- Party: Democrat
Candidate's Website: https://www.campacampaign.com/
Campa-Najjar was born in La Mesa, California, raised and lives in Chula Vista, California.[3][4] His father, Yasser Najjar, is Palestinian, and his mother, Abigail Campa, is Mexican American.
He attended community college at Southwestern College, and earned a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Psychology from San Diego State University.[10][11]
Campa-Najjar worked as a deputy regional field director for the Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign.[14] During the Obama Administration, Campa-Najjar was a White House intern and briefly worked in the Labor Department‘s Office of Public Affairs for the Employment and Training Administration. As a White House intern, his clerical responsibilities included reading and helping select letters that President Obama would read each day.[15]
Campa-Najjar has twice been a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. He lost in the 2018 election against incumbent Duncan D. Hunter.[2] Campa-Najjar lost again in a 2020 campaign to represent California’s 50th congressional district, which encompasses the northeastern segments of San Diego County, and a small section of Riverside County.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammar_Campa-Najjar
Further Information: https://ballotpedia.org/Ammar_Campa-Najjar
