In New Jersey, critical-care physician Dr. Tina Shah said the combination of Kennedy’s appointment and rising medical costs pushed her to run for Congress and try to flip a competitive seat currently held by GOP Rep. Tom Kean. She says she is seeing more patients skip procedures or drain savings to pay medical bills.

“Trump and RFK have zero years of medical education. I have 14,” Shah said. “What they’re doing is outrageous.”

“I’ve got one message for Tom Kean Jr.: too little, too late,” said Dr. Tina Shah. “Tom Kean Jr. has had multiple opportunities to lower healthcare costs for hardworking New Jerseyans and has refused every time. He voted for the bill that allowed these credits to expire in the first place, he voted for the largest cuts to Medicaid in American history, and he allowed New Jersey to come in dead last in federal rural healthcare funding. He can’t run from his record and NJ-07 voters will remember this in November.”

Shah, one of eight Democrats competing to take on Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) in New Jersey’s 7th congressional district, announced today that she has raised an enormous $1,017,000 since launching her campaign in July. Shah had raised $604,000 in the 3rd quarter – still the largest non-self-funded quarter of any Democrat in the race – and followed that up with a $413,000 4th quarter.

Congressman Ami Bera, a founding member of the Congressional Doctors Caucus, announced his endorsement of Dr. Tina Shah in her campaign for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District. 

“As a practicing doctor, I just can’t take it anymore,” Shah said. ” We need to make sure we hold RFK accountable.”

"For New Jersey’s Tina Shah, an ICU physician now running for the U.S. House of Representatives, the push was the Trump administration’s approach to health care: She told me that she now regularly encounters patients who can’t afford medication or who are being denied coverage for important procedures."

"Shah raised more from donors during the 3rd quarter than any other Democrat in the 7th district – or any other non-incumbent candidate anywhere in New Jersey – has raised in a single quarter so far this cycle."

Rep. Sharice Davids endorses Dr. Tina Shah for Congress

Physician who worked for Obama and Biden joined race to challenge Republican Tom Kean yesterday.

Dr. Shah’s strong fundraising haul demonstrates she has the support and resources needed to defeat Republican incumbent Tom Kean Jr.

Shah: “America is in critical condition. Enough is enough.”