Grassroots Candidate Interview: Ashley Bell(Congress NC District 10)

Ashley Bell is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 10th District as a Physician Associate, educator, and longtime healthcare professional who has spent her career working with patients across the state. With 15 years in medicine and 20 years in education, Ashley says her firsthand experience seeing patients struggle with insurance denials, medication costs, and access to care inspired her to run for office. Ashley’s platform centers on universal healthcare, affordability, and holding institutions accountable. She supports expanding healthcare coverage, ending prior authorization, protecting patients from insurance companies denying medically necessary care, and making healthcare less dependent on employment. She also wants to address rising costs, wages, childcare, and other financial pressures facing North Carolina families. Beyond healthcare, Ashley is focused on the impact of AI and data centers on North Carolina communities, including concerns about rising utility costs and the use of water and power. She also supports stronger government oversight, campaign finance reform, fully funded public education, reproductive rights, disability rights, veterans’ benefits, and protections for LGBTQ+ Americans. In this interview, Ashley discusses what inspired her to run for Congress, how she would use federal influence locally, and how North Carolina residents and lawmakers are responding to the current administration. She explains her first step toward fixing the state’s healthcare system, shares how she helped take down a predatory billion-dollar education company, and outlines her top priorities and day-one promise. She also talks about rebuilding trust with voters who feel disconnected from the political system, builds her dream presidential cabinet, weighs in on a hypothetical fight between Roy Cooper and John Thune, and reveals her favorite hidden gem in North Carolina. 📍 Topics include • Why Ashley Bell is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 10th District • Her healthcare experience and what she would do to fix the system • How North Carolina is responding to the current administration • Taking on a predatory billion-dollar education company • Her top three priorities and day-one promise • Rebuilding trust among disillusioned voters • Ashley’s dream presidential cabinet • Roy Cooper vs. John Thune in a fight • Favorite hidden gem in North Carolina 🎵 Full interview available now on Spotify and YouTube 📲 Stay connected with Ashley & support her campaign 🌐 Website & campaign info | ⁠⁠⁠ashleybellforcongress.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ 📸 Instagram I ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ashleybellforcongress⁠ 🎵TikTok | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ashleync10⁠ Follow along with our Podcast and interviews by hitting that follow/subscribe button and giving our videos a listen and a like! #northcarolina #politics #politcalnews #midterms #interview #candidate #democracy