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Raafat Barsoom
Raafat Barsoom (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New Jersey's 11th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on June 4, 2024.
Biography
Raafat Barsoom was born in Cairo, Egypt, and lives in East Orange, New Jersey. Barsoom earned a medical degree from the University of Cairo in 1993. [1] His career experience includes working as a physician at the Hackensack UMC Mountainside Hospital. Barsoom has served as a board member for the North Jersey Developmental Center.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: New Jersey's 11th Congressional District election, 2024
New Jersey's 11th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 4 Democratic primary)
New Jersey's 11th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 4 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New Jersey District 11
Incumbent Mikie Sherrill defeated Joseph Belnome, Lily Benavides, and Joshua Lanzara in the general election for U.S. House New Jersey District 11 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mikie Sherrill (D) | 56.5 | 222,583 |
 | Joseph Belnome (R) | 41.8 | 164,556 | |
 | Lily Benavides (G)  | 1.2 | 4,780 | |
| Joshua Lanzara (Truth Freedom Prosperity Party) | 0.5 | 1,832 | ||
| Total votes: 393,751 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 11
Incumbent Mikie Sherrill defeated Mark DeLotto in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 11 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mikie Sherrill | 93.6 | 48,539 |
 | Mark DeLotto | 6.4 | 3,309 | |
| Total votes: 51,848 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 11
Joseph Belnome defeated John Sauers and Raafat Barsoom in the Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 11 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph Belnome | 86.8 | 25,608 |
 | John Sauers | 8.2 | 2,425 | |
 | Raafat Barsoom | 5.0 | 1,464 | |
| Total votes: 29,497 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Barsoom in this election.
2020
See also: New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2020
New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2020 (July 7 Democratic primary)
New Jersey's 7th Congressional District election, 2020 (July 7 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Incumbent Tom Malinowski defeated Thomas Kean Jr. in the general election for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tom Malinowski (D) | 50.6 | 219,629 |
 | Thomas Kean Jr. (R) | 49.4 | 214,318 | |
| Total votes: 433,947 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Incumbent Tom Malinowski advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on July 7, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Malinowski | 100.0 | 80,334 |
| Total votes: 80,334 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Thomas Kean Jr. defeated Raafat Barsoom and Tom Phillips in the Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on July 7, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Thomas Kean Jr. | 79.4 | 45,395 |
| Raafat Barsoom | 10.8 | 6,151 | |
 | Tom Phillips | 9.8 | 5,631 | |
| Total votes: 57,177 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Rosemary Becchi (R)
- Robert Trugman (R)
- James Barrett (R)
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Tom Malinowski defeated incumbent Leonard Lance, Diane Moxley, and Gregg Mele in the general election for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Malinowski (D) | 51.7 | 166,985 |
 | Leonard Lance (R) | 46.7 | 150,785 | |
 | Diane Moxley (G) | 0.8 | 2,676 | |
 | Gregg Mele (Freedom, Responsibility, Action Party) | 0.7 | 2,296 | |
| Total votes: 322,742 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Tom Malinowski defeated Peter Jacob and Goutam Jois in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Malinowski | 66.8 | 26,172 |
 | Peter Jacob | 19.1 | 7,503 | |
 | Goutam Jois | 14.1 | 5,507 | |
| Total votes: 39,182 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kurt Perhach (D)
- David Pringle (D)
- Linda Weber (D)
- Lisa Mandelblatt (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7
Incumbent Leonard Lance defeated Lindsay Brown and Raafat Barsoom in the Republican primary for U.S. House New Jersey District 7 on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Leonard Lance | 74.9 | 24,934 |
 | Lindsay Brown | 14.4 | 4,795 | |
| Raafat Barsoom | 10.7 | 3,556 | |
| Total votes: 33,285 | |||
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2013
- See also: New Jersey State Senate elections, 2013
Barsoom ran in the 2013 election for New Jersey State Senate District 29. Barsoom was unopposed in the June 4 Republican primary. He was defeated by incumbent M. Teresa Ruiz (D) in the general election on November 5, 2013.[3][4][5][6]
| New Jersey State Senate, District 29 General Election, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Teresa Ruiz Incumbent |
78.3% | 16,078 | |
| Republican | Raafat Barsoom | 17.7% | 3,636 | |
| Independent | Pablo Olivera | 3.9% | 808 | |
| Total Votes | 20,522 | |||
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Raafat Barsoom did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Barsoom's campaign website stated the following:
| “ |
The Cost of Open Borders
I will go to Congress and deny Sanctuary Cities that use tax dollars on illegal immigrants from getting federal funding.
As a practicing physician, I know that most of the healthcare costs DO NOT go to doctors and nurses, the true providers. Instead,
pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies receive the bulk of the payment. Many life-saving medications cost hundreds of dollars but can be purchased for only a few dollars in other countries.
Drugs and drug dealers are pouring over our nation’s southern border and they are causing death and destruction wherever they go. Shootings and drug overdoses are routine daily occurrences. Working at urban community hospitals I regularly see the results of fentanyl poisoning, drug overdoses and gang violence. I have seen a lot of young people die and one of the toughest parts of my job is to tell a teenager’s mother that her son or daughter is dead. I wish there was a day that I did not have to do that. I talk to the police about arresting the drug dealers and gang members; they tell me they do but in short order these criminals are either back on the streets or replaced by someone else selling drugs or guns. Why? Because liberal no-bail laws and liberal judges are forcing law enforcement to release criminals back to the streets hours after they are arrested. America must have strict border security and prosecutors who will use the law to protect the innocent, not the violent criminals. Much of the violence we are experiencing today stems from the failure of Congress to protect America from people coming into the country to do us harm.
Dr Barsoom, 56, is seeking the Republican nomination for the House of Representatives in Congressional District 11- which is now represented by liberal Democrat Mikie Sherrill. “I love America, my family and I are living the American Dream, but that dream is being shattered by extremists who are creating a nightmare for honest, hard-working Americans. I want to go to Congress and fight for the people that the Biden Administration and Mikie Sherrill are sacrificing to the progressive agenda,” said Dr. Barsoom. Among the issues that Dr. Barsoom says America must address to keep the American Dream alive for future generations are illegal immigration; crime, taxes and education. “Our country is being overrun by illegal immigrants who receive billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded aid despite having made no contributions to America,” says Dr. Barsoom. “Violent offenders prowl our neighborhoods, breaking into homes, stealing cars, and assaulting and killing innocent people — while our prosecutors do nothing to protect us” he continued. “The primary duty of government is to protect our nation’s sovereignty and keep our citizens safe. The Biden Administration and Mikie Sherrill are failing on both counts, notes Barsoom.” As an emergency room doctor at CareWell Health Medical Center in East Orange, Dr Barsoom deals with the impact of crime and drugs on the local population daily. “Sadly, every week I have to tell a mother that her son or daughter has died. I don’t want to go on doing that. I want to go to Congress and make a difference in people’s lives.” Dr. Barsoom was born in Cairo, Egypt to a Christian working-class family. He was admitted to the University of Cairo and earned a medical degree in 1993. He furthered his education at the American University in Cairo until he became a consultant to the United Nations Development Programs (UNDP) in Cairo. Dr. Barsoom opened a medical office in a poor neighborhood in Cairo and joined an American Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) managing United States aid to improve the health care of the local population. Unfortunately, his medical office was in a district of Cairo controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Being a Christian in that neighborhood was risky. After receiving numerous death threats, he fled Egypt with just $200 in his pocket. He entered the country visa legally in 1998. His Egyptian medical degree was not recognized in the United States; so, he was forced to work menial jobs to earn a new medical degree and raise enough money to bring his wife Eva and 7-year-old daughter to the United States. He worked a full-time job and studied to pass the medical exams necessary to become a licensed physician in America. Although times were tough for him and his family, he did not take a single penny from the government; believing ‘if you want money, you must work for it.’ He began his U.S. surgical residency at Jacobi and Montefiore hospitals in the Bronx, NY. He then started his emergency and trauma medicine residency at SUNY Downstate Hospital and Kings County Hospital, both in Brooklyn, N.Y. Eventually he and his wife earned enough money to buy a house in Belleville, NJ, where their son was born. In 2010 Dr Barsoom began practicing at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, NJ as an emergency room doctor. When the Covid 19 pandemic hit in 2020, he went to Texas and worked in a makeshift Intensive Care Unit with 95 beds for Covid patients.
“I came to America from a country where religious and personal rights, and political liberty were not recognized. Fortunately, I made it the United States and I am able to live the American Dream. I want others to live that dream too,” said Dr. Barsoom.
last year there were 356 homicides in NJ and 1365 homicides in NY, almost all committed with illegal guns and the majority were drug-related gang members. I spent 4 years working in Brooklyn hospitals and treated, on average, 5 – 10 gunshot victims every day. Our major cities are over-run with young people falling victims to drug dealers and criminals. We need to start focusing on taking these illegal weapons off the street! [7] |
” |
| —Raafat Barsoom's campaign website (2024)[8] | ||
2020
Raafat Barsoom did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2013
In an interview with the Belleville Times, Barsoom highlighted the concerns he has for his district, including high crime rates, high property taxes, unemployment and a lack of safety on the streets. Barsoom said, if elected, he would "push for more police in Newark, and more police presence on the streets."[2]
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Dr. Barsoom for Congress, "About," accessed May 30, 2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NorthJersey.com, "Belleville resident to run for State Senate," February 11, 2013
- ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "Official Primary Election Results," accessed July 26, 2013
- ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "Official general election candidates," September 9, 2013
- ↑ Associated Press, "New Jersey - Summary Vote Results," November 6, 2013
- ↑ New Jersey Department of State, "2013 Official General Election results," accessed December 5, 2013
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dr. Barsoom for Congress, “Issues,” accessed May 30, 2024
