax credits, have been worthwhile for those states that have done it.
    I believe Education Savings Accounts make the most sense as the appropriate vehicle for school choice. These provide parents with a pre-funded account (in Arizona, where it was first implemented, it’s 90 percent of average student spending) that can be used to purchase tuition, but also textbooks, education therapies, and tutoring. This provides for a holistic funding mechanism for education where we fund children rather than institutions and spending decisions are in the hands of parents, not bureaucracies."
  • A Culture of Life: "Abortion is one of the saddest facts of modern America. There are over one million abortions per year, and a total of 53 million since Roe v. Wade enabled abortion on demand in 1973. In New Jersey, the abortion rate is 26 percent, among the highest in the nation. Rather than seek to reduce the number of abortions, the Democratic Party has promoted a culture that misrepresents abortion as consequence-free and morally neutral. In 2012, a Democrat committee co-chaired by Cory Booker removed the word “rare” from the phrase “safe, legal, and rare” coined by President Clinton that had been in the party platform.
    Abortion is not only tragic on its own terms: it violates the founding principle in the Declaration of Independence of a right to life. The need to apply this self-evident truth to the unborn has become much more apparent in the last four decades because of discoveries in the field of DNA and advances in the technology of the sonogram."
  • Religious Freedom: "It is dismaying that religious freedom is under attack by government. Whether it’s Obamacare’s HHS mandate or judges overruling voters on the definition of marriage, it has become harder than ever to be a person of faith in this country without the government abrogating those beliefs.
    The institution of marriage in particular has been subject to this trend. Marriage began as a religious concept, but now the courts, including in New Jersey, have decided that its definition is up to them rather than the people. If this trend continues, how long will it be before our churches can no longer act according to their beliefs on marriage? Cory Booker implied that those who believe in traditional marriage are akin to the segregationists who tried to keep Jackie Robinson from playing baseball. Is that what it has come to in New Jersey – a U.S. Senator who compares believing in traditional marriage with racism?"[7]
 ”
—Jeff Bell's campaign website (2014)

Campaign finance summary

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Federal Election Commission, "BELL, JEFFREY," accessed August 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Washington Post, "Jeffrey Bell, GOP Senate candidate and architect of Reaganomics, dies at 74," February 22, 2018
  3. ↑ New Jersey Division of Elections, "Official List of Candidates for US Senate," accessed April 10, 2014
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Politico, "2014 New Jersey Senate Election Results," accessed November 5, 2014
  5. ↑ Jeff Bell for U.S. Senate, "Issues," accessed April 14, 2014
  6. ↑ Campaign website archive
  7. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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