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Establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that replaces most private health insurance.
Dembo supports a public option, which does not establish support for Medicare for All or single-payer.
fight for a public option in healthcare so everyone can afford care.
Create a public health-insurance option that competes with private plans.
Dembo explicitly supports a public health-insurance option.
fight for a public option in healthcare so everyone can afford care.
Raise the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.
Dembo calls for a living wage of at least $15 an hour.
Everyone should make a living wage of at least $15 an hour
Expand the Child Tax Credit beyond current law, in amount or refundability.
Dembo explicitly calls for expanding the Child Tax Credit.
expanding the child tax credit
Impose or expand rent regulation (rent caps, rent control or rent stabilization), at any level of government.
unclear: protect renters from price gouging, no cap (anti-gouging)
protect renters from the price gouging
Use federal policy to loosen local zoning and land-use rules so more housing gets built.
Enact legal protections for workers against replacement or displacement by AI, such as notice, bargaining rights or limits on replacement.
Dembo calls for notice before AI replaces workers.
corporations should have to give notice before replacing employees with AI.
US weapons to Israel: support or oppose
Supports Israel's right to defend itself but no blank checks or accountability-free support; oversight of aid.
support for the Israeli people doesn't mean blank checks for Netanyahu's regime with no accountability.
Increase federal funding for border security and enforcement (CBP, barriers, technology, personnel).
Dembo supports a secure border but does not call for increasing federal border-enforcement funding.
I will always be for immigration enforcement against violent criminals and a secure border
Limit new data-centre construction, including AI data centres, or make operators pay the full cost of the power, water and grid upgrades they use.
support: communities cannot be forced to host a data centre
Official campaign positionIf a community doesn't want a data center in their backyard, they should not be forced to have one, and state, local, and county leaders should be responsive to their community's desires.
None documented yet.
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Candidate statement
support for the Israeli people doesn't mean blank checks for Netanyahu's regime with no accountability.
Lexington Herald-Leader, "KY 6th District Dem candidate Zach Dembo on immigration, healthcare & more" (2026-05-13), written questionnaire · 2026-05-13 · Evidence grade A
Five questions, each answered only from the candidate’s own words, their campaign’s published position, a joint statement they issued, or a recorded House vote. Any condition or limit they attached is shown with the quote. “No public position found” means a reviewed search of their campaign site and official statements found nothing; it is not a position. This section is not scored against any group and does not feed the DSA Scare-O-Meter.
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