Where Colby stands

Make life affordable again.

One test for every vote: does it lower your costs and put NC-08 first? Here's where Colby stands.

Cost of living

Lower your costs

The whole reason Colby's running: it costs too much to live a normal life in NC-08. Housing, groceries, health care, child care are all up. He'll take on whoever's driving those costs up.

Homes you can afford

  • Cut the red tape that blocks new homes
  • Stop Wall Street firms like Blackstone from buying up our neighborhoods
  • Give first-time buyers a fair shot

Groceries & gas

  • Crack down on corporate price-gouging on groceries and gas
  • Cut taxes for working families, not the well-connected

Prescriptions

  • Cap what seniors pay and hold insulin at $35
  • Let Medicare negotiate drug prices down

Child care

  • Back the bipartisan Britt–Kaine child care plan
  • Protect the child-care tax credit: up to $2,500 for one child, $4,000 for two
  • Let working parents keep more of their own paycheck

Debt & fees

  • Cap sky-high credit-card interest at 10%. It's now averaging 28.6%
  • Crack down on the junk fees that nickel-and-dime working families
Jobs & the local economy

Good jobs & the trades that built NC-08

Manufacturing is the #1 employer here, more than 50,000 jobs, and Colby's spent his life in the trades. He runs a construction company. He's pulled the permits, waited on the inspectors, and made payroll while Washington's red tape drove his costs up. He knows how to get government out of the way of people who build things.

Cut the bureaucracy

  • Cut the red tape that strangles small business and the trades
  • Stop punishing the people who build, make, and fix things

Bring jobs home

  • Back manufacturing and keep good jobs in America
  • Support the small businesses Main Street runs on

Train the next generation

  • Fund apprenticeships, trade schools, and job training
  • Reward skilled work with pay you can live on

Protect your paycheck

  • Make No Tax on Tips and Overtime permanent before it expires in 2028
  • Up to $25,000 in tips and $12,500 in overtime, tax-free. Colby's crews work overtime, and he'll protect it

Back our family farms

  • Anson, Richmond, and Scotland County run on farming. Back the bipartisan plan Senator Ted Budd wrote to help family farms get ahead
  • Colby will work with any Republican who's got a good idea for NC-08
Health care

Protect Medicare, Medicaid & our rural hospitals

Colby will work with Republicans like Senator Thom Tillis to keep our rural hospitals open. Even Tillis refused to gut Medicaid, but Mark Harris voted for the cuts twice and said they should have gone further. That puts coverage for 687,000 North Carolinians and the rural hospitals we depend on at risk. That's not conservative. It's extreme.

Keep rural hospitals open

  • Reverse the Medicaid cuts that gut them
  • Protect the care our small towns depend on

Medicare & Social Security

  • Block the cuts. A promise made is a promise kept
  • Lower prescription drug costs for seniors
  • Cover dental, vision, and hearing under Medicare
  • Fund in-home care so seniors and people with disabilities can stay in their own homes

Stand with our care workers

  • Health care is the #2 employer in NC-08, more than 46,000 jobs
  • Back the nurses, aides, and techs who keep us going
Safe communities

Safe streets, safe families

Back the blue

  • Our police are neighbors who run toward danger doing a thankless job
  • Fund them, train them, and stand with them

Get fentanyl off our streets

  • Crack down on the traffickers poisoning our kids
  • Back the HALT Fentanyl Act to lock up dealers

Addiction & recovery

  • Treat addiction like the disease it is
  • Back the bipartisan SUPPORT Act to fund treatment and recovery, so families get their people back
Immigration

Secure borders, same rules for everyone

Secure the border. The chaos and the fentanyl come through a broken system. And then make it fair.

Same rules for everyone

  • Come here legally and pay the same taxes you do
  • No one gets the benefits of America without paying their fair share

Make it actually work

  • Cut the red tape and clear the legal backlog
  • Crack down on companies that hire illegal labor to undercut your wages
Veterans & national security

Honor our veterans and our heroes

Keep our promise to those who served, with results, not just speeches.

Care where they live

  • Fully fund the Elizabeth Dole Act, named for our own North Carolina senator
  • Get veterans care at home, not just at a VA hours away

Keep the promise

  • Honor the PACT Act for veterans exposed to burn pits
  • Cut the red tape and delays at the VA

Stand with our heroes

  • Back the troops, veterans, and first responders who keep us safe
  • A strong defense and real support when they come home
Accountability

Clean out the insiders

Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio is up 70% while working families fell behind. Mark Harris owns stock in Blackstone, the Wall Street firm buying up single-family homes across North Carolina — whose billionaire CEO is one of Harris's biggest donors. Ban politicians from trading stocks in office, whether it's Pelosi or Mark Harris.

Ban the stock trading

  • Back the bipartisan ETHICS Act to ban it. Nearly 9 in 10 Americans agree
  • No more getting rich off information the rest of us don't have

No career politicians

  • Term limits. Service, not a career
  • Age limits and cognitive tests for the people making our laws
  • Get corporate PAC money out of politics

Honest elections

  • Every legal vote counts
  • Hold cheaters accountable. Mark Harris's own 2018 election was thrown out 5-0 for fraud
Education

Strong schools, parents at the table

Parents are a kid's first teacher. Colby's own parents homeschooled him, so he knows a child does best when parents are involved.

Back our schools & teachers

  • Fund strong local public schools
  • Pay our teachers what the job is worth

Real-world paths

  • Expand career & technical training and the trades
  • Not every kid needs a four-year degree to build a good life

Parents in charge

  • Keep decisions with parents and communities, not bureaucrats in Washington
  • Ban social media companies from collecting data on kids under 18
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