NJ-04 — U.S. House
How competitive is this race?
Three independent forecasters rate every race from Safe to Toss-up. This is their judgment, not ours, and not a poll. Where they disagree, that disagreement is the information.
Rated Safe for the party that holds the seat by all three forecasters. None of them lists it as competitive.
SMITH, CHRISTOPHER H REP
Raised
$592,016as filed through Jun 30, 2026
From individuals
—
From PACs
$214,058
Self-funded
—
Cash on hand
$488,316
In office · 119th Congress
Roll-call votes
0.9% missed
Missed 6 of 655 roll-call votes while a member, through Sep 3, 2026.
voteview record ↗Bills this Congress
57 introduced
Cosponsored 215 others. Introducing is authorship; cosponsoring is signing on.
congress.gov ↗Bills introduced (44) · resolutions (13)
- HR 10176No PRC Seafood in Congress Act
- HR 9893Stop Support for UNRWA Act of 2026
- HR 9531Preventing Stomach Cancer in Our Nation’s Heroes Act
- HR 9202Walter Patterson Justice and Extradition Act
- HR 9085Tibet Atrocities Determination Act
- HR 8354Securing Local Communities Input in Broadband Development Act
- HR 7967Heidi’s Law
- HR 7807Honduras Expropriation Accountability Act
- HR 7482LymeX Authorization Act
- HR 7457Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026
- HR 7055Restoring Sovereignty and Human Rights in Nicaragua Act of 2026
- HR 6930Protecting Military Readiness from Offshore Wind Industrialization Interference Act
- HR 6765Safe Passages Act of 2025
- HR 6042LANDED Act
- HR 5491Nelson Wells Jr. and Dawn Michelle Hunt Unjustly Detained in Communist China Act
- HR 5303FREEDOM for Gao Zhisheng and All Political Prisoners Act
- HR 5250To provide for the foreign assistance authority of the Department of State, and for other purposes.
- HR 5160Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2025
- HR 4829Transnational Repression Policy Act
- HR 4830Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025
- HR 4732Orphanage Trafficking Prevention and Protection Act
- HR 4348To reauthorize the Kay Hagan Tick Act, and for other purposes.
- HR 4113Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- HR 3737Tiananmen Massacre Transparency and Accountability Act
- HJRES 98Life Month Resolution
- HR 3225Belarus Democracy, Human Rights, and Sovereignty Act of 2025
- HR 3201Belarus Democracy, Human Rights, and Sovereignty Act of 2025
- HR 3122Vietnam Human Rights Act
- HR 2961Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- HR 2796Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- HR 2661Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act
- HR 2521American Family FAFSA Opportunity Act of 2025
- HR 2522To designate the area between the intersections of 18th Street Northwest and Church Street Northwest, and 18th Street Northwest and P Street Northwest, in the District of Columbia as "Jimmy Lai Way", and for other purposes.
- HJRES 82Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Insurance Regulation Amendment Act of 2024.
- HR 2310COBALT Supply Chain Act
- HR 2170To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes.
- HR 2226Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act of 2025
- HR 2097Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act
- HR 2161Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act of 2025
- HR 1744United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2026
- HR 1503Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
- HR 1504China Trade Relations Act of 2025
- HR 1144Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- HR 7No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025
Resolutions — commemorations and expressions of support, not law
- HRES 1400Condemning the People's Republic of China's Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress and the Chinese Communist Party's campaign of forced assimilation against ethnic and religious minorities.
- HRES 1382Celebrating the historic anniversary of the June 24, 2022, decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
- HRES 1279Supporting the designation of the month of May as "Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Awareness Month".
- HRES 1259Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should prioritize securing the release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, and Jimmy Lai detained by the People’s Republic of China during future engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
- HRES 1188Expressing support for the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers.
- HRES 860Commending President Trump for Redesignating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern due to Nigeria's engagement in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, and for other purposes.
- HRES 755Expressing support for the goals and ideas of "National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month" and "World Hydrocephalus Day".
- HRES 689Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to the Chinese Communist Party's "stolen valor" historical revisionism with regards to Allied Victory in Asia, commemorating the contributions made by the Republic of China to Allied Victory, and acknowledging the postwar contributions of the Government of Japan to peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
- HRES 586Recognizing and applauding President Trump for brokering a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supporting diplomatic and economic efforts to achieve lasting peace in the region.
- HRES 559Recognizing the urgent need for peace, stability, and reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supporting diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian efforts to achieve lasting peace in the region.
- HRES 479Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on the urgent need to appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan to address the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis and to advance United States national security interests.
- HCONRES 27Expressing support for the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers.
- HRES 220Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, and for other purposes.
Incumbent
FEC record ↗PEACE, RACHEL DEM
Raised
$34,352as filed through Jun 30, 2026
From individuals
—
From PACs
$0
Self-funded
—
Cash on hand
$5,363
Challenger
FEC record ↗BLAKE, JOHN DAVID DEM
Raised
$5,421as filed through Mar 31, 2026
From individuals
—
From PACs
$5,000
Self-funded
—
Cash on hand
$6,646
Challenger
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