- See Valerie Foushee's sponsored bills →Valerie FousheeDemocraticIncumbent✓ Verified$1.0M raised
- Mahesh GanorkarRepublican✓ Verified$19K raised
- Guy MeilleurLibertarian✓ Verified
Where they stand
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| Issue | Valerie FousheeDemocratic | Mahesh GanorkarRepublican | Guy MeilleurLibertarian |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Foushee supports lowering everyday costs, opposing tariffs and corporate price gouging, promoting affordable housing, and backing unions to strengthen the economy for working families. Foushee votes yea on technology and financial protection bills but nay on capital access, privacy, and KIDS Act measures. | Ganorkar says jobs and wages in the district face pressure from policies he says tolerate unauthorized labor, and calls for reviving Durham's historic Black business district. | Meilleur supports expanding education choice and rewarding innovative teachers to strengthen economic opportunity in North Carolina. |
| Healthcare | Foushee considers healthcare a universal right and supports Medicaid expansion, defending the Affordable Care Act, Medicare for All, and fighting pharmaceutical price gouging. Foushee supports healthcare as a human right, expanding Medicare, addressing health disparities, and ensuring accessible, equitable healthcare for all Americans. Foushee votes yea on rural care and patient support acts but nay on Medicaid harm and lowering health care premiums bills. | No public position found. | Meilleur supports increasing healthcare choice and innovation by reducing government regulation and empowering patients and providers. |
| Immigration | Foushee opposes Trump’s immigration policies, supports limiting ICE’s authority, mandates body cameras for agents, and works to hold ICE accountable for abuses. Foushee supports comprehensive immigration reform that eases citizenship pathways for DACA recipients and Dreamers, ends family separations and travel bans, and treats immigrants with dignity regardless of status. Foushee votes nay on multiple immigration enforcement and security bills but yea on a national emergency resolution. | Ganorkar supports current ICE enforcement, saying those who unlawfully obstruct law enforcement should be arrested and prosecuted. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Where they differ on Immigration: Valerie Foushee opposes Trump’s immigration policies, supports limiting ICE’s authority, mandates body cameras for agents, and works to hold ICE accountable for abuses 1. She votes nay on multiple immigration enforcement and security bills but yea on a national emergency resolution 2. Mahesh Ganorkar supports current ICE enforcement and believes those who unlawfully obstruct law enforcement should be arrested and prosecuted 3. | |||
| Public Safety & Crime | Foushee advocates ending cash bail, abolishing private prisons, and decriminalizing marijuana to address systemic racism in public safety. Foushee supports reinstating the federal assault weapons ban, enforcing background checks, banning high-capacity magazines, and expanding gun violence prevention programs to improve community safety. Foushee votes yea on prison staff safety and guard acts but nay on privacy, veterans 2nd amendment, bail, and violent offender bills. | No public position found. | Meilleur supports restorative justice to rebalance the criminal justice system and restore equal justice for all. |
| Abortion | Foushee protects reproductive rights by sponsoring legislation to remove abortion barriers and working to codify Roe and protect contraceptive access. | No public position found. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Taxes & Government Spending | Foushee supports a progressive tax system increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy while providing relief and credits to low and middle-income families. Foushee votes yea on tax relief and AGOA extension but nay on budget resolutions and multiple appropriations acts. | Ganorkar calls government spending his top issue, proposing to end baseline budgeting in favor of need-based budgeting that requires every program to justify its funding. | Meilleur supports cutting budgets by empowering Inspectors General to track spending and reducing taxes and the deficit. |
| Energy & Environment | Foushee supports the Green New Deal and investments in green transit to combat climate change and transition to a clean energy economy. Foushee supports building a sustainable energy infrastructure, moving away from fossil fuels, strengthening environmental laws, and funding agencies like the National Park Service to protect natural resources. Foushee votes yea on diesel emissions and conservation acts but nay on EPA disapproval, consumer choice, and HEATS acts. | No public position found. | Meilleur supports empowering people to sue polluters who poison air and water to protect the environment. |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Foushee votes yea on resolutions to remove troops from Iran and Lebanon and on a veterans clinic bill but nay on defense authorization and FISA extension. | No public position found. | Meilleur supports equipping countries for self-defense and ending U.S. support for attacks on neighbors or tyrants. |
| Where they differ on Foreign Policy & Defense: Valerie Foushee voted in favor of resolutions to remove troops from Iran and Lebanon and supported a veterans clinic bill, but voted against the defense authorization and the FISA extension 1. Guy Meilleur supports equipping countries for self-defense and ending U.S. support for attacks on neighbors or tyrants 2. | |||