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Ballotpedia, Jerrad Christian

Believes corporations prioritize profit over citizens and spread "misinformation to cloud public judgment, shaping narratives to delay important action...often at a heavy cost to all of us."

Wants to expand high-speed internet access in rural areas and remove any loopholes or obstacles.

Believes using new technology based farming methods and crop diversity can improve crop yields and food security nationwide.

Wants "Ohio on the forefront..." of research and innovation hubs.

- Believes corporations prioritize profit over citizens and spread "misinformation to cloud public judgment, shaping narratives to delay important action...often at a heavy cost to all of us."
- Wants to expand high-speed internet access in rural areas and remove any loopholes or obstacles.
- Believes using new technology based farming methods and crop diversity can improve crop yields and food security nationwide.
- Wants "Ohio on the forefront..." of research and innovation hubs.

Economy

Supports Medicare and Social Security benefits.

- Supports abortion and IVF access.
- Supports universal healthcare.
- Supports Medicare and Social Security benefits.
- Opposes medication restrictions.

Healthcare

As of May 17, 2025, Jerrad Christian’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Safety

Wants to establish programs that provide military soldiers with mental health and career training support when they finish their military service.

- Wants to establish programs that provide military soldiers with mental health and career training support when they finish their military service.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Wants to address climate change, calling it "one of the most significant challenges of our time...".

Wants to invest in clean energy sources, including wind, solar, hydro-electric energy sources.

Supports efforts to conserve energy to reduce citizen costs.

Plans to push for using community-owned and operated micro-grids to help reduce energy bills and create local jobs.

Supports capping abandoned oil and gas wells, saying, "These repairs will create jobs and protect families."

- Wants to address climate change, calling it "one of the most significant challenges of our time...".
- Wants to invest in clean energy sources, including wind, solar, hydro-electric energy sources.
- Supports efforts to conserve energy to reduce citizen costs.
- Plans to push for using community-owned and operated micro-grids to help reduce energy bills and create local jobs.
- Supports capping abandoned oil and gas wells, saying, "These repairs will create jobs and protect families."

Energy & the Environment

Wants to reduce misinformation, saying such issues "undermine the very fabric of our communities, emphasizing the need for critical thinking and fact-checking...".

Said, "There needs to be a great deal of consideration in deciding what they are, but term limits should exist."

- Wants to reduce misinformation, saying such issues "undermine the very fabric of our communities, emphasizing the need for critical thinking and fact-checking...".
- Supports term limits.

Voting & Elections

Supports technology and innovation training with broadband access, education and STEM programs and small business and entrepreneurship.

Supports technology and innovation training with broadband access, education and STEM programs.

Wants to expand access to social services, including mental health assistance and foster care.

Wants to expand access to social services, including mental health assistance and funding for foster care.

- Supports technology and innovation training with broadband access, education and STEM programs.
- Wants to expand access to social services, including mental health assistance and funding for foster care.

Education

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Wants products to only be domestically produced.

Opposes government spending "we don’t have and borrowing what we can’t pay back."

Want to "Restore Trump’s middle-class tax cuts before they expire."

Plans to expand high-speed internet access.

- Wants products to only be domestically produced.
- Opposes government spending "we don’t have and borrowing what we can’t pay back."
- Want to "Restore Trump’s middle-class tax cuts before they expire."
- Opposes government regulations.
- Plans to prevent tax increases.
- Plans to expand high-speed internet access.

Wants develop innovations that aim to provide easier state healthcare access for those in rural areas.

Wants to "Stop the Radical Left’s drug pricing schemes that raise healthcare costs and stifle American innovation."

Supports using digital healthcare and technology for doctor's appointments.

Wants to protect seniors and those with pre-existing conditions.

Supports "patient choice and flexibility..." to improve healthcare affordability.

- Wants develop innovations that aim to provide easier state healthcare access for those in rural areas.
- Wants to "Stop the Radical Left’s drug pricing schemes that raise healthcare costs and stifle American innovation."
- Supports using digital healthcare and technology for doctor's appointments.
- Wants to protect seniors and those with pre-existing conditions.
- Supports "patient choice and flexibility..." to improve healthcare affordability.

Wants to hire more police officers and ensure police departments are provided necessary resources.

- Opposes gun control.
- Wants to hire more police officers and ensure police departments are provided necessary resources.

Wants to finish the southern border wall and enhance technology for detecting undocumented border crossings.

Wants to hire more border patrol officers and fewer IRS agents.

Wants to end sanctuary cities, driver’s licenses, discounted tuition,  and welfare payments for undocumented immigrants.

Wants to remove the social media platform TikTok, saying it is "China’s biggest propaganda tool in America...".

Opposes Chinese-made goods, saying he "caught China red-handed, attempting to undermine the American Steel industry."

Wants to "Streamline the bureaucracy..." and allow veterans to more easily receive benefits.

- Opposes undocumented immigration.
- Wants to finish the southern border wall and enhance technology for detecting undocumented border crossings.
- Wants to hire more border patrol officers and fewer IRS agents.
- Wants to end sanctuary cities, driver’s licenses, discounted tuition,  and welfare payments for undocumented immigrants.
- Wants to remove the social media platform TikTok, saying it is "China’s biggest propaganda tool in America...".
- Opposes Chinese-made goods, saying he "caught China red-handed, attempting to undermine the American Steel industry."
- Wants to "Streamline the bureaucracy..." and allow veterans to more easily receive benefits.

Wants only domestic American energy sources.

Wants to "Follow the science. Acknowledge natural gas for its leading role in reducing emissions."

Wants to "Stop the radical green agenda, which is distorting facts and forcing pain on consumers.

- Wants only domestic American energy sources.
- Wants to "Follow the science. Acknowledge natural gas for its leading role in reducing emissions."
- Wants to "Stop the radical green agenda, which is distorting facts and forcing pain on consumers.

Said, "I will not challenge the certification of the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States."

- Said, "I will not challenge the certification of the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States."

Wants to improve workforce preparation for the next-generation.

- Wants to improve workforce preparation for the next-generation.
- Supports career training programs.

Troy Balderson

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- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain policy areas, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority Leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms. To hold this office, a candidate must be a legal resident of Ohio, and have been a citizen of the United States for 7 years. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.

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