CA-24 primary: first place
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JUN 6, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleCouncil Member
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderMale
LocationCalifornia
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BackgroundU.S. Navy officer (retired)
EducationOld Dominion University (B.S., General Engineering Technology)
Notable personal detailsRobert “Bob” J. Smith is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 24th Congressional District in the 2026 election cycle. He is a retired U.S. Navy officer and has described his background as spanning naval engineering and defense systems work, including leading weapon-systems development and serving on multiple deployments. He has also worked as a defense systems/senior systems engineer and has lived in Carpinteria, California.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
The candidate supports reducing federal spending and regulations, cutting wasteful federal spending to lower costs, and using tax incentives to encourage housing construction and economic growth. Campaign materials emphasize lowering costs for families through spending restraint, regulatory rollbacks, and tax incentives rather than raising taxes or expanding entitlement programs.
Healthcare
Supports market-oriented reforms to lower costs including price transparency, expanded health savings accounts, association-style buying groups, targeted insurance mandate reforms, and stronger competition enforcement rather than large public expansions of coverage.
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Immigration & Border
The candidate supports “common-sense” immigration reform and has said it is wrong to penalize people brought to the U.S. as children; his campaign calls for bringing “sanity” to the immigration system while emphasizing law and order.
Climate & Energy
Supports a balanced grid that includes renewables layered on reliable baseload power, promotes development of small modular nuclear reactors, seeks to protect the coastline from industrial offshore wind projects, and favors reducing federal regulations that increase energy costs while securing funding for water storage and drought resilience.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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