Policy Positions
Positions as of June 6, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Climate(2)
Strongly supports expanding domestic oil and natural gas production with a goal of making America the top exporter of oil and natural gas.
"It should be our goal to be the number one exporter of oil and natural gas. We have the natural resources available to us to reach that goal if we will get serious about it."
Opposes ceding national sovereignty to any international body, which implicitly extends to international climate agreements.
"Under no circumstances should we cede or grant any power to any international body that usurps our national sovereignty — no matter how noble the cause may seem."
Economy(3)
Supports a balanced budget amendment requiring the federal government to live within its means and reduce the national debt.
"Families across North Carolina and America are required to live within their means, and the Federal government should be forced to do the same. I will support a balanced budget amendment that requires Washington adhere to these same principles."
Supports reducing regulations and taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs to stimulate job creation and economic growth.
"We must create a business climate that is friendly to capital investment and job creation. We achieve that by getting rid of onerous rules and regulations that are making it difficult for our job creators to get access to credit and cost them unnecessary time and money."
Supports lowering taxes so individuals and businesses can keep more of their money to reinvigorate the economy.
"We need to lower all taxes so people can keep more of their money in order to help re-invigorate the economy and generate more revenues for the state. Lower taxes encourage innovation and reward the hard work necessary to create economic growth."
Education(3)
Supports returning to fundamentals of learning with a focus on critical thinking rather than rote memorization of facts.
"I believe we should return to the fundamentals of learning with a focus on critical thinking rather than the reciting of facts and figures that are forgotten soon after the test."
Supports improving teacher pay and providing teachers with the tools they need to succeed, while reducing paperwork and testing burdens.
"We also need to make sure that our teachers are taken care of and have the tools to be successful... Teachers should be allowed to focus on educating our students, not bogged down with paperwork and testing. We need to encourage our best and brightest to enter the teaching profession and reward them for their success."
Supports local control of education, with parents, teachers, and principals making decisions rather than the federal government.
"I believe that control of education needs to be in the hands of parents, teachers and principals at the local level. The federal government should get out of the way and let the states do what is best for their local school officials so that every child receives a quality education."
Guns(1)
Strongly supports Second Amendment rights as a proud NRA member, viewing gun rights as extending beyond hunting to self-defense against all threats.
"I am a proud member of the NRA, and a strong supporter of our Second Amendment rights. The Second Amendment is about much more than the right to hunt, as some seem to suggest. It is about protecting ourselves from enemies foreign and domestic."
Healthcare(3)
Strongly opposes the Affordable Care Act and calls for its full repeal, characterizing it as a $500 billion tax increase and government overreach.
"Obamacare must be repealed, and our healthcare system significantly reformed in order to bring down the cost of individual health care."
Supports preserving Medicare and Medicaid but calls for systemic reform to control costs, warning current trajectories are unsustainable.
"Medicare and Medicaid are important programs that we must preserve and to do that, we must address the systematic problems facing both programs. Otherwise, the cost of these two government-run programs will be unsustainable and will require a significant increase in taxes to pay for even fewer benefits."
Opposes government-controlled healthcare, instead advocating for free market reforms to increase competition and reduce costs.
"We must enact free market reforms in order to increase competition among health insurance companies, attract more of the very best and brightest to the health care profession, and increase transparency if we expect to reduce the cost of health care."
Immigration(2)
Supports securing the border using all available technology and manpower, including military forces, citing national security concerns.
"First, we must secure our borders using every technological tool available and all the manpower necessary, including use of our military forces. This is critical from a national security perspective – particularly in light of the new threats we face from terrorists organizations."
Supports reforming the legal immigration system by creating easy-to-use guest worker and high-skilled visa programs to meet agricultural and business labor needs.
"We should establish easy-to-use guest worker and high skilled visa programs so that our farmers can get the labor that they need at a reasonable cost... and our businesses can get the advanced skilled labor they need for product development."
Social Issues(2)
Opposes abortion and will fight for the rights of the unborn in Congress.
"I am pro-life and will do everything in my power in Congress to fight for the rights of the unborn in our country."
Opposes same-sex marriage, supporting the Biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, and co-sponsored a NC constitutional marriage amendment.
"I believe in the Biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman. This is the cornerstone to a productive and moral society. I was a co-sponsor of the Marriage Amendment to the NC Constitution and campaigned for its adoption by the people. I will vigorously fight any attempt by the courts to void the vote of the people of North Carolina."