Steven Feldman (North Carolina)
Steven Feldman (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina's 10th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Feldman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Steven Feldman earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1980, an M.D. from Duke University in 1985, and a Ph.D. from Duke University in 1985.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: North Carolina's 10th Congressional District election, 2024
North Carolina's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)
North Carolina's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 10
Pat Harrigan defeated Ralph Scott Jr., Steven Feldman, and Todd Helm in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 10 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Pat Harrigan (R) | 57.5 | 233,814 |
 | Ralph Scott Jr. (D) | 38.2 | 155,383 | |
 | Steven Feldman (L)  | 2.9 | 11,614 | |
 | Todd Helm (Constitution Party) | 1.4 | 5,884 | |
| Total votes: 406,695 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darren Warren (Independent)
Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Ralph Scott Jr. advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 10.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 10
Pat Harrigan defeated Grey Mills Jr., Brooke McGowan, Charles Eller, and Diana Jimison in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 10 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Pat Harrigan | 41.2 | 36,028 |
 | Grey Mills Jr. | 38.9 | 34,000 | |
 | Brooke McGowan | 10.1 | 8,795 | |
 | Charles Eller | 6.9 | 6,076 | |
 | Diana Jimison | 2.9 | 2,535 | |
| Total votes: 87,434 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Steven Feldman advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 10.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Feldman in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Steven Feldman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Feldman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Feldman’s experiences in medicine have led him to try to see how others perceive things, leading to his book Compartments which had a profound influence on the Presbyterian Church Middle East Study Committee Report, Breaking Down the Walls.
Feldman hopes to bring a fresh perspective to Congress, to help people see their common goals and to work across divides to shrink government, reduce Federal debt, and let people live their lives as they want without hurting others.
Feldman has lived in North Carolina for over 40 years and trained at both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his wife Leora have been married for 40 years. They have two sons, one a sportswriter and the other a graduate student studying statistics.- We share many goals but may disagree on how what policies will best achieve those goals. We should work together, compromise, and not denigrate the motivations of others.
- The massive and growing national debt, increasing under both Democratic and Republican administrations, is a threat to our nation and the future of our children
- Our military should defend our borders and should not be used to tell other people how to live their lives.
2. I am passionately anti-war. War is immoral, counterproductive, and costly. We should defeat our enemies by making them our friends.
3. We need to be nice to and respectful of others. People of all political persuasions share similar goals and can work together to achieve them. We have good human beings across the political spectrum. We generally have similar goals, although we may disagree (sometimes passionately) on the best way to achieve those goals. Talmudic wisdom says we don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are; our backgrounds affect how we perceive things. All our politicians want to institute policies that they believe are good for American families. We can work together, recognizing our shared goals. We can carefully and respectfully try to understand and consider the positions of others, learn why they think what they do, compromise with each other when there are disagreements on policies, and try different approaches in different places.
4. The best way to influence others is to be a good role model, not to use government force. People should be free to do what they want as long as it doesn’t hurt others.
The issue of abortion may be the best example of this. I strongly believe the government should not regulate women’s control of their own bodies, and I know murder is wrong. I respect the beliefs of people who think that a fetus is a baby; I don’t have the certainty that the fetus is a baby or is not a baby. People who want to protect unborn babies do not want to control women’s bodies; they just want to prevent the murder of unborn babies; people who don’t want the government to impose on women’s control of their own bodies don’t want to kill babies; they just want women to have autonomy over their bodies. There’s a conflict between these two views. . Some compromise may be reasonable. Putting pro-Choice and pro-Life advocates in a room together to come up with a reasonable compromise would be my preference. Keeping government out of funding abortions seems a reasonable start to me. Making abortion illegal after a certain period of gestation seems reasonable to me. Having different rules in different states depending on the views of the people in those different places seems reasonable to me. I don’t think there’s any one correct answer to this problem.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 3, 2024
