CA-45 primary: first place
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JUN 6, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleFormer Council Member
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
LocationCalifornia
BackgroundRetired law enforcement officer
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EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (studied anthropology with an emphasis in biology)
Notable personal detailsChuong V. Vo is an American politician and retired law enforcement officer. He served on the Cerritos, California City Council from 2020 to 2025, including as mayor from 2022 to 2023 and as mayor pro tem in multiple years. He served with the Torrance Police Department for approximately 28 years beginning in 1999. He ran as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in California’s 45th Congressional District in 2026.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
The candidate emphasizes fiscal responsibility and lowering costs by cutting wasteful spending, auditing fraud and duplication, and applying municipal-style budget discipline rather than raising taxes. Platform language also commits to protecting Social Security and Medicare while targeting inefficiencies to preserve solvency. Prior municipal roles list experience on budget/finance committees and implementation of balanced budgets at the city level.
Healthcare
The campaign emphasizes public-safety-linked health priorities such as expanding mental-health and addiction treatment beds and addressing fentanyl trafficking, and mentions lowering costs and affordability more broadly. The site does not state clear positions on major health-system reforms like the Affordable Care Act, a public option, Medicare for All, or privatization. Overall, health positions focus on treatment access for addiction/mental health and affordability without a comprehensive stance on federal health-system policy.
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Immigration & Border
Supports secure borders and stronger enforcement capacity while calling for faster asylum and visa processing and modernization of legal immigration to reduce delays. Emphasizes providing agents with training and resources, opposing racial profiling, and finishing border technology and infrastructure.
News
Chuong Vo has advanced to the general election in California’s 45th District after finishing second in the primary. He will face incumbent Democrat Derek Tran in November. The result puts Vo in a key congressional matchup under California’s top-two primary system.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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