North Carolina — 2nd District

Deborah Ross

Supports federal abortion rights

Ross strongly advocates for reproductive freedom and restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade. She opposes state-level abortion bans enacted after Roe was overturned and highlights women's rights to make decisions about their own healthcare.

• Supports federal legislation restoring abortion rights nationwide under Roe v. Wade.
• Opposes state-level abortion restrictions enacted following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.
• Endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and #VoteProChoice.

“Today marks the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since it was overturned nearly four years ago, Republicans have unleashed extreme abortion bans in North”

“Four years ago today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping away a fundamental constitutional right and triggering the enactment of extreme abortion laws”

“Deborah strongly believes women should be able to make decisions about their bodies and health care.”

Eugene Douglass

Opposes abortion and supports fetal rights

Douglass supports protecting human life from conception until natural death and advocates ending abortion for birth control purposes. He opposes partial-birth abortion and calls for state-level regulation to protect innocent children.

• Calls to protect innocent human life from conception until natural death.
• Demands an end to abortion for birth control purposes and opposes partial-birth abortion.
• Advocates returning regulation of abortion to the states to spare lives.

“Protect Innocent Human Life, from Conception until Natural Death. End Abortion for birth control purposes, and regulate it to spare as many lives as possible, end the castration and mutilation of children to fit a depraved eugenics ideology.”

“Partial birth abortion is a totally unnecessary, gruesome medical procedure that needlessly ends the life of an almost-born baby boy or girl.”

Deborah Ross

Supports federal funding for public education

Ross advocates for investing in public education, reducing class sizes, increasing teacher pay, expanding early childhood education, and alleviating student loan debt. She also pushed to protect federal research funding for North Carolina universities.

• Supports public education, reducing class sizes, raising teacher pay, and expanding early childhood education.
• Advocates for alleviating student loan debt and protecting university research funding.
• Opposed Trump administration attempts to cut research funding at North Carolina universities.

“Deborah supports public education for all, reducing class sizes, raising teacher pay, investing in early childhood education, alleviating student loan debt—and more.”

“North Carolina universities lead the way in research to improve the health of all Americans. I’m relieved that Trump’s attempt to cut funding for their groundbreaking research is on hold for now, but this fight is not over.”

Eugene Douglass

Supports abolishing Federal Department of Education

Douglass advocates for completely eliminating the federal Department of Education and removing all federal regulations on schooling. He favors returning full control over education policy and administration to state and local authorities.

• Proposes getting the federal government out of local education entirely.
• Advocates disbanding the federal Department of Education and its regulations.
• Calls for returning education authority completely to state and local government.

“Get the Federal Government out of Local Education, disband the Department of Education and all it's regulations, to return to state and local authorities.”

Deborah Ross

Opposes restrictions on transgender participation

Ross supports LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality, earning endorsements from Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign. She voted against federal legislation aimed at banning transgender females from competing in women's sports programs.

• Voted Nay on H.R. 28, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025.
• Endorsed by Equality NC and Human Rights Campaign PAC.

“Honored to be endorsed by Equality NC. I have spent my career fighting for equality, justice, and progress, and I will always be a champion”

Eugene Douglass

Opposes gender-affirming care for youth

Douglass strongly opposes gender-affirming medical treatments for youth, characterizing transgender care for teenagers as mutilation, castration, and sterilization driven by depraved ideology. He asserts that sex is determined solely by God.

• Opposes medical gender-affirming care and procedures for minors and teenagers.
• Characterizes transgender treatments as castration, sterilization, and mutilation.
• Asserts that God alone determines gender.

“No sterilization/mutilation of confused teenagers to "change them to a different sex" based on their "feelings"”

“The "trans" movement is just a modern way to sterilize/castrate confused kids.”

“Only GOD has the right to choose our sex, and when we live or die!”

Deborah Ross

Supports targeted spending and social safety net

Ross supports investments in infrastructure, social safety net programs like SNAP, healthcare subsidies, and worker tax relief. She voted against major Republican tax and budget legislation that reduced safety-net spending or provided tax breaks for wealthy individuals.

• Opposed H.R.1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act / reconciliation) and H.Con.Res.14 budget resolution.
• Criticized cuts to SNAP food assistance and USDA spending impacting children and families.
• Voted for H.R.7024 (Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024).

“Trump’s Big Ugly Law has now taken food assistance away from 4 million people across the country, including 1.5 million children, all so the wealthy and well-connected can receive billions in tax handouts.”

“Taking food from children isn’t what I’d call cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse.””

Eugene Douglass

Supports smaller government and lower taxes

Douglass favors a smaller federal government, reduced regulations, lower tax burdens, and returning authority to state governments. He emphasizes fiscal discipline to ensure taxpayer dollars benefit all citizens rather than special interests.

• Advocates for smaller federal government, lower taxes, and fewer federal regulations.
• Calls for transferring federal responsibilities back to the 50 states.
• Prioritizes ensuring taxpayer funds are spent for general benefit rather than special interest groups.

“Small Federal Government, less regulation and lower taxes. Bring responsibility back to the 50 states.”

“As one more person trying to make sure taxpayer money is used for the benefit of all, not special interest groups or favored companies.”

Deborah Ross

Supports comprehensive immigration reform

Ross advocates for comprehensive immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, keeps families together, and strengthens border security. While she voted against broader Republican border bills like the Laken Riley Act and H.R. 2, she voted for measures penalizing noncitizens convicted of driving while impaired.

• Supports comprehensive immigration reform with pathways to citizenship and family unity.
• Voted Nay on S.5 (Laken Riley Act) and H.R. 2 (Secure the Border Act of 2023).
• Voted Yea on H.R. 875 (making DUI grounds for barring admission or deportation of noncitizens).

“In Congress, I am committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform to keep families together, enhance border security, provide a fair pathway to citizenship, and meet our nation’s economic needs.”

Eugene Douglass

Supports strict federal immigration enforcement

Douglass emphasizes the federal government's constitutional duty to defend the country and enforce uniform laws, favoring a smaller federal role overall while supporting strict border and national security enforcement.

• Identifies defending the country and regulating interstate/international commerce as core federal responsibilities.
• Supports uniform enforcement of federal laws.

“We should all work to decrease the size and responsibility of the federal government, to defend our country and regulate interstate and international commerce.”

Deborah Ross

Supports federal voting rights protections

Ross advocates for expanding voter registration and protecting voting access through federal legislation. She voted against the SAVE Act's documentary proof of citizenship requirement and opposes federal efforts to alter state election administration under threat of losing emergency funding.

• Voted Yea on H.R. 1 (For the People Act of 2021) to expand voter access and reform election laws.
• Voted Nay on H.R. 22 (SAVE Act) requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections.
• Opposed federal threats to withhold counterterrorism/emergency funding over state election administration.

“North Carolina is joining two dozen other states in suing the Trump administration, alleging the federal government is unlawfully threatening to strip counterterrorism and emergency response funding from the state if it doesn’t make certain changes to how it administers elections.”

Eugene Douglass

Supports constitutional governance and state control

Douglass advocates returning governance responsibilities to the states and adhering strictly to the U.S. Constitution, emphasizing state-level authority over federal mandates.

• Supports returning responsibility and power back to the 50 states.
• Emphasizes fulfilling the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights to ensure true representation.

“To remain a Republic, with true representation of our Citizens, and the several states.”

Deborah Ross

Supports expanding affordable healthcare access

Ross advocates for making healthcare more affordable and accessible, supporting Affordable Care Act subsidies, Medicare prescription drug price negotiations, and expanding public healthcare coverage.

• Voted Yea on H.R. 5376 (Inflation Reduction Act) extending ACA subsidies and allowing Medicare drug price negotiations.
• Prioritizes expanding affordable and accessible healthcare for all North Carolinians.

“Our fight for affordable, accessible health care is more important than ever. Deborah works hard to make affordable health care more accessible to all North Carolinians.”

Eugene Douglass

Opposes government interference in end-of-life care

Douglass opposes medical decision-making that cuts short life, including partial-birth abortion and euthanasia for the elderly or vulnerable, holding that life decisions belong strictly to God.

• Opposes ending lives of elderly or vulnerable individuals because of care burdens.
• Asserts that only God has the right to decide when people live or die.

“Protect innocent human life, from conception until natural death. Free from molestation, mistreatment, and even others deciding their lives are not worth living.”

“protecting of children from mentally ill adults who want to cut off their body parts, and those elderly who have become too much trouble to live on under care.”

Deborah Ross

Supports clean energy and combating climate change

Ross views climate change as an existential threat and supports clean energy initiatives, clean drinking water investments, and environmental preservation while opposing fracking.

• Voted Yea on H.R. 3684 (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) and H.R. 5376 (Inflation Reduction Act).
• Voted Nay on H.R. 1 (Lower Energy Costs Act).
• Endorsed by Sierra Club North Carolina and LCV Action Fund.

“Climate change represents an existential threat to our people and our planet. Deborah supports clean energy alternatives, opposes fracking, and fights to preserve NC’s environmental heritage.”

Deborah Ross

Supports federal gun safety regulations

Ross advocates for federal gun safety measures to reduce gun violence, earning endorsements from major gun prevention advocacy organizations. She voted in favor of banning assault weapons.

• Voted Yea on H.R. 1808 (Assault Weapons Ban of 2022).
• Endorsed by GIFFORDS, Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady Campaign, and Moms Demand Action.

“I’m proud to have the support of GIFFORDS in my campaign for reelection. I’ll never stop fighting to reduce senseless gun violence, protect our communities”