Kyah Creekmore
Kyah Creekmore (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina's 5th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Creekmore completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kyah Creekmore was born in Lakeland, Florida. He attended Haines City International Baccalaureate Program & West Mecklenburg High School. He attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. His career experience includes working in customer service. He has been affiliated with Carolina Federation and Guilford For All.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: North Carolina's 5th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 5
Incumbent Virginia Foxx, Kyah Creekmore, Chuck Hubbard, and David Clayton are running in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 5 on November 3, 2026.
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 | Kyah Creekmore (D)  | |
 | Chuck Hubbard (D) | |
 | David Clayton (Independent) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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After high school, I attended North Carolina A&T for Industrial & Systems Engineering. College showed me I was good at learning, but my passion was people, not production lines. I explored small business, gaming, and content creation, winning $8,000 in a Call of Duty tournament, but also faced mental and financial lows that forced reflection.
Through it all, I realized how detached government feels from real life. When I saw leaders like Donald Trump rise through division and privilege, I asked myself: if people like me don’t step up, who will? I’m running because I believe everyday people — not the wealthy and connected — deserve the loudest voice in our democracy. I’d rather fight to build change than sit back and complain about the lack of it.- Health Care is a Non-Negotiable Human right.
People shouldn't be choosing dinner over their doctor.
A Grandmother shouldn't debate whether to get a checkup because the medical debt in their family is too stressful.
We shouldn't have people rationing pills because Big Pharma needs a couple billion extra dollars to feed their CEO's.
Sickness shouldn't have a PROFIT INCENTIVE. - We deserve housing that doesn't cost a lifetime's savings to acquire. We deserve housing that doesn't cost 50% of your paycheck and provides nothing but issues from slumlords. 30% of single family households shouldn't be owned by private equity artificially capping supply to up demand and pricing. The people are fed up and getting desperate.
- The workers of America deserve so much more. They deserve a Worker's Constitution. For over 15 years the minimum wage hasn't gone up at all. People get fired, framed, and laid off work at unbelievable clips in every single industry. Every corporation has more power to abuse and manipulate workers, union busting is at an all time high, unionization is at an all time LOW, corporations are raking in record profits all while there's record efficiency, record unemployment, record low jobs numbers. We must begin to put the people first and give workers back their dignity where 1 job can afford a family , where food isn't out of reach, and home's don't cost a fortune.
Healthcare & Care incentives (from profit -->People)
Workers Right's & Unionization laws
Monopolies & trust busting
Healthier & highly regulated food/nutrition
Consumer Rights (Similar to those in the EU)
& finally:
My mother taught me powerful emotional strength and gritty determination. She still hasn't made it out the struggle fully but from where she began being r*ped and having me at 15, being abused all her life, becoming an adult from such a young age, dealing with poverty and abusive relationships, figuring out how to pay the bills by any means necessary while raising 4 children largely without stability of homes, schools, income, relationships, any family help at all, fighting depression, she's the strongest woman I know. She's a little broken after all that hardship but I feel as though really soon I can start to take care of her like she done me and my siblings for so long and mend her back whole.
My father, though wasn't with my mother since I was 1, he would pick me up every weekend. Taught me how to have a good understanding of who and what I'm dealing with. Taught me how to play video games and sports. I asked a lot of questions and he answered a lot of questions. He was my break away from the chaos at home. He taught me how to be emotionally intelligent and has allowed me to have an excellent character and still is one of my favorite people to talk to so I'm thankful for that.
Malcom X: He's just one of the greatest black figures we'd ever had grace the USA. He was extremely intelligent and well versed in history. He was extremely clear with his ideas but also clear of mind. He was exactly what people need today and may still have if he wasn't taken out by our government.
Moral clarity: Knowing or EDUCATING yourself on history, to ensure that you're always choosing the oppressed over the oppressor. Our leaders pretend history only lasts as long as the news cycle, and that these laws don't actually affect and often destroy people's lives & that must change.
Honesty: Saying what you believe is right no matter who disagree with that and making your argument for it no matter what. Just because everyone believed racism was okay in the 1900's didn't make it right, and it took those that stood on that hill & often died for it to change the public perception as to what's right & what's wrong.
Transparency: Everything in our government nearly is done in the dark, making & writing policy, the meetings, etc. We must show the American people not only what we do, but how we do it, and promote growth & leadership in our communities so that there can be more good willed public servants within local and federal legislatures.
Outspokenness: Specifically not being bought by corporate, foreign, or big donor interests allows me & others to speak on any issues we desire with no qualms except with our constituents. We must make sure we hold other's accountable & stop using the government as a self promoting power structure & instead start doing things for and by the people. They won't stop being a roach in the dark if they keep getting light shined on them.
Ensure that the people of their district ultimately see their lives get better year over year.
Ensure that they make connections between schools & jobs, grants and trades, non-profits & those in need get the help they deserve.
Ensure that when the people need them to stand up, at a moment's notice, they are there to rally the movement.
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant. It's really great storytelling and shows a part of human perception we get wrong about where to actually find the people that are the best in the world at the things they do. I won't spoil it, but the Hidden potential lies in the person's passion & drive for whatever it is they do, and often the people we look at as the best in the world today were actually average at best in their high school teams or other groups. Determination to be the best made them the best. Being comfortable being uncomfortable made them the best. I've been getting extremely uncomfortable putting myself out there to the public, speaking at events and local government meetings and the like. I feel a lot of mirroring in lessons in this book that I've been listening to long before I ever bought it.
Tobey McGuire from the OG trilogy is the GOAT.
It's the most bought out & corrupt institution you can find anywhere. An interest outside of the American people have purchased their way to power & influence across all sectors of the house. It uniquely needs much reform to ensure that we as legislators (when I get there) must do our job and put the people first every time. uniquely, it seems to be the only institution that can talk about the American people the least while hurting them the most. The house has the most power out of any part of our government yet the most rampant exploited problems.
We must have more people that are simply willing to learn how to write laws, put the people first, and be the voice of the voiceless even in the most tumultuous times. Being of the very oppressed people you'll represent benefits you so much more than 2 terms in city council or a political podcast.
Our algorithms push violence & outrage.
Our republican "leaders" push violence & outrage.
Our podcast bros push violence & outrage many times.
Lies & blatant misinformation is rampant.
I believe there should also be a law written (I've made & am still working on a proposal for this) that allows the people to actually vote to have a special election and force their representative to fight for their seat if they don't properly represent the will of the people. So that the people aren't stuck for 4 years with representation they don't like but ALSO they're able to vote them out if the representation isn't up to par.
There should be a maximum of 15 years and also an Age limit of 75. If there's an age barrier to entry at 25, then it only makes sense.
Many times the compromise simply is: Make it worse & watered down and provide loopholes that the wealthiest & most powerful among us can exploit and pretend we fixed the problem.
For example they "compromised" to get the build back better act turned into the inflation reduction act where they ruined many of the greatest parts of the bill to "compromise" with bad actors with self interests at play. It's not desirable unless it's for the better good of the people but not it just being argued that way, it legitimately have the people centered in the writing so that the implementation actually is enhanced as a result of the compromise in the long run.
I'm proud of my ability to have quit sports gambling fully as it was getting out of control and hurting my mental health and relationships.
I'm proud of stepping outside my comfort zone whenever I push back on others offering me an opportunity to do something I typically wouldn't do like a talent show, I somehow at the last second push my self to do it.
I'm proud I even have been working to make a campaign and put my self on the ballot.
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 17, 2025
