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U.S. House, District 8: who gets your vote?

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ROB MENENDEZ

ROB MENENDEZ

U.S. House · New Jersey District 8

NationalDemocrat

Candidate
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ARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOS

Running for U.S. House · New Jersey District 8

NationalIndependent

ROB MENENDEZCurrent repARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOSChallenger

Job fit

ROB MENENDEZ

Other work

  • An attorney, Rob previously worked at the national law firm of Lowenstein Sandler LLP. 1

Education

  • Rob earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. 2
  • Rob earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. 2

ARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOS

Education

  • EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: St Peter's: Bachelors Degree 3

Top issues

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How they voted on top issues

ROB MENENDEZ

  • Elections that are easy to vote in and hard to cheat → Making it easier to vote (4 of 4 votes) 4
  • What kids are taught in school → Teachers deciding, with lessons that include everyone (4 of 4 votes) 4
  • Fair trade and prices at the store → Free trade and lower tariffs (3 of 3 votes) 4

ARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOS

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Who pays them

ROB MENENDEZ

Where the campaign money came from5

small donorslarge donorscompaniesindustry associationslabor unionsOther kinds of donors
small donors$13Klarge donors$1.1Mcompanies$320Kindustryassociations$101Klabor unions$101KOther kinds ofdonors$165K$1.9M raised
$13,3375Small individual donors
$1,113,7905Large individual donors

ARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOS

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Checks

ROB MENENDEZ

Checks run: missed votes

Nothing raised by these checks.

Not checked yet: stock trades

ARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOS

No voting record to check yet

Based on current data. May change in a future update.

Sources

  1. Biography · checked 2026-10-14 used in: Experience
  2. About · checked 2026-10-14 used in: Experience
  3. NJ8 candidate profile: Aristotle Eliopoulos · checked 2026-10-26 used in: Experience
  4. Congress.gov roll-call votes · 2022-11-04 to 2026-11-04 used in: How they voted on top issues
  5. FEC · 2026 cycle used in: Money
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Candidate A

ARISTOTLE ELIOPOULOS

IndependentShown above

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

Sources

1 Background: NJ8 candidate profile: Aristotle Eliopoulos · checked 2026-10-26

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Candidate B

CRAIG HONTS

Socialist Workers Party

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Sources

1 Background: 2 Socialists Launch Congress Bids In NJ: Kuniansky, Honts Hit The Campaign Trail · checked 2026-10-21

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Candidate C

DA'SHONE HUGHEY

Independent

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

Sources

1 Background: About · checked 2026-10-14

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ROB MENENDEZ
Candidate D

ROB MENENDEZ

DemocratShown above

🚩 $1.9M raised, 59% from large donors, 39% from organized interests. Group coverage unverified: filing cutoffs and receipt scope have not been reconciled. Named amounts are not a complete split of the filed PAC total.
Filed PAC total: $734,489.23 (39% of $1,900,654.16 raised), 2026 cycle.
Named group amounts (not a complete filed split): $686,699.00, Group filing cutoff unavailable. Group source

Their votes pushed for: cutting pollution and moving to clean energy, more legal ways in, and protection for people already here, government spending and worker protections.

Sources

1 Background: Biography · checked 2026-10-14

2 Background: About · checked 2026-10-14

3 The money: FEC · 2026 cycle

4 Roll calls: Congress.gov roll-call votes · 2022-11-04 to 2026-11-04

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