California Congressman Dave Min (CA-47) announced his endorsement of Dr. Tina Shah on Dec. 11 in her campaign for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District. In July 2025, practicing physician Dr. Tina Shah stepped up to run for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District because it was time she said, to fix the broken healthcare system.
The New Jersey native added, “I’m running for Congress because America is in critical condition and enough is enough. As a physician, I took an oath to first do no harm, but when I go to work in the Intensive Care Unit, I’m up against a system that is designed to make patients broke and sicker, prioritize insurance companies’ profits above all else, and burn out a workforce trying to save lives.”
Shah grew up in New Jersey and is a practicing physician triple board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. She is challenging Republican incumbent Tom Kean Jr., who had cast the deciding vote in Congress for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history.
Shah said that career politicians like Tom Kean Jr had done nothing to lower healthcare costs or expand access to care. “Instead, he’s dodging his constituents while casting the deciding vote to gut Medicaid and attacking access to essential care, including abortion, in New Jersey.
The Center for Politics rates NJ-07 as one of the only “toss-up” congressional races in the country. and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has included Tom Kean Jr. in their 2026 “Districts in Play” list.
“I am excited to endorse Dr. Tina Shah for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th District,” said Congressman Dave Min. “Tina’s experience taking care of patients on the frontlines in the ICU and working to deliver affordable and accessible healthcare will serve New Jersey and our whole country well. Like me, she is the child of Asian immigrants, and so she knows firsthand the importance of standing up for our core values and building the economic opportunity that defines the American Dream. She is exactly the kind of fighter we need in Congress right now.”
Shah said she was grateful for Min’s support. “He’s proven that he knows how to win tough races and deliver for his community. I’m excited to flip this seat with his support and join in the work to ensure the American Dream is accessible to all.”
She expressed concern that RFK Jr. and the Trump administration, “who, with no medical training, are actively gutting lifesaving medical research and putting vaccine deniers in charge of our vaccine system. If we keep going down this road, there’s only one outcome: people will get hurt. What we do next is critical. I’m running for Congress to fix what is fundamentally broken and stand up for my patients, my neighbors, my community, and New Jersey.”