Democratic Congresswoman and wealthy heiress Sara Jacobs faces allegations of leveraging her family’s substantial wealth to support her boyfriend’s unsuccessful political endeavors.
At 37, Jacobs, who humorously remarked that “Congress is basically high school,” is the granddaughter of Irwin M. Jacobs, the founder of the semiconductor giant Qualcomm.
According to campaign finance records obtained by the New York Post, the congresswoman and her family have invested over $200,000 into three unsuccessful campaigns of her reported boyfriend, Ammar Campa-Najjar, since they began dating in 2019.
Campa-Najjar, aged 37 and a Naval Reserve Officer, has twice vied for a Congressional seat and once for the role of mayor in Chula Vista, California, but fell short each time.
Throughout his campaigns, he has benefitted from the financial backing of Jacobs’ family, with Irwin Jacobs reportedly possessing a net worth of $1.2 billion.
As Campa-Najjar mounts another campaign, this time for California’s 48th district in eastern San Diego, the family’s financial support continues.
Jacobs is co-hosting a campaign lunch with her grandfather for Campa-Najjar, with the top dollar for tickets $7,000, the Post reported.
As a family, they’ve contributed more than $73,000 to Campa-Najjar’s campaign since this past August, per the outlet.
Democrat Congresswoman and billionaire heiress Sara Jacobs (pictured right) has been accused of using her family’s vast fortune to fund her boyfriend Amma Campa-Najjar (pictured right) doomed political campaigns
Jacobs, 37, who once joked that ‘Congress is basically high school,’ is the granddaughter of the founder of semiconductor company Qualcomm, Irwin Mark Jacobs (pictured above)
They gave even more in 2023 when he ran for mayor, propping up his failed campaign for the Chula Vista post to the tune of $118,000, while he allegedly lived with Jacobs in San Diego.
However, the biggest complaints with Campa-Najjar’s campaigns – and Jacobs’ support – are that he has flip flopped on several issues with each run.
Campa-Najjar – the grandson of a man who founded the Palestinian nationalist group Fatah – ran during the 2018 Democrat ‘blue wave’ as an acolyte of socialist Bernie Sanders.
However, when he ran in 2020, he promised to ‘investigate Trump, Biden [and] Hillary’ while opposing abortion and holding a campaign event with a man who eventually turned up at the January 6 riot.
He’s apparently returned to being a standard issue liberal again, having said at a campaign event in September that he supports abortion, calling accusations otherwise ‘misinformation.’
‘I believe every woman has a right to choose what to do with her own body. Sara would not be with me if that were not true,’ he said, referencing Jacobs.
‘The only cool thing about being a flip-flopper is wearing the shoes. That’s the only thing he has going for him,’ Democrat consultant Mike Trujillo told the Post.
Campa-Najjar also tried to use photos of him with a woman and a pair of young children to suggest he was married with a family, with the San Diego Union-Tribune calling him a ‘brazenly cynical ideological chameleon.’
Campa-Najjar has faced allegations of flip-flopping on the issues and using his girlfriend’s family wealth to fund his campaigns
Sara Jacobs attends the 2024 CARE International Women’s Day Dinner at National Museum of the American Indian
Trujillo alleged that Jacobs is ‘whipping’ endorsements from the California Democrat elite.
‘It would be unfortunate if we were to not take back the House because someone was trying to impress her boyfriend,’ he quipped.
Campa-Najjar has also allegedly failed to pay campaign staffer Jaimey Sexton $6,000 dating back to his 2022 Congressional run.
‘If you can’t pay his bills, how can you be be responsible for our money as a congressman?’ Sexton asked, per the Post.
‘Sara can stop by the ATM, take out $6,000 and pay me.’
A group of southern California Democrats wrote him a letter begging him not to run again in 2026.
‘Ammar’s repeated defeats have compounded a troubling pattern: a lack of clear principles Democrats can unite behind and a tendency to tell different groups whatever they want to hear,’ they wrote.
A spokesperson for Jacobs denied that she had demanded her Democrat colleagues endorse Campa-Najjar.
‘She hasn’t asked her colleagues for endorsements — in fact, she’s told her colleagues explicitly not to endorse because of her, so there’s no ambiguity, pressure, or sense of obligation,’ Lauren McIlvaine said.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Campa-Najjar for further comment.
Campa-Najjar is fighting for the seat of retiring incumbent Republican Darrell Issa in a district that has been helped tilt toward the Democrats from Gavin Newsom’s redistricting bill.
The Democrat opponent is San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, while the Republican favorite is Jim Desmond. The primary is set for June 2.
