North Carolina Anticipates Five Unpredictable Races In 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Hines supports gun rights, free speech, pro-life policies, term limits, and economic policies that discourage moving jobs overseas.
55% : Her platform includes support for the Green New Deal, a $23 minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, reducing the defense budget, and nationwide abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.
49% :Budd's platform mentions fighting corruption from big tech companies, creating jobs, stopping socialism, and letting parents control their child's education.
48% :McCrory's campaign site focuses on his past successes as governor, citing reduced taxes, actions to end sanctuary cities, infrastructure improvements, and stopping Antifa riots using the National Guard.
41% : The other Democratic candidate is Erica Smith, a progressive Democrat who supports canceling all student loan debt, subsidizing small farms, a single-payer health care system, increased clean energy, reduced automatic removal of illegal immigrants, free education from pre-kindergarten to college, and nationwide abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.
41% : His platform includes opposing legislation that keeps men from entering women's bathrooms, promoting gun control measures, criminal justice reform, opposing pro-life laws, promoting social justice, and expanding funding for schools.
37% : On policy, Beasley supports Obamacare, gun control, citizenship for illegal immigrants, a higher minimum wage, cutting 50 percent of carbon emissions in the next eight years, higher restrictions on police use of force, and nationwide abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.
24% : Nickel supports increased taxes on the rich, a $15 minimum wage, increased education funding, universal healthcare with options for private healthcare, criminal justice reform, pro-LGBT legislation, gun control, and abortion.
17% :Foushee has a platform including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, decreased ICE funding, legalizing marijuana, increased restrictions on police, making election day a holiday, the Green New Deal, canceling student debt, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and support for abortion.

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