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John Giuffre (also known as Raghu) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Hawaii. He lost in the Nonpartisan primary on August 10, 2024.

Giuffre completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

John Giuffre was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. He earned an associate degree from Bhaktivedanta Gurukula in 1984. His career experience includes being an author of economic books, a landlord, and a real estate agent. He has been affiliated with Raghu-nomics.^[1]^[2]

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono defeated Bob McDermott, Shelby Billionaire, and Emma Pohlman in the general election for U.S. Senate Hawaii on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Mazie K. Hirono (D)	64.6	324,194
	Bob McDermott (R)	31.9	160,075
	Shelby Billionaire (We the People)	1.8	9,224
	Emma Pohlman (G)	1.6	8,270

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 501,763
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Incumbent Mazie K. Hirono defeated Ron Curtis and Clyde McClain Lewman in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Mazie K. Hirono	90.5	176,131
	Ron Curtis	7.3	14,271
	Clyde McClain Lewman	2.2	4,287

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 194,689
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Bob McDermott	51.9	27,961
	Adriel Lam	16.5	8,913
	Melba Amaral	14.2	7,627
	Paul Dolan	7.4	4,006
	Arturo Reyes	6.2	3,319
	Emmanuel Tipon	3.8	2,075

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 53,901
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

No candidate advanced from the primary.

		Candidate	%	Votes
		John Giuffre	100.0	966

Vote totals may be incomplete for this race.
	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 966
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Aloha Aina Party primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Dan Decker (Aloha Aina Party)

Green primary election

Green primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Emma Pohlman advanced from the Green primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Emma Pohlman	100.0	1,342

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,342
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jennifer Booker (G)

Libertarian primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Aaron Toman (L)

We the People primary election

We the People primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Shelby Billionaire advanced from the We the People primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii on August 10, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Shelby Billionaire	100.0	977

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 977
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2020

Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 8 Republican primary)

Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 8 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kaiali'i Kahele (D)	63.0	171,517
	Joseph Akana (R)	30.9	84,027
	Michelle Rose Tippens (L)	2.5	6,785
	Jonathan Hoomanawanui (Aloha Aina Party)	2.4	6,453
	Ron Burrus (Nonpartisan)	1.0	2,659
	John Giuffre (American Shopping Party)	0.2	661

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 272,102
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Kaiali'i Kahele defeated Brian Evans, Brenda Lee, and Noelle Famera in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 8, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kaiali'i Kahele	76.5	100,841
	Brian Evans	9.4	12,337
	Brenda Lee	8.1	10,694
	Noelle Famera	6.1	7,992

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 131,864
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

David Cornejo (D)
Ryan Meza (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 8, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Joseph Akana	44.1	15,107
	Elise Hatsuko Kaneshiro	15.4	5,294
	David Hamman	10.0	3,430
	Robert Nagamine	8.4	2,887
	Nicholas Love	7.6	2,616
	Steven Bond	6.5	2,218
	Felipe San Nicolas	4.3	1,465
	Karla Gottschalk	2.8	953
	Raymond Quel	0.9	305

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 34,275
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Ron Burrus defeated Byron McCorriston in the primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 8, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Ron Burrus	59.2	1,308
	Byron McCorriston	40.8	901

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,209
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Aloha Aina Party primary election

Aloha Aina Party primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Jonathan Hoomanawanui advanced from the Aloha Aina Party primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 8, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jonathan Hoomanawanui	100.0	3,423

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,423
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American Shopping Party primary election

American Shopping Party primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

John Giuffre advanced from the American Shopping Party primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 8, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		John Giuffre	100.0	134

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 134
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Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Michelle Rose Tippens advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2 on August 8, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Michelle Rose Tippens	100.0	1,014

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,014
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2016

See also: United States Senate election in Hawaii, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated Hawaii's U.S. Senate race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Brian Schatz (D) defeated John Carroll (R), Michael Kokoski (L), Joy Allison (Constitution Party), and John Giuffre (American Shopping Party) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Schatz defeated Makani Christensen, Tutz Honeychurch, Arturo Reyes, and Miles Shiratori in the Democratic primary, while Carroll defeated Karla Gottschalk, Eddie Pirkowski, and John Roco to win the Republican nomination. The primary elections took place on August 13, 2016.^[3]^[4]

**U.S. Senate, Hawaii General Election, 2016**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Brian Schatz Incumbent	73.6%	306,604
	Republican	John Carroll	22.2%	92,653
	Constitution	Joy Allison	2.2%	9,103
	Libertarian	Michael Kokoski	1.6%	6,809
	American Shopping	John Giuffre	0.3%	1,393
Total Votes				416,562
Source: Hawaii Secretary of State

**U.S. Senate, Hawaii Democratic Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Brian Schatz Incumbent	86.2%	162,905
Makani Christensen	6.3%	11,899
Miles Shiratori	4.6%	8,620
Arturo Reyes	2%	3,820
Tutz Honeychurch	1%	1,815
Total Votes		189,059
Source: Hawaii Secretary of State

**U.S. Senate, Hawaii Republican Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
John Carroll	74.6%	26,749
John Roco	11%	3,956
Karla Gottschalk	8.5%	3,045
Eddie Pirkowski	5.9%	2,115
Total Votes		35,865
Source: Hawaii Secretary of State

2014

See also: United States Senate elections in Hawaii, 2014

Giuffre ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent Hawaii.^[5] Giuffre failed to appear on the official list of candidates.^[6]

**U.S. Senate, Hawaii No Party Primary, 2014**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Joy Allison	67.8%	388
Art Reyes	32.2%	184
Total Votes		572
Source: Hawaii Office of Elections

2012

See also: Hawaii's 1st Congressional District elections, 2012

Giuffre ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Hawaii's 1st District. Giuffre sought the nomination on the Republican ticket.^[7] Giuffre ran against Charles Amsterdam and Charles Djou in the Republican primary. Giuffre was defeated by Charles Djou in the Republican primary on August 11, 2012.^[8]

**U.S. House, Hawaii District 1 Republican Primary, 2012**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Charles Djou	95.7%	25,984
Charles Amsterdam	2.9%	799
John Giuffre	1.4%	376
Total Votes		27,159

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

John Giuffre completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Giuffre's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Third generation Italian American, born in LA, boyhood to youth schooling in India to study the Veda's - after mom became a Buddhist Hindu. Preacher til 25, biz til 30, and so began my writings on social economic policy now called Raghu-nomics.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Three Main Programs by Raghu-nomics: 1) RADHA Mortgage: Cut Mortgage 50% - Cuts mortgage costs 50% & monthly payments by as much as 70% 2) Leverage Debt Reduction: Cut US Deficits 50% -Cuts US Federal Debt of $35 trillion in half. - 50% of Federal debt is in real estate securities. - RADHA converts real estate into triple AAA assets and so, US treasury can retire $15 trillion back to market 3) Lifestyle Insurance: Half the Costs for Double the Service - 50% of all medical costs is lifestyle related. Cover of our own lifestyle cost = cut insurance premiums 50%. - Lifestyle has retail products for its own revenue source. - Ex: Obesity cost $2 trillion a decade. That's 10 cents once evenly divided between all junk food
Raghu-nomics offers working models made of user-friendly biz formula's and straight forward numbers that are easy to confirm or contest. Neutral platform to build new discourse, free of conflict politics.
Raghu-nomics offers new perspectives that find new possibilities and so allow for a new conversation around solutions that suddenly look solvable once resized around new prospects.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Raghu-nomics is 26 books with about 100 + policy proposals. Each offering solutions like those of those mentioned above. The RADHA Mortgage is the most vetted and ready to scale nationally.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Raghu-nomics is done as my service to my Guru-Maharaj, Srila Prabhupada, to offer Brahminical counsel to the world in its darkest hour and offer direction to the leaders of the world.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

Raghu-noimcs is based upon a couple core principles. the first is ROOPA: Responsible for One's Own Products and Actions. When we talk of good and bad, we are actually talking about long term liabilities or economic returns. We follow those to measure how bad or good something is. We then ask that those causing the liabilities cover it's cost and those of good, share in the long term rewards of their works. Raghu-nomics is an economics application of the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible of India.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

I work from a numbers based approached to social political and economic policies. This numbers based response is taken from my training in philosophy and the Vedic paradigm which is to say its a value bases system. I'm therefore allowed to see things quite differently then any of the others in today's power circles and then confirm their numeric equation. I provide the contrast and added variables missing from today's discourse and policy development.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

26 books as the culmination of nearly 50 years of work and 1uarter million in out of pocket costs and 1 million in time. Raghu-nomics is next generation social economic policy unrestrained by the straight jacket of today's outdated ideology of Liberal vs Conservative. They have little barring to fix the program as demonstrated by the dramatic impact possible with Raghu-nomics.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

My first priority as as senator for Hawaii is to bring back the $8 to $25 billion to build out the states necessary infrastructure and farming.

What legacy would you like to leave?

Raghu-nomics is upon the legacy of Prabhupada's vision and fulfillment to offer a house in which the whole world can live peacefully.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Assignation of India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandi, 1984. I was taking a train from Delhi to Varnasi when word came and that it was first suggested the CIA behind it. I was suddenly a Canadian for the next 3 months. Slaughter of Sikhs throughout the country - worst hit was Varanasi, where I was going and stayed for 2 months. Had the plot been confirmed as an American, I would have been dragged off the train, or off the street and hacked to death. I was 19. Same again for the Hindu Muslim riots when they attacked our temple and cut up Western devotees - our teachers, with machete's.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Preach - 9 years - 16 to 25 which included Congregational program development and director.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Bhagavad Gita As It is - it's the paradigm from which Raghu-nomics is built upon

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Iran Man's Dad seems to best represent my role today.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Radhika Das, Hare Krsna, Kensington Hall, London

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Extreme financial hardship while I carry this service of Raghu-nomics forward. Minimal resources will allow these programs to be fully developed and launched at long last.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Most would think economic collapse and global stature, global warming and nuclear war with Russia. In my case, we have 'simple solutions' to each of these so find them more as opportunities vs challenges.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Generally favored it, but want more info before I make a finale commitment. I'm tending more to age limits of say 70 or 75.

What qualities does the U.S. Senate possess that makes it unique as an institution?

1) The larger role you can play in developing policy and 2) the better placement to bring larger share of fed dollars back to the state.
3) Better access to resources for developing policy and securing billions in money from the feds for the state.

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for senators to have previous experience in government or politics?

Most politicians are generally committed to gov't and policy based upon the pay to do it. I have dedicated almost 50 years developing public policy and economic programs.

What do you think of the filibuster?

Maybe. I need more info. I have gone back and forth on it.

Is there a particular senator, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Kennedy.

Tell us your favorite joke.

How many Buddhist does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. There is no light bulb. You are the light.

How would you evaluate a judicial nominee?

Have not looked into yet.

What kind of relationships would you build with other senators?

I have already worked members over a couple decades as I shopped Raghu-nomics to them over hundreds of trips to DC. I was able to interest them as an 'idea' guy. Should do well to close them on policy programs once getting to work as peer.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Better then compromise is program upgrades that make most political fights irrelevant.

How should the U.S. Senate use its investigative powers?

As a secondary priority to developing breakthrough policy programs.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Have not yet launched my campaign. Should know in the next 30 days.

What criteria would you apply when deciding whether to confirm presidential appointees to their Cabinet?

Experience, transparency and political agenda

What committees interest you?

My strengths would best interface with Ag, Financial Services, Foreign Operations, Transportation & Housing

What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?

Raghu-nomics focus is to find what services can be better provided by the market place and how to facilitate as the most effective response to reducing gov't corruption and ineptitude.

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2020

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John Giuffre campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. Senate Hawaii	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2020	U.S. House Hawaii District 2	Lost general	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
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↑ Raghu-nomics, "About," accessed July 25, 2025
↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 15, 2024
↑ Hawaii Secretary of State, "2016 Candidates," accessed June 8, 2016
↑ Politico, "Hawaii Senate Races Results," August 13, 2016
↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named candidatelist
↑ Hawaii.gov, "Candidate report," accessed August 10, 2014
↑ Hawaii Elections, "Primary Candidate Report, "June 4, 2012 (dead link)
↑ AP Results, "Hawaii U.S. House Primary Election Results" accessed August 12, 2012

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Hawaii's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Mazie Hirono (D)

Brian Schatz (D)

Representatives

District 1

Ed Case (D)

District 2

Jill Tokuda (D)

Democratic Party (4)

[orgbio-1] Raghu-nomics, "About," accessed July 25, 2025

[2] Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 15, 2024

[list16-3] Hawaii Secretary of State, "2016 Candidates," accessed June 8, 2016

[primaryresults16-4] Politico, "Hawaii Senate Races Results," August 13, 2016

[candidatelist-5] Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named candidatelist

[candreport-6] Hawaii.gov, "Candidate report," accessed August 10, 2014

[list-7] Hawaii Elections, "Primary Candidate Report, "June 4, 2012 (dead link)

[results-8] AP Results, "Hawaii U.S. House Primary Election Results" accessed August 12, 2012

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John Giuffre

Biography

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Aloha Aina Party primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Green primary election

Green primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

We the People primary election

We the People primary for U.S. Senate Hawaii

Endorsements

2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Aloha Aina Party primary election

Aloha Aina Party primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

American Shopping Party primary election

American Shopping Party primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for U.S. House Hawaii District 2

2016

2014

2012

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

2020

Candidate Conversations

Campaign finance summary

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