- See Pat Harrigan's sponsored bills →Pat HarriganRepublicanIncumbent✓ Verified$1.3M raised
- Ashley BellDemocratic✓ Verified$139K raised
- Steven FeldmanLibertarian✓ Verified$43K raised
Where they stand
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| Issue | Pat HarriganRepublican | Ashley BellDemocratic | Steven FeldmanLibertarian |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Harrigan supports a strong economy achieved by cutting senseless spending and government overreach, allowing Americans to keep and control their hard-earned money. Harrigan supports cutting red tape, backing small businesses, and fostering innovation to create good-paying jobs and economic opportunities for hardworking North Carolinians. Harrigan votes yea on acts supporting technology use, capital access, privacy protection, terrorism risk insurance, and financial exploitation prevention, but nay on the KIDS Act. | Bell supports affordability and economic relief, fully funding public schools, paying teachers fairly, and providing education and opportunity through degrees, trade certifications, or training. | Feldman supports reducing government spending and paying down the national debt to secure the country's financial future. |
| Healthcare | Harrigan is dedicated to improving VA healthcare and expanding job training programs to ensure veterans and their families receive the care and benefits they deserve. Harrigan votes yea on rural care improvement, Medicaid harm prevention, and lowering premiums, but nay on EARLY Act reauthorization and SUPPORT for Patients and Communities reauthorization. | Bell supports universal healthcare, holding insurance companies accountable to patients rather than allowing them to control care decisions. | Feldman favors market-based healthcare solutions to reduce costs and increase access, opposing government single-payer systems. |
| Where they differ on Healthcare: Ashley Bell supports universal healthcare and wants insurance companies to be accountable to patients instead of controlling care decisions 1. Pat Harrigan voted in favor of rural care improvement, Medicaid harm prevention, and lowering premiums, but voted against the EARLY Act reauthorization and SUPPORT for Patients and Communities reauthorization 2. Steven Feldman favors market-based healthcare solutions to reduce costs and increase access, and opposes government single-payer systems 3. | |||
| Immigration | Harrigan supports enforcing immigration laws, strengthening border security, combating human trafficking and drug smuggling, and modernizing the immigration system to protect communities and ensure fairness. Harrigan votes yea on securing America, supporting Homeland Security, BOWOW Act, deporting fraudsters, and stopping illegal entry, but nay on declaring a national emergency by the President. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Public Safety & Crime | Harrigan supports securing communities by respecting the rule of law, aligning federal and state laws, promoting personal responsibility, adequately funding police, and securing schools. Harrigan is committed to stopping the flow of drugs and crime at the border to restore order and sovereignty to the homeland. Harrigan votes yea on acts enhancing guard safety, prison staff safety, privacy in purchases, veterans' 2nd amendment rights, cashless bail reporting, and keeping violent offenders off streets. | Bell supports abolishing ICE and replacing it with an accountable agency focused on public safety and due process for all. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Abortion | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Bell supports protecting reproductive rights, including access to contraception and defending women's control over their own bodies and futures. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Taxes & Government Spending | Harrigan supports legislation that eliminates wasteful federal spending and promotes fiscal discipline to protect taxpayer funds. Harrigan votes yea on budget resolutions and appropriations acts but nay on the Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act. | Bell supports anti-corruption measures including banning congressional stock trading, ending Citizens United, abolishing dark money, and enabling working people to run their own campaigns. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Energy & Environment | Harrigan supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy leveraging natural resources, renewables, and nuclear power to achieve energy independence, lower costs, and reduce reliance on foreign adversaries. Harrigan votes yea on disapproving EPA rule and battlefield protection, and HEATS Act, but nay on diesel emissions reduction, marine conservation, and fuel retailer choice acts. | Bell supports the Green New Deal, promoting clean energy jobs, reducing pollution, and expanding public transit. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Harrigan is committed to strengthening the military, modernizing forces, supporting servicemembers, and maintaining America’s global leadership for freedom and security. Harrigan votes nay on resolutions directing troop removal from Iran and Lebanon, but yea on defense authorization, veterans clinic naming, and FISA amendments. | Bell opposes U.S. funding of Israel's actions against Palestinians, calling for an end to funding what she terms genocide. | Feldman supports focusing the military on defense, ending violent foreign policies, and improving international relations through peace and example. |