Winston Jordan

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U.S. Representative, District 12 New Jersey General | November 3, 2026

Liberal

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

Hunter College, New York

WORK & MILITARY

US Army, Specialist 4, 1976-1978

AFFILIATIONS

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POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

United States Representatives, 2026-

QUESTIONNAIRE

RIGHT TO LIFE

Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.

Neutral

Winston Jordan strongly advocates for reproductive freedom and a woman's right to choose, viewing abortion access as essential to human rights, healthcare, and economic equality. He supports restoring Roe v. Wade, deferring decisions to women and medical professionals within statutory limits. In Congress, he vows to protect abortion access, repeal the Hyde Amendment, expand affordable birth control, and oppose government restrictions.

The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.

Neutral

Winston champions reproductive autonomy and individual choice regarding human embryos, including access to fertility treatments and family planning. He supports the right to donate or discard embryos, provided any research is strictly regulated and requires explicit consent from the creators. Guided by reproductive freedom, ethics, and personal dignity, he opposes any unauthorized use of embryos.

Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?

this is a decision within the scope of the mother family faith and physician

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).

Neutral

Winston supports full public funding—including Title X grants—for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood to ensure equitable healthcare access. He advocates repealing the Hyde Amendment, recognizing that restrictions disproportionately harm low-income individuals, rural communities, and women of color. Tied to his Demand-Side Economic Plan, he views comprehensive reproductive healthcare as essential for economic security, social justice, and bodily autonomy.

The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.

Neutral

Winston strongly opposes the Comstock Act, viewing it as an outdated law that threatens reproductive autonomy and disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Grounded in the principles of Roe v. Wade, he advocates repealing the law to protect private healthcare decisions made between individuals and their providers. In Congress, Winston promises to expand abortion access, eliminate government interference, and protect healthcare providers from prosecution.


ECONOMY

Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.

Neutral

Winston agrees that free enterprise and private property are essential, but believes they must be paired with demand-side economics to ensure broad prosperity. To prevent large corporations from skewing the system, he balances private enterprise rights with key equity measures: targeted support for small businesses, progressive taxation on the ultra-wealthy, worker-owned enterprises, community land trusts, and fair regulatory reform

People who can afford to pay more taxes should do so in order to provide relief for working families.

Neutral

Winston strongly agrees that wealthier individuals and large corporations should pay more in taxes to provide relief for working families. Grounded in his demand-side economic plan, he advocates for progressive taxation to reduce income inequality, lighten the burden on low-income households, and fund targeted support for small businesses and local entrepreneurs.

The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.

Neutral

Winston disagrees with cutting public spending to reduce national debt, rejecting austerity in favor of demand-side economics and "FDR 2.0" policies. Instead of reducing investments in working families, healthcare, and education, he advocates addressing deficits by reversing Reaganomics—raising revenue through Eisenhower-era tax rates on the ultra-wealthy and corporations—while redirecting federal resources from military spending to public investment.

List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.

To eliminate government waste, Winston targets corporate welfare, defense bloat, and profit-extracting middlemen. His priorities include auditing military spending to end foreign interventionism, cutting out private insurance intermediaries in favor of direct public healthcare, ending corporate tax subsidies, and stopping lobbyist influence. By shifting from top-down corporate giveaways to demand-side investments, he ensures taxpayer dollars directly benefit working families.


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.

Neutral

Winston supports freedom of religion and association, allowing private religious organizations to set internal, membership-based practices. However, he draws a strict line at public enterprise and basic human rights: religious claims cannot be used to discriminate in general public accommodations, withhold essential healthcare, or deny equal civil rights. He supports private association rights provided they do not infringe upon broader public civil rights laws.

What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?

To Winston, separation of church and state guarantees religious freedom while keeping faith out of public policy. It ensures anyone can practice any faith—or none—free from government interference, while strictly preventing religious doctrine from being codified into law or used to deny civil rights, healthcare, or public access. Faith is a protected private conscience, but democracy, civil rights, and equal protection under the law must govern public life for all.


HEALTHCARE

What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.

Winston's view most closely aligns with Option A. He firmly believes healthcare is a fundamental human right and that profiting off human illness is immoral. His platform calls for a single-payer, government-funded system like Medicare for All, eliminating profit-driven private insurance middlemen and corporate extraction so that every public dollar directly supports patient health and universal care.

The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.

Neutral

Winston Strongly Disagrees with creating a government medical database. While tracking population health trends is valuable for public health, collecting individual medical data to measure "economic burden" invites severe privacy violations and corporate or state abuse. Winston treats healthcare as a human right, not a financial liability. Public policy should focus on lowering treatment costs and eliminating health disparities, not monitoring ill citizens under economic framing.


NATIONAL SECURITY

With regard to America's foreign policy, which view most closely resembles yours: A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others' policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.

Winston's view aligns with Option C. He advocates ending foreign interventionism, preemptive aggression, and legacy imperial basing, arguing that military overreach has proven ineffective and costly. Instead of military entanglement abroad, Winston prioritizes national sovereignty, diplomacy, and international peace—believing federal resources should be redirected away from defense contractors and global conflicts toward pressing domestic needs at home.

The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.

Neutral

Winston recognizes CCP threats to military, cybersecurity, IP, and the economy. Rather than war or corporate trickle-down economics, he counters these threats with proportional, non-escalatory statecraft—including hardened cyber defenses, IP safeguards, and active diplomacy. To match China's economic reach, Winston focuses on domestic strength: eliminating poverty and unleashing American human capital through targeted investments in workforce education, innovation, and public infrastructure.

Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?

Winston views alliances—including with Israel—as out of balance when military aid undermines international law, human rights, and global peace. Under his "Healthcare, Not Bombs" initiative, foreign relations are only important if centered on diplomacy and humanitarian stability rather than unconditional military subsidies. Winston prioritizes ending foreign entanglements and redirecting taxpayer billions away from global conflicts to fund urgent domestic needs like universal healthcare.

Islamic terrorism is a threat to the United States' national security.

Neutral

Winston acknowledges terrorism threatens security, but isolating concerns to "Islamic" terrorism is discriminatory and ignores equal threats from domestic extremism. He opposes religious profiling, endless foreign wars, and surveillance state expansion. Winston advocates treating all terrorism strictly as criminal acts under existing law, backed by diplomacy and civil liberty protections—reallocating military spending toward domestic priorities like healthcare and infrastructure.


IMMIGRATION

Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?

Winston advocates a humane, streamlined immigration system focused on family unity, clear pathways to citizenship, and robust humanitarian protection for refugees and asylum seekers. He rejects militarized borders and mass deportations, recognizing that immigrants strengthen the economy and cultural fabric. Winston prioritizes expanding legal channels, protecting Dreamers, and ensuring fair labor standards for all workers to prevent economic exploitation.

I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.

Neutral

Winston agrees that non-citizens within the U.S. and its territories are fully entitled to constitutional protections, including due process and equal protection under the law. He supports local policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, emphasizing that local resources should protect community safety rather than aid deportations. Winston maintains that safeguarding constitutional rights for everyone, regardless of citizenship status, is essential to justice.


EDUCATION

I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.

Neutral

Winston Jordan strongly opposes abolishing the Department of Education, advocating instead to strengthen it to fully fund public education as a human right. He supports federal funding to guarantee tuition-free public education from pre-K through community college and 4-year degree programs. Winston believes federal oversight is essential to eliminate inequality, protect civil rights, and ensure every student—regardless of zip code or property wealth—has access to high-quality, debt-free educati

Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.

Neutral

Winston Jordan advocates managing foreign education funding on a case-by-case basis through direct consultation with educators. He rejects blanket bans, arguing that policy must balance constitutional rights, academic freedom, national security, and the public interest. By evaluating foreign partnerships individually alongside educational professionals, Winston ensures American institutions remain secure and transparent without compromising international research or constitutional protections.


VALUES

Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.

Neutral

Winston Jordan opposes defining gender-affirming support as child abuse, rejecting attempts to criminalize families and healthcare providers. He advocates for protecting youth rights and parental autonomy grounded in evidence-based medical consensus. Winston believes supporting children in living authentically safeguards mental health and well-being, and he opposes government overreach that restricts necessary care, compromises privacy, or stigmatizes LGBTQ+ youth.

Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.

Neutral

Winston Jordan strongly opposes codifying religious definitions of marriage into law, maintaining that civil marriage is a constitutional right guaranteed to all couples regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Grounded in the 14th Amendment's guarantees of equal protection and due process, he supports marriage equality and the separation of church and state, ensuring that individual religious beliefs do not restrict civil rights or legal protections for LGBTQ+ couples.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

Winston Jordan is agnostic, guiding his worldview through secular governance, reason, and the separation of church and state. His core values center on human dignity, integrity, and equal rights for all. By running a completely donor-free campaign, Winston prioritizes public interest over special interest money. He is committed to protecting civil liberties, expanding economic justice, and strengthening public institutions like education and healthcare to serve everyone equally.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Neutral

Winston Jordan strongly agrees that people should be able to vote without photo identification. He views strict voter ID laws as an undue burden that disproportionately disenfranchises low-income, elderly, student, and minority voters. Winston supports protecting voting access through secure, non-discriminatory verification methods like signature matching or affidavits, ensuring all eligible citizens can exercise their fundamental right to vote without financial or administrative barriers.


EQUALITY

Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.

Neutral

Winston Jordan strongly disagrees with blanket bans excluding transgender women from women's sports and public spaces. Grounded in civil rights, bodily autonomy, and equal protection under the 14th Amendment, he opposes government mandates that police identity or strip protections from vulnerable communities. Winston supports inclusive policies guided by sports governing bodies and human rights standards that protect dignity, safety, and privacy for all individuals without discrimination.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?

Winston Jordan supports public-interest grid investment in zero-emission clean energy and modernized grid infrastructure. He advocates for publicly accountable energy development to ensure long-term reliability while eliminating pollution. Winston op


ABOUT YOU

Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.

No.

Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.

No.

When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?

Choose not to answer

Winston Jordan is a Progressive candidate running a completely donor-free campaign centered on an 'FDR 2.0' vision. He advocates for universal public goods—including tuition-free pre-K through 4-year public college, housing, and healthcare as human rights. Grounded in equal protection, bodily autonomy, and civil liberties, Winston supports LGBTQ+ equality and voting rights, prioritizing human dignity, public service, and strict corporate accountability over money in politics.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.

Neutral

Winston Jordan strongly agrees that government must protect children from online sexual exploitation. He supports strict accountability for tech platforms and robust digital safety laws to prevent child harm. Winston emphasizes balancing online protection with civil liberties and data privacy, advocating for public-interest regulation that targets bad actors, combats exploitation, and holds major corporations accountable without enabling mass surveillance or infringing on free expression.


2ND AMENDMENT

What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?

Winston Jordan supports comprehensive, evidence-based gun safety reforms to reduce violence and protect communities. Grounded in public safety and corporate accountability, he advocates for universal background checks on all firearm sales, bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, universal red flag laws, and holding gun manufacturers accountable by repealing special liability protections. Winston emphasizes treating gun violence as a major public health crisis.

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