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Mark Walker, a Republican, represented North Carolina's 6th Congressional District from 2015-2020. He is running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in 2022.

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Mark Walker
stated on July 19, 2021 in a tweet:

Says he worked to pass the 2018 farm bill “that helped farmers, invest(ed) in rural broadband, and added work requirements for able-bodied adults, Budd voted NO.”

By Paul Specht • August 3, 2021
Mark Walker
stated on January 22, 2021 in a tweet:

“President Biden is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 12, 2021
Mark Walker
stated on November 27, 2019 in a tweet:

Says the cartels are so bad in a Mexican border state that the U.S. government issued a ‘Do Not Travel’ warning -- the same warning it issued for Syria.

By Paul Specht • December 5, 2019
Mark Walker
stated on March 7, 2019 in an ad video:

"HR 1 is going to take your hard-earned tax dollars and millions more and send them to (a political candidate’s) campaign so (they) can put ads on TV."

By Bill McCarthy • March 26, 2019
Mark Walker
stated on January 9, 2019 in a tweet:

"The debate on securing our border can't be measured in partisan jabs. It has to be measured in the human toll caused by porous borders: 1/3 migrant women are sexually assaulted; 7/10 migrants are victims of violence; 20k migrant children were illegally smuggled last month."

By Bill McCarthy • January 21, 2019

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