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EMILYs List Endorses Slate of Candidates for the North Carolina General Assembly

April 19, 2022

For Immediate Release
April 19, 2022 

EMILY's List Endorses Slate of Candidates for the North Carolina General Assembly

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed 20 women for the North Carolina General Assembly. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is thrilled to endorse this slate of Democratic pro-choice women for the North Carolina General Assembly. These women have plans to improve North Carolina’s education system and fight for civil rights, economic justice, and reproductive freedom. As anti-choice attacks surge in state legislatures across the country, we are confident that these candidates will fight back against Republicans’ unnecessary and burdensome restrictions intended to obstruct abortion access and advance reproductive justice throughout the state. EMILYs List is proud to stand with this slate of pro-choice champions at this critical juncture for reproductive freedom in the United States.”

EMILY's List endorsed the following slate of challengers and incumbents:

  • Kandie Smith (NC-SD05)
  • Lisa Grafstein (NC-SD13)
  • Sydney Batch (NC-SD17)
  • Mary Wills Bode (NC-SD18)
  • Jamie DeMent Holcomb (NC-SD23)
  • Rachel Hunt (NC-SD42)
  • Julie Mayfield (NC-SD49)
  • Deb Butler (NC-HD18)
  • Amy Block DeLoach (NC-HD20)
  • Linda Cooper-Suggs (NC-HD24)
  • Rosa Gill (NC-HD33)
  • Julie Von Haefen (NC-HD36)
  • Kimberly Hardy (NC-HD43)
  • Aminah Ghaffar (NC-HD47)
  • Renée Price (NC-HD50)
  • Ashton Wheeler Clemmons (NC-HD57)
  • Sarah Crawford (NC-HD66)
  • Carla Catalán Day (NC-HD74)
  • Christy Clark (NC-HD98)
  • Lindsey Prather (NC-HD115)

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 159 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.