Incumbent
Judy Chu
Incumbent Democratic candidate for U.S. House in California
CA-28 primary: first place
$11.4K
JUN 6, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Live Odds
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Judy Chu is trading at 99% to win the CA-28 primary: first place on prediction markets.
Candidate Overview
Key details about the candidate’s background, party, office sought and current campaign.
Current roleU.S. Representative
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
Age73 years old (Jul 7, 1953)
GenderFemale
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LocationCalifornia
BackgroundU.S. Representative
EducationB.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1974)
Notable personal detailsJudy May Chu is a U.S. Representative from California, serving in the House since a July 2009 special election. Before Congress, she served on the Garvey School District Board of Education, the Monterey Park City Council (including three terms as mayor), the California State Assembly, and the California State Board of Equalization. She previously taught psychology at Los Angeles City College and East Los Angeles College.
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Political Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports measures to limit tax advantages for the very wealthy and corporations, preserve tax benefits for middle-class taxpayers (such as SALT), and expand taxpayer protections and services like free government tax filing. Opposes large tax cuts for high-income individuals and corporate tax giveaways and has sponsored legislation to close tax loopholes benefitting billionaires and corporate interests.
Healthcare
Supports Medicare for All and major public expansions of coverage, has co-sponsored Medicare for All legislation and is a founding member of the Medicare for All Caucus. Advocates protecting and expanding Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and lowering health care costs for constituents.
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Immigration & Border
Judy Chu supports expanded legal pathways and protections for immigrants, including pathways to citizenship for DACA/TPS recipients and relief for deported Southeast Asian adoptees. She advocates for humane border policies, oversight of ICE/CBP, and opposes funding a border wall absent comprehensive immigration reform. Chu has sponsored and reintroduced legislation to protect immigrant families and provide deportation relief for vulnerable communities.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Judy Chu supports broad abortion access and has repeatedly sponsored and reintroduced the Women’s Health Protection Act to establish a federal right to abortion; she describes abortion care as health care and reproductive rights as human rights. She has publicly advocated for codifying Roe-era protections into federal law and has taken part in abortion-rights actions and congressional efforts to protect access.
Climate & Energy
Supports aggressive federal action on climate, including a net-zero economy by midcentury, expanded investments and tax incentives for clean energy and electric vehicles, and has publicly endorsed the Green New Deal framework.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports reinstating an assault weapons ban, universal background checks for all gun sales, enhanced implementation of red flag laws, expanded background checks for buyers under 21, closing loopholes (including straw purchases and trafficking), and increased federal research and funding to prevent gun violence.
Latest News
Judy Chu is in the news over her role in congressional scrutiny of conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. She and other California lawmakers are seeking answers from DHS after detainees said they were retaliated against, including being placed in solitary confinement after speaking with members of Congress. Chu has also faced criticism after a committee exchange in which she said she did not know who the president was during World War I. Separately, a former local official she had previously honored resigned after admitting to acting as an illegal Chinese agent, and Chu removed that person from an endorsement page.
3 detainees who recently spoke to congressional visitors at Adelanto ICE facility reportedly sent to solitary confinement
3 congressional members demand investigation into alleged retaliation against Adelanto ICE detainees
Judy Chu doesn't know much about history
Chinese agent Eileen Wang was honored as 'Woman of the Year'
Campaign Fundraising
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