Policy Positions
Positions as of June 6, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Economy(9)
Supports small businesses by ending tax breaks for outsourcing, improving capital access, expanding rural broadband, making childcare more affordable, and protecting them from monopolistic practices.
"He will support small businessesâthe backbone of local economiesâby ending tax breaks for outsourcing, improving access to capital, expanding broadband in rural areas, making childcare more affordable, and ensuring monopolists do not unfairly crush smaller competitors."
Supports tax fairness by requiring billionaires and mega-corporations to pay their fair share while protecting the middle class from tax increases.
"Brent also emphasizes tax fairness, insisting that billionaires and mega-corporations pay their fair share while protecting the middle class from increases."
Supports protecting workers through fair wages, secure retirement, livable incomes, and ensuring productivity gains translate to higher worker wages.
"Brent is committed to protecting the dignity of work by ensuring fair wages, secure retirement, and livable incomes, while promoting technical training and making sure people can get a good job and not just a degree."
Opposes Trump's tariff-based trade policies, which he believes have fueled inflation and harmed working families.
"Brent understands how inflation, fueled by tariffs, the pandemic, and corporate profiteering, has strained families in North Carolina's 14th District. He believes Congress must not cede responsibility to Trump's failed trade policies and instead advance an economic vision that prioritizes working people."
Opposes Trump's trade policies, viewing tariffs as a driver of inflation that harms working families.
"Brent understands how inflation, fueled by tariffs, the pandemic, and corporate profiteering, has strained families in North Carolina's 14th District. He believes Congress must not cede responsibility to Trump's failed trade policies"
Supports strong worker protections and a robust social safety net in response to automation and AI displacing workers, drawing on his background as a union organizer.
"This time around we must listen to our neighbors if they say they are hurting and provide a strong social safety net to ensure we all gain from these momentous changes."
Supports domestic manufacturing by opposing offshoring incentives and addressing the harm caused by mass offshoring of manufacturing jobs.
"The invention of the shipping container allowed the mass offshoring of manufacturing. This devastated blue collar jobs and communities...Rather than redress the human suffering we all saw developing, American elites blamed the workers"
Opposes offshoring of manufacturing, arguing it devastated blue-collar communities and placed vital industries in hostile nations, implying support for domestic manufacturing policy.
"The invention of the shipping container allowed the mass offshoring of manufacturing. This devastated blue collar jobs and communities, giving room for despair, the opioid epidemic, and the decline of the American family, and opened us to surges of inflation like we saw in the pandemic while placing industries vital to national security in hostile nations."
Implicitly opposes policies that concentrate wealth at the top while leaving workers unemployed, framing extreme inequality as a failure condition for AI-driven economic change.
"If America has the first trillionaire while 30% of workers are unemployed, we will have failed in tragic fashion."
Healthcare(5)
Supports protecting, improving, and building upon the Affordable Care Act, including adding a public option to help control costs.
"He will protect, improve, and build upon the Affordable Care Act with the addition of a public option to the marketplace to help control costs."
Supports a public option added to the ACA marketplace as a step toward broader coverage and cost control.
"He will protect, improve, and build upon the Affordable Care Act with the addition of a public option to the marketplace to help control costs. He will support guaranteed coverage of preventive care services to every American, including preventative coverage such as yearly check-ups, dental, and eye care."
Opposes cuts to Medicaid and raises concern about profit-driven insurance company management of Medicaid in North Carolina.
"though Medicaid was expanded in North Carolina it is run by insurance companies that work for profit, and the cuts are coming."
Supports improving access to prenatal and postnatal care, noting that 26 North Carolina counties lack an OBGYN and the U.S. has a rising maternal mortality rate.
"Twenty-six North Carolina counties don't have a single OBGYN, and too many women are going without the prenatal and postnatal care they need. This is part of why the United States is the only industrialized country to have an increasing maternal mortality rate."
Supports addressing drug affordability, citing that a third of patients struggle to afford medications and criticizing federal cuts to vaccine and medication supply options.
"the Kaiser Foundation reports a third of patients are having difficulty affording the medications they need, and/or have not taken their medication due to cost. And now, the federal government is cutting access to vaccines and medication supply options."
Social Issues(1)
Expresses a general principle of personal liberty and tolerance for differing lifestyles without stating a specific policy position on LGBTQ+ rights.
"Such tolerance is the price to be paid for all to maintain their natural right of liberty... lots of people that just want to live differently than I would in their circumstances. On some level I think most get that is okay."