Pat Harrigan was born on the West Coast and spent time in both San Diego and Wyoming. He attended West Point, where he earned a degree in Nuclear Engineering. Pat is married to his wife Rocky, and together they have two daughters, Reagan and McKinley. They currently reside in North Carolina.

Pat Harrigan is a former U.S. Army Infantry Platoon Leader and Green Beret. After military service, he co-founded a small firearms business that expanded into a contract-manufacturing company. Pat and his partners later acquired a 120,000 square foot facility to manufacture American made defense products in Western North Carolina.

As of February 12, 2024, Pat Harrigan’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Believes strong families stem from a robust economy without inflation or uncertainty, achieved by reducing government spending and intervention, allowing Americans to control their finances and make independent decisions.

Believes strong families stem from a robust economy without inflation and reduced government spending and intervention. 

- Believes strong families stem from a robust economy without inflation and reduced government spending and intervention. 

Economy

Believes America faces an economic and national security crisis due to energy dependence, advocating for immediate, diverse domestic energy production, including oil, gas, nuclear, and renewables, to achieve energy independence.

Supports diverse domestic energy production, including oil, gas, nuclear, and renewables, to achieve energy independence.

- Supports diverse domestic energy production, including oil, gas, nuclear, and renewables, to achieve energy independence.

Energy & the Environment

As of June 14, 2024, Pat Harrigan’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Healthcare

Supports voter ID requirements in North Carolina, ensuring secure, trusted elections, and advocates for laws that simplify voting, prevent fraud, and empower local/state governance.

Supports voter ID requirements in North Carolina, ensuring secure, trusted elections, and advocates for laws that simplify voting and prevent fraud. 

- Supports voter ID requirements in North Carolina, ensuring secure, trusted elections, and advocates for laws that simplify voting and prevent fraud. 

Voting & Elections

Believes in prioritizing citizen safety, opposes the perceived neglect by Biden and the left, supports strong law enforcement against crime and illegal immigration, and rejects the introduction of casinos due to potential crime increase.

Supports strong law enforcement against crime and illegal immigration, and rejects the introduction of casinos due to potential crime increase.

Supports the Second Amendment, advocates for Constitutional carry, and opposes red flag laws, emphasizing firearms as integral to American identity and essential for hunting, self-defense, and securing freedoms.

- Supports strong law enforcement against crime and illegal immigration, and rejects the introduction of casinos due to potential crime increase.
- Supports the Second Amendment, advocates for Constitutional carry, and opposes red flag laws, emphasizing firearms as integral to American identity and essential for hunting, self-defense, and securing freedoms.

Public Safety

Believes education is the greatest gift; opposes current public school shortcomings like falling test scores and ideological bias; supports school-choice and urgent state-level public school reforms to prioritize children's futures.

The candidate's website says, "We strongly encourage parents and guardians to regularly monitor and supervise their children’s online activities. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13."

Said, "We have a duty to provide the next generation of Americans more opportunity than we have been endowed... Our best days are yet to come, because Pat refuses to hand his children—or your children— anything less."

Education

Believes in strong U.S. leadership globally, views Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal as a failure, supports military investment, and advocates for America's reassertion as a leading superpower to counter national and international security threats.

Believes that President Biden's open border policy endangers national security by enabling crime and terrorism, and advocates immediate border enforcement and support for Border Patrol agents to uphold federal law and protect the country.

- Believes in strong U.S. leadership globally, views Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal as a failure, supports military investment, and advocates for America's reassertion as a leading superpower to counter national and international security threats.
- Believes that President Biden's open border policy endangers national security by enabling crime and terrorism, and advocates immediate border enforcement and support for Border Patrol agents to uphold federal law and protect the country.

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- Your U.S. Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. North Carolina currently has 14 U.S. Representatives.
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As of June 20, 2024, Pat Harrigan’s website did not contain information on this issue.