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Jennifer Tran
Jennifer Tran (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 12th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Tran completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jennifer Tran was born in Oakland, California. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2010 and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2019. Her career experience includes working as a professor. As of her 2024 campaign, Tran served as president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California's 12th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 12th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 12
Lateefah Simon defeated Jennifer Tran in the general election for U.S. House California District 12 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lateefah Simon (D)  | 65.4 | 185,176 |
 | Jennifer Tran (D) | 34.6 | 97,849 | |
| Total votes: 283,025 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 12
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 12 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lateefah Simon (D) | 55.9 | 86,031 |
| ✔ | | Jennifer Tran (D) | 14.9 | 22,999 |
 | Tony Daysog (D) | 11.2 | 17,222 | |
| Stephen Slauson (R) | 6.3 | 9,710 | ||
 | Glenn Kaplan (D) | 4.4 | 6,799 | |
 | Eric Wilson (D) | 2.8 | 4,252 | |
 | Abdur Sikder (D) | 1.9 | 2,857 | |
| Ned Nuerge (R) | 1.6 | 2,535 | ||
 | Andre Todd (D) | 1.1 | 1,632 | |
| Total votes: 154,037 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jason Woody (D)
- Denard Ingram (D)
- Tim Sanchez (D)
- John Marks (D)
Endorsements
Tran received the following endorsements.
- U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D)
- Aspire PAC
- LPAC
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jennifer Tran completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tran's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- This election is a battle for the future of what it means to be progressive. Do we want a political system where a millionaire puppet candidate is bought and controlled by a single billionaire? Do we want someone who spent the past decade forcing the dangerous ideology of defunding the police making it to congress to continue spreading that destructive policy experiment? Or do we want a candidate who will bring sensible solutions, bold vision, and real progress? Congress is broken because politicians have forgotten how to make compromises and lead together as Americans. We need to find the ideas that both parties can agree on and make federal laws that benefit working Americans. We can't allow the billionaire class to buy congress.
- American city and municipal governments are bastions of corruption and ineptitude. These local governments have determined the outcomes of the foundations of our society - public safety, homelessness and economic decay. Have you ever traveled outside the US and seen a clean and safe city? Did you wonder like I did, why the richest nation in the world doesn't have cities like that? In my first 100 days in Congress, I will introduce a bill to the House floor called the Modern Cities Act (MCA). The MCA will create the cities of the future that we all deserve. This law will transform policing, end homelessness within two years, incentivize massive small business development, and usher in a new era of government fiscal transparency.
- The advanced stages of climate collapse are on the horizon. Most scientists agree that we have passed the critical tipping points for hyper-destructive temperature increases. Large swaths of the planet will become uninhabitable with lost capacity to grow food. We need solutions now. My climate position is that we need to invest heavily as a nation in innovative technologies that can capture greenhouse gases at scale to reverse the temperature increases humans have caused. That is literally our only hope of reversing this trajectory we’re on. Any politician who tells you that they want to transition to clean power sources over time by incrementally changing human behavior simply doesn’t understand how dire the situation already is.
Beyond the MCA, my priorities are climate change, immigration, human rights, education, and fiscal transparency for all levels of government.
We also need to reinvest in small business in a large way in order to keep up with other world economies.
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Campaign website
Tran's campaign website stated the following:
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The Modern Cities Act In my first 100 days in Congress, I’m going to introduce a bi-partisan bill to the house called the Modern Cities Act. This legislation will finally take our American cities into the 21st century we all deserve. We will modernize police departments in essential ways that dramatically improve public safety. We will repopulate our thriving commercial corridors by incentivizing small businesses. And we will pave the path to actually end homelessness in every city across the nation within two years. These problems are solvable and we have tangible solutions. But we need your support. We need you to spread the message to all your friends and family. We need you to donate so we can expand our reach. We need you to volunteer to register voters. We can absolutely do this if we do it together. What does the Modern Cities Act include? Public Safety 1. Establish federal standard for Police Departments
2. Integrate Mental Health into ALL aspects of policing
3. Re-establish Police Departments as Dignified Institutions of Public Service
Homelessness 1. Reopen state-run mental health hospitals 2. Invest in state-run drug addiction treatment hospitals 3. Expand housing voucher programs that prevent at-risk individuals from losing housing attached to mandatory job training and job placement 4. Establish Care Courts in every city where unhoused citizens are taken to humanely assess needs before placement Small Business & Workforce Development Expand Small Business Administration budget by $25B
Technology and Government Transparency 1. Create and Implement a phone app that tracks government spending at all levels – town, city, county, state and federal
2. Implement AI technology to find instances of waste and redundancy in government budgets to maximize savings[2] |
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| —Jennifer Tran'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 February 6, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jennifer Tran's campaign website, "Solutions," accessed September 18, 2024
