Lina Khan
Democratic candidate for U.S. House
Lina Khan
Democratic candidate for U.S. House
NY-12 Democratic nominee?
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JUN 24, 2026Primary Election
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$1.0MJUN 24, 2026Candidate Overview
Key details about the candidate’s background, party, office sought and current campaign.
Current roleLegal scholar
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
Age37 years old (Mar 3, 1989)
GenderFemale
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BackgroundLegal scholar
EducationWilliams College (BA)
Notable personal detailsLina Maliha Khan is a legal scholar known for her work on antitrust and competition policy. She served on the Federal Trade Commission beginning in 2021 and was Chair of the FTC from 2021 to 2025. Khan has taught at Columbia Law School, where she has served as an associate professor of law.
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Political Positions
Healthcare
Lina Khan’s public statements and official work focus on using antitrust and consumer-protection tools to increase competition in health care markets, limit harmful private equity consolidation, challenge patent strategies that keep drug prices high, and address noncompete clauses that restrict health‑care workers. She has not articulated a clear position in favor of single‑payer/Medicare for All or explicit support for a specific major health‑care entitlement expansion in the sources reviewed. Her record centers on market‑structure and competition remedies to lower costs and protect access.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
As FTC Chair Lina Khan has taken regulatory actions to protect people seeking reproductive health care from commercial surveillance and has directed the agency to ban sale of sensitive location data that could identify visits to reproductive health clinics, she supports measures that protect access to reproductive care by limiting privacy harms. Her public actions focus on safeguarding data and privacy for those seeking abortion and other reproductive services rather than articulating specific legislative proposals to codify Roe v. Wade.
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Climate & Energy
Lina Khan has used her role as FTC Chair to update federal guidance and oversight related to environmental claims and to scrutinize consolidation in the oil and gas sector. Her actions include launching a formal review of the FTC’s Green Guides for environmental marketing claims and overseeing inquiries into large oil-and-gas mergers. These steps indicate support for regulatory oversight of climate-related corporate practices and consumer-facing environmental claims while addressing competition issues in energy markets.
Latest News
Lina Khan is in the news because AI policy became a major issue in New York’s 12th District Democratic primary, where outside groups spent heavily to influence the race. Micah Lasher defeated Alex Bores, but the result did not deliver a clear win for either side of the AI regulation debate, since Lasher also backed a strict AI agenda. The broader coverage says AI-linked super PACs have poured tens of millions of dollars into select 2026 congressional races to shape policy debates.
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