United States Representative and Democratic candidate for U.S. House in California's 51st district.
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Trump told a Nebraska rally "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." California officials say he called attacks on the cities a small price for the Iran war; the White House says he meant a nuclear Iran's threat.
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Networked automated license-plate cameras can assemble searchable records of vehicle movements. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to ban the systems, keep them with limits, or defend them as investigative tools. This tracker separates outright bans from narrower restrictions.
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An issue tracker recording where members of Congress and 2026 midterm candidates stand on the unauthorized Iran war, based on their votes on war-powers resolutions, campaign statements, and public remarks.
Role at the time: U.S. representative from California's 51st District
Response to this claim
Trump accepts attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego as a cost of the Iran war: "if it means attacks on two major American cities in the process, he is not troubled by the cost."
“not acceptable collateral damage in Trump’s stupid war.”
The reference point is whether Trump's remark meant Iranian attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego would be an acceptable price for the war, as critics read it, rather than that the war prevents a nuclear Iran from being able to attack them, as the White House says. Jacobs answers the remark by rejecting the idea that her constituents are acceptable collateral damage, which treats the remark as accepting harm to San Diego and criticizes it. The closest competing label is Challenged the characterization, but she objects to what she takes Trump to have said rather than to how others described it. Evidence: Jacobs's own post on X.
Role at the time: U.S. Representative, California 51th district
Statement summary
Sara Jacobs voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 93, the House resolution directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
“On Agreeing to the Resolution: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”
A yea vote supported directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran, opposing continued U.S. involvement in the war without congressional authorization.
Role at the time: U.S. representative for California's 51st Congressional District, speaking in a video published by her office.
Statement summary
In an August 14 video, Sara Jacobs criticized abortion surveillance and identified Flock cameras as systems that make it easier to track women seeking abortions and people helping them across state lines. She urged Congress to pass her Safer Health Act and My Body, My Data Act.
“The abortion surveillance state is already in place and causing serious harm.”
Jacobs expressly criticizes surveillance of abortion-related travel and names Flock cameras in that discussion. She supports reproductive-data privacy legislation but specifies no separate remedy for license-plate camera networks.
Statement dates: September 15, 2026 to October 5, 2026
Statement dates: September 15, 2026 to October 5, 2026
Statement dates: August 14, 2026
Statement dates: August 14, 2026
Statement dates: August 14, 2026
Statement dates: September 15, 2026 to October 5, 2026
