Christy McLaughlin
Christy McLaughlin (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 23rd Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on August 23, 2022.
McLaughlin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Christy McLaughlin was born in Naples, Florida. She earned her B.A. from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2016 and her law degree from Ave Maria School of Law in 2019.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: Florida's 23rd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 23
Jared Evan Moskowitz defeated Joe Budd, Christine Scott, and Mark Napier in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 23 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Jared Evan Moskowitz (D) ![]() | 51.6 | 143,951 |
![]() | Joe Budd (R) ![]() | 46.8 | 130,681 | |
![]() | Christine Scott (No Party Affiliation) ![]() | 1.1 | 3,079 | |
![]() | Mark Napier (No Party Affiliation) ![]() | 0.5 | 1,338 |
Total votes: 279,049 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 23
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 23 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Jared Evan Moskowitz ![]() | 61.1 | 38,822 |
![]() | Ben Sorensen ![]() | 20.5 | 13,012 | |
Hava Holzhauer ![]() | 8.3 | 5,276 | ||
![]() | Allen Ellison | 6.2 | 3,960 | |
![]() | W. Michael Trout | 2.2 | 1,390 | |
Michaelangelo Hamilton ![]() | 1.7 | 1,064 |
Total votes: 63,524 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 23
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 23 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Joe Budd ![]() | 37.6 | 12,592 |
![]() | James Pruden ![]() | 22.1 | 7,399 | |
![]() | Darlene Cerezo Swaffar ![]() | 11.6 | 3,872 | |
![]() | Christy McLaughlin ![]() | 11.4 | 3,832 | |
![]() | Steve Chess ![]() | 8.5 | 2,840 | |
![]() | Ira Weinstein ![]() | 6.9 | 2,297 | |
![]() | Myles Perrone | 1.9 | 639 |
Total votes: 33,471 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jeff Olson (R)
- Saad Suleman (R)
Endorsements
To view McLaughlin's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
2020
See also: Florida's 19th Congressional District election, 2020
Florida's 19th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)
Florida's 19th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Florida District 19
Byron Donalds defeated Cindy Banyai and Patrick Post in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 19 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Byron Donalds (R) | 61.3 | 272,440 |
![]() | Cindy Banyai (D) ![]() | 38.7 | 172,146 | |
![]() | Patrick Post (D) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 3 |
Total votes: 444,589 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Antonio Dumornay (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 19
Cindy Banyai defeated David Holden in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 19 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Cindy Banyai ![]() | 57.6 | 28,765 |
![]() | David Holden ![]() | 42.4 | 21,212 |
Total votes: 49,977 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 19
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 19 on August 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Byron Donalds | 22.6 | 23,492 |
![]() | Dane Eagle | 21.9 | 22,715 | |
![]() | Casey Askar ![]() | 20.0 | 20,774 | |
![]() | William Figlesthaler ![]() | 18.3 | 19,075 | |
![]() | Randy Henderson | 7.6 | 7,858 | |
![]() | Christy McLaughlin ![]() | 4.1 | 4,245 | |
![]() | Dan Severson ![]() | 3.1 | 3,197 | |
![]() | Darren Dione Aquino ![]() | 1.4 | 1,466 | |
![]() | Daniel Kowal ![]() | 1.1 | 1,135 |
Total votes: 103,957 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Francis Rooney (R)
- Ford O’Connell (R)
- Heather Fitzenhagen (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Christy McLaughlin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McLaughlin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Economic Strength: make Trump tax cuts permanent; end Federal income tax; balanced budget legislation; establish American energy independence.
- Border Security: abolish Birth Right citizenship; terminate social welfare for illegal immigrants; no pathway to citizenship for deported illegal immigrants; finish building the Border Wall.
- Election Integrity: establish Federal Voter ID requirement; reserve state's authority over all other voter laws.
Furthermore, many educational institutions abuse their power and status to indoctrinate college students with leftist ideology. These colleges exert their influence on a young captive audience to politically engineer the next generation of leftist, socialists. Conservative students’ free speech rights’ are routinely infringed with impunity. Conservative students who suffer discrimination and retaliations from the overwhelming percentage of leftist professors who discriminate overtly and covertly have no recourse. The U.S. Department of Education protects educational institutions to avoid any consequences for acts of bad faith against students. We need:
I support downsizing and defunding several Federal Departments including the Dept of Education, Dept of Labor, Dept of Commerce, and Dept, of Interior.
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Campaign website
McLaughlin's campaign website stated the following:
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Economic Sanity: There is no doubt that our economy is worse off now than two years ago. Democratic control of the House and Senate and executive branch is responsible for the worst inflation in forty years. The political establishment’s spending is out of control. Democrats have added more than $2,000.00 a year in cost to the average American in the past year. The cost of essentials such as food, clothing, housing and gasoline are an increasing burden to low and middle class families. The Democrats spending bills include direct and indirect tax increases on hardworking Americans. The National Debt is more than $30 trillion with no solutions to reduce it. Therefore, the U.S. Dollar does not have the same purchasing power. Americans are subsidizing wasteful, pork barrel projects around the world. These insane, destructive policies must stop. The following are legislative solutions to improve the economy:
The United States is founded upon a checks and balance system in which the most powerful check on an overreaching government is the American Citizen. The citizen was given the voting power to form and direct governments’ power. But, in the last several decades there has been a pervasive consolidation and nearly tyrannical centralized control dictated from D.C. The current power of the Federal government vastly exceeds the scope of powers granted in the original United States Constitution. In order to maintain that power, the ruling class, mostly dominated by deeply entrenched elitists executed the greatest election theft ever in the history of the United States. The consent of the people was usurped by a coordinated, calculated criminal attack. The following are legislative limits on Federal government abuses of power:
It is simply common-sense to protect the environment. Who doesn’t want clean water to drink and swim and clean air to breathe? Florida’s water is essential to everyone’s quality of life and must be a priority for all elected officials in Florida. However, the global-warming-Greta-Thunberg-carnival-barkers are the fronts for the socialist globalist whose goal is to remove the U.S. as a global leader. No one disputes that the largest contributors to Carbon Dioxide Emissions is China, India and Russia. No one can dispute that carbon dioxide emissions decreased during the Trump Administration and subsequently increased during the Biden administration. The Paris Climate Accord’s main purpose is to drain the U.S. citizens of their hard earned tax dollars and transfer wealth from the U.S. to the rest of the world. No pressure is placed on the worst offending countries for decades. No true, patriot can support America’s participation in the Paris Climate Accord. However, the U.S. could become true leaders in environmental protection with clean natural gas, clean coal, new small nuclear plants, and lead technology advancements in renewable and energy saving devices. The “Let them drive electric cars” elitists cannot possibly make enough infrastructure and batteries to convert all the necessary trucks and cars to electric to make a difference. And they certainly haven’t added up all the drain on the electric grid which is mostly powered by fossil fuels.
Under the Biden administration, illegal immigration has hit an all-time high with more than a 45 million illegal alien population. A 2017 study revealed that illegal immigrants account for $100 billion in tax payer costs annually. The crisis at the border is largely due to inherently unfair and absurdly relaxed enforcement of immigration laws that allow and even incentivize illegal crossings at the border. The following are legislative solutions to the Border Crisis:
Life begins at conception. Repeat. Life begins at conception. To be pro-life is to be pro-woman and there is no greater virtue than to be a warrior and protector for the sanctity of an infant’s life. A woman’s body is no longer exclusively her own when she becomes the vessel for another human being. It is immoral and unconscionable to advocate for the killing of viable infant’s life for any reason except for the mother’s life. Any person from any political persuasion who advocates for the killing of viable infants up to and beyond birth are advocating for pre-meditated murder. The current legislation that legalizes abortion in the third trimester must be stopped. Any judicial nominee that will not protect the most basic of human right, the right to life, must be disqualified. There must be legislation passed to protect the life of the unborn from the moment of conception, without exception, but for the life of the mother as determined by a board certified doctor.
Government needs to stay out of everybody’s healthcare business. No one knows all the details and factors that go into making healthcare decisions except you. These very personal and private healthcare decisions rest solely between you and your doctor. Insurance companies and the government have increasingly encroached and restricted our right to make our own health decisions. Our current healthcare system is fraught with hardships and barriers to care. I believe we need to remove the mountains of regulations and requirements that interfere with access to healthcare and return healthcare to the free-market. I propose removing the middlemen from the delivery of healthcare and returning total control of healthcare to each individual. We should allow individuals or groups to purchase health insurance across state lines. The government should lift regulations that restrict the ability to purchase prescription drugs from other countries. As your Congresswoman, I will introduce legislation to allow the purchase of Medicare down to age 55. And I believe that healthy, well-developed children are our national treasure and children must be prioritized and cherished. I will sponsor legislation for universal Medicaid for children from birth to 18 years old. No parent should ever have to choose between child’s healthcare and feeding their family. This can be done by cutting exorbitant spending in other legislation.
Children are our most valued asset and must be cherished. Parents’ rights are fundamental and have a right to determine their children’s education. Just because parents send their children to a public school does not mean they forfeit their parental rights. No caring parent wants their children exposed to age-inappropriate education. And purposeful indoctrination of children towards one political viewpoint has no place in public education. Furthermore, many educational institutions abuse their power and status to indoctrinate college students with leftist ideology. These colleges exert their influence on a young captive audience to politically engineer the next generation of leftist, socialists. Conservative students’ free speech rights’ are routinely infringed with impunity. Conservative students who suffer discrimination and retaliations from the overwhelming percentage of leftist professors who discriminate overtly and covertly have no recourse. The U.S. Department of Education protects educational institutions to avoid any consequences for acts of bad faith against students. The following are legislative solutions to the educational institutions discrimination:
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—Christy McLaughlin's campaign website (2022)[4] |
2020
Christy McLaughlin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McLaughlin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Pro-Life is Pro-Woman. Life begins at conception.
- Students need protections of their Constitutional right to Free Speech on college campuses.
- Support appointments of Conservative judges that interpret the Consitution as written.
The sovereignty of our nation is defined by strong borders and legal immigration. In 1961, my mother's family legally immigrated to the United States from Cuba. Fleeing Cuba's socialist/communist regime, they lost everything, except what they could conceal in the hems of their pants. The United States was a beacon of freedom. They came to this country with the resolve of never returning to Cuba, learning English, adopting American culture and becoming American citizens. They did not come for handouts. They asked for nothing except for the opportunity to work hard and give back to this greatest of nations. Those who enter this country must abide by its laws. For everyone's safety and prosperity, those seeking to emigrate the United States must be vigorously vetted and documented. Citizenship is a privilege.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Candidate U.S. House Florida District 23 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Christy for Congress', "Meet Christy," accessed April 6, 2020
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 11, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Christy McLaughlin For Congress, “Issues,” accessed August 19, 2022