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Elections and appointments
Last election

March 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Wesleyan College, 1989

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Pfeiffer University, 2006

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Nalini Joseph (Republican Party) (also known as Lillian) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina's 14th Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.

Joseph completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Nalini Lillian Joseph earned a B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan College in 1989 and an Master's in Health Administration from Pfeiffer University in 2006. Joseph's career experience includes working in management and administration, as the district administrator of a guardian ad litem program, and owning a small business.[1][2] As of 2024, Joseph was affiliated with the Rowan County Republican Party.[2][2][3]

Elections

2024

See also: North Carolina's 14th Congressional District election, 2024

North Carolina's 14th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)

North Carolina's 14th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 14

Timothy K. Moore defeated Pamela Genant in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 14 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Timothy K. Moore
Timothy K. Moore (R)
 
58.1
 
232,987
Image of Pamela Genant
Pamela Genant (D)
 
41.9
 
168,269

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 401,256
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 14

Pamela Genant defeated Brendan K. Maginnis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 14 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Pamela Genant
Pamela Genant
 
60.8
 
20,389
Image of Brendan K. Maginnis
Brendan K. Maginnis Candidate Connection
 
39.2
 
13,121

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 33,510
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 14

Timothy K. Moore defeated Jeff Gregory and Nalini Joseph in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 14 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Timothy K. Moore
Timothy K. Moore
 
75.0
 
55,644
Image of Jeff Gregory
Jeff Gregory
 
12.9
 
9,562
Image of Nalini Joseph
Nalini Joseph Candidate Connection
 
12.1
 
8,996

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 74,202
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2022

See also: North Carolina's 12th Congressional District election, 2022

North Carolina's 12th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Republican primary)

North Carolina's 12th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 12

Incumbent Alma Adams defeated Tyler Lee in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 12 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Alma Adams
Alma Adams (D)
 
62.7
 
140,494
Image of Tyler Lee
Tyler Lee (R)
 
37.3
 
83,414

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 223,908
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 12

Incumbent Alma Adams defeated John Sharkey in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 12 on May 17, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Alma Adams
Alma Adams
 
91.7
 
37,984
Image of John Sharkey
John Sharkey Candidate Connection
 
8.3
 
3,460

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 41,444
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 12

Tyler Lee defeated Andrew Huffman and Nalini Joseph in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 12 on May 17, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Tyler Lee
Tyler Lee
 
42.9
 
10,388
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Andrew Huffman
 
34.3
 
8,311
Image of Nalini Joseph
Nalini Joseph Candidate Connection
 
22.9
 
5,543

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 24,242
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Nalini Joseph completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Joseph's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I went into a convenient store in one of the rural parts of my district late: around ten o’clock at night. I asked the cashier how her night was going, just making small-talk about the area and her night job. She started talking about a man that walked into the store last night and took off with a case of beer without paying for it. She had asked him for his ID when he came up to check out. He didn’t have one and started to argue with her about his age when she said she couldn’t sell him the beer without the ID. She was too afraid to confront him, knowing that he may be watching her, to see whether she would pick up her phone to dial 911. She said last night wasn’t the first time…and they usually drive off in nice cars. I told her that I was running for an elected office and let her know that I would absolutely help advocate for young mothers like her, working a full-time job to take care of her family. We both agreed on accountability and deterrents for criminals.

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Note: Joseph submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on February 6, 2024.

Campaign website

Joseph’s campaign website stated the following:

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Secure Our Porous Borders. Stop Drug and Human Trafficking.
Our country is in a code blue emergency right now! Washington needs to stop talking about band-aids and fix this huge threat to our safety and security.

Yes, throughout our history, legal immigration has helped fuel our economic engine. Legal Immigrants have helped make ours a vibrant, prosperous country. But we and we alone, should decide who comes in and who does not.

No sovereign country can remain sovereign absent secure borders. A country that cannot control its borders cannot control its destiny.

Once the border is secure, we can have a discussion about those allowed to come in as guest workers, and who is eligible for a path to citizenship once they have entered into our country legally!

Reducing Our National Debt
When President Bush was elected in 2000, our national debt was six trillion dollars. By the year 2030, it is projected to grow to more than fifty trillion dollars. Interest costs are expected to exceed $70 trillion over the next 30 years. By the end of this decade, interest costs will exceed the entire military budget of the United States.

Thanks to office holders that fumble when asked to make difficult decisions, our Congress is saddling America’s young generation with an unconscionable burden; a level of debt unseen in our nation’s history.

It is time to reign in deficit spending:

  • We need to cap the amount of deficit spending allowed when budgets are passed by Congress instead of spending first and raising the debt limit later to pay the bills.
  • Congress must do its job, which includes a comprehensive audit of federal agencies and spending programs to find ways to reduce their cost, eliminate duplicate programs, and improve technology so that more can be done with less.
  • We should pass a constitutional amendment requiring that Congress balance the budget, with a provision that deficits are permitted only in a national emergency, and passed by a two-thirds margin by both the House and the Senate.

Pro-Life. Pro-2A. Pro-Parent.
Pro-Life.
I believe God is the author of life; that life begins at conception; that the unborn have a right to life. It is our obligation as Americans and as a society to protect life.

Pro-2A.
I believe the second amendment to the Constitution means what it says. That all law-abiding Americans have an inalienable right to keep and bear arms.

Pro-Parent.
I believe parents have an absolute right to know what their children are being taught. The right' to be heard when questions arise about school curriculums, the right to object when attempts are made to indoctrinate their children. Schools are not the right place to have teacher-child discussions about a child's gender identity or sexual orientation. Schools should not be the place to discuss topics like Critical Race Theory (CRT). I have a child in the North Carolina Public School system and I have vocalized and defended my family's beliefs about sex education, CRT and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) topics. I have said NO and the school personnel have respected my wishes to keep these harmful discussions away from my child.

Containing China’s Threat to the United States
For years, the United States tolerated a Communist Regime that manipulated its currency, ran up huge trade surpluses, stole the intellectual property of U.S. companies, and lied about what they were doing.

China is now an economic and military superpower with the largest Navy on the planet; a hostile regime that threatens trade routes of free nations in the South China Sea; a surveillance state that locks up minorities in concentration camps and persecutes Christians who worship the same God we do.

In the face of this threat, we must:

  • Make our Navy the largest and most technologically advanced in the world.
  • Establish a new trade alliance with democratic and freedom loving nations that treat Chinese aggression on one as an attack on all.
  • Strengthen the security of our dams, water supply, electric grid and energy supplies.

Ours is the only country on the planet with the power to contain China’s goal of world domination, and force it to abide the rules of peaceful nations.

We must lead.

Reversing the Decline of American Education
We are failing to adequately prepare school aged children for the challenges of a 21st century world. American children lag behind the rest of the world in reading, math and science. They are being outperformed by students in East Asia, Europe and Canada.

In a 21st century world about to enter a second technological revolution, and an America facing fierce competition from China for dominance in technology, we must do a better job educating our young in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

We must:

  • Increase the supply of science and math teachers and deploy them to the classrooms by increasing college scholarships for those willing to enter the field.
  • Encourage school systems to establish specialty High Schools that focus on advanced studies in science, technology and math.
  • Encourage high schools to offer specialize job training for students who plan to enter the work force after receiving their high school diploma.
  • Encourage the creation of Trade Schools for students that are not college bound.
  • Insist that all who are granted a high school diploma have the skills required to get a job, join the military or go to college.

Made in the U.S.A.
Some industries are too important and too vital to the security of the United States to be located anywhere other than on U.S. soil. Never again should we have to depend on foreign countries for vital medical supplies or life-saving drugs. Never again should new cars sit unsold because we outsourced computer chips to a foreign country. We should never allow any country to corner the market on rare earth metals that we need to make computers, wind turbines, lasers, fiber optics and superconductors.

It is critical to our national security that products critical to our economic engine and our military might be made in American factories that employ American workers.

Ban Stock Trading by Members of Congress
No Member of Congress should be allowed to profit from information not available to the public. And Members who are provided private classified briefings, advance notice of policy decisions or closed-door meetings with key decision makers should not be allowed to use that information to feather their financial nest.

What is illegal on Wall Street should be illegal for Members of Congress. I will support the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act, which would force Members of Congress to divest or place in a blind trust stocks owned by the Member, the Member's spouse, or their dependents.

Protecting America from Cyber Attacks
We face daily assaults from hostile regimes -- cyberattacks, malware, viruses and spyware that attack our pipelines, ports, dams, hospitals, factories and electric grid. A successful strike that shuts down a portion of our electric grid would cripple our food supply chains, water systems, pipelines and knock a crater sized hole in the American economy.

​It is a national security threat that requires a coordinated national response:

  • Redouble our efforts to protect vital and critical infrastructure, electric lines and power supplies.
  • Ensure that the newly created Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has the funding and teeth necessary to protect us.
  • Work with state and local governments, schools and law enforcement agencies to modernize their technology and security systems.

Strengthening the American Family
While the arguments over the direction of the United States and the country we shall be in ten, twenty or fifty years from now continue, a fundamental part of the discussion is missing -- the future of the American family. It's an institution that is disintegrating before our eyes.

Too many children are growing up in single-parent households without a father in their life. Forty percent (40%) of children raised by single mothers live in poverty.

Children who grow up in single-parent families are more likely to have mental-health problems, perform poorly in school, drop out of school, attempt suicide, commit crimes or end up in prisons.

Our country faces many challenges. We speak too little of the gravest of all, for the most important institution in America is the family. Our social welfare system penalizes parents who stay together. It fails to lift people out of poverty. It snares too many in a cycle of dependence that often lasts for generations. Children are the victims.

We can do better. We have to.

As we look for ways to reduce federal spending and streamline essential programs…as we examine the budget for food stamps, welfare, housing assistance, child care, health care, family and mental health counseling, we must find a better and more efficient way to deliver help to those who need it - to get them back on their feet so they can scale the rungs of the economic ladder without a lifetime of dependence.[4]

”
—Lillian Joseph’s campaign website (2024)[5]

2022

Candidate Connection

Nalini Joseph completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Joseph's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I have served as a leader in the public and private sectors for over thirty years in various capacities of management and administration. I have served in Mecklenburg and other southwestern counties as Guardian ad Litem District Administrator for abused and neglected children through the North Carolina Administrative office of the Courts

I own and operate two businesses: Lini's Mahal LLC and Lillian Rosh LLC.

I serve on numerous boards and task forces, including the Chief Justice's Task Force on ACE's-Informed Courts. 

I'm an American of Asian origin, a Christian, born and raised in India, and am the youngest daughter of two life-long United Methodist missionaries to India.

I firmly believe that America is by far the world's greatest Republic and the land of opportunity. Every American is given equal opportunity to excel and be exceptional. I am a strong political, social and fiscal conservative; pro-life, lower taxes, lower spending, balanced budget, increased American manufacturing, Christian family values, service to others and the invaluable role of education (math and science based).

I pray and thank Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, for the privilege of being an American and humbly ask for your vote.

Thank you and God bless America!

  • Preserving our FREEDOMS - specifically education and our second amendment rights
  • PRO-LIFE: preserve the sanctity of Life
  • Re-vitalize manufacturing and increase high-paying jobs in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties.
PRO-LIFE issues are of paramount importance.

Return major decision-making authority in regard to K-12 education back into the control of state and local governments.

Energy - independence

Foreign Policy

Control Inflation, balance the budget, stop printing money
I admire Mother Teresa, who I interned with in Calcutta and Delhi, India. I remember Billy Graham visiting India and touching Mother Teresa's feet, as is a customary show of great respect in India. In my life-long career of serving the most vulnerable of our state - our abused and neglected children - I have attempted to fashion my mindset and energies according to great servant leaders such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
"Tear down this wall Mr. Gorbachev" - President Ronald Reagan to General Secretary Gorbachev - dismantling of the Berlin Wall. I was 21 years old.
As an immigrant to the United States at the age of 18, I worked in my college cafeteria as a kitchen worker. I worked in this job for two years while attending college with a full-time course-load.
Is it beneficial - absolutely it is beneficial to have previous experience in government. Is it necessary - no. It's fashionable for new candidates to go on the campaign trail and say things like "I'm not a career politician - I'm just a mom".

I myself, am very new to this field of elected office - having spent much of my career in the courts and reading legal documents. I very much appreciate the fact that experience in reading, understanding and writing bills and house resolutions is very important. The language contained in them is not simple to understand. It is a huge responsibility when one is representing hundreds of thousands of people in the home district and working to move their well being forward. This is a far cry from discussing politics over dinner.
To preserve our freedoms and educate our young in Math and the Sciences; we must increase our level of expectations and educational outcomes so we can compete with global competition.
Ways and Means

House Appropriations Committee
Yes
Term limits are necessary so that new and fresh ideas are always part of our governmental cycle and efficiencies.
Rep Harry Warren of the North Carolina House of Representatives (and even though he is a senator and not a rep. Senator Carl Ford of the North Carolina Senate)
Yes, compromise through strong negotiations is necessary in order to not continually end up in gridlock where nothing is finally accomplished.

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Campaign website

Joseph's campaign website stated the following:

“

Issues:​

  • The threat of Asymmetrical Warfare from external forces & Foreign Policy
    • Cybersecurity is paramount - the internet is the backbone of the international banking system, our power grid and our water supply. A successful breach in any of these systems via either the internet or otherwise will paralyze business and us citizens alike.
      • Our city of Charlotte is the second largest banking hub in the country. While we do have massive redundancy built into all our systems - thanks to our great engineers. However, we have to always be cognizant China and Russia are NOT our friends and are a constant threat to our systems.
    • The terrorists who took down our twin towers may be quiet for now but let's not stop being vigilant against terrorism​
    • CDC says 980,000 Americans are dead due to direct or indirect effects of COVID (the Wuhan Virus) - what is it going to take for us to realize China is NOT our friend ?​
  • ​​​Economic policies
    • Botched left leaning policies that affect our daily lives
      • Exorbitant Gasoline prices and Inflation
        • Shutting down the Keystone pipeline​
        • Refusing permits for new drilling in Prudhoe bay
      • Supply chain issues - leading to empty shelves in grocery stores, construction industry slowdowns due to lack of building materials and the list goes on
      • The long term economic and financial effects of COVID on our businesses
      • Hyperinflation - The long term effects of the executive branch coercing the FED into printing trillions of dollars in currency
  • Domestic & Social Issues
    • Sanctity of Life - The left's pushing for late term abortions. I am PRO-LIFE, I feel it's time Roe V. Wade is revisited at the very least and hopefully reversed ideally - the science they used is now 50 years old - essentially in that period of time we've gone from slide rules and "green screen" computers to iPhones
    • Education standards and the push by the left for injection of CRT into curriculums.
    • The Opioid crisis affecting our families and children
    • An outright left wing assault on our freedoms - trying to take away our right to bear arms
    • Rising crime rates in our metropolitan areas - including Charlotte and the greater Charlotte area
    • Overburdened, underappreciated and under-resourced law enforcement agencies - who are also working with their hands strapped behind their backs[4]
 ”
—Nalini Joseph's campaign website (2022)[6]

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Lillian Joseph, Republican for U.S. House 2024, "Meet Lillian," accessed January 23, 2024
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 25, 2024 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "bio" defined multiple times with different content
    3. ↑ Facebook, "Nalini Joseph," accessed April 15, 2022
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    5. ↑ Lillian Joseph, Republican for U.S. House 2024, “Issues,” accessed January 23, 2024
    6. ↑ Vote Nalini Joseph, “Platform,” accessed April 12, 2022


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