2026
2026-03-31
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
Edwards explicitly disavowed any federal role in addressing Mission Hospital's patient-safety crisis in January 2024, then introduced legislation in March 2026 to dramatically expand federal CMS regulatory powers over the same hospital — a complete policy reversal framed by critics as election-year positioning.
2025
2025-07-03
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: position_evolution
Edwards blocked Medicaid expansion in the NC Senate for years, then supported it in 2022 citing federal incentives, then voted in 2025 to cut Medicaid by $900 billion via H.R. 1 — a sequence that undermines the premise of his 2022 stated conversion.
2024
2024-04-29
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: same_source_inconsistency
[auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Edwards was sanctioned by the House for violating franking rules by misusing taxpayer-funded communications for partisan attacks on Biden, while simultaneously positioning himself as a defender of rule-of-law principles.
What this view assembles
- Promises & violations — every documented commitment + each documented break, with primary sources.
- Contradiction pairs — fact-against-fact entries from the contradictions ledger; the "said" appears in its year, the "did" appears in its year.
- Vote-based analyses — for elected officials, every documented case where a vote diverged from a stated commitment.
- Entity events — major dated events recorded against the entity (acquisitions, indictments, appointments, etc.).
This view DOES NOT auto-detect new drift candidates. It surfaces records that are already on file. If you spot an undocumented inversion, the curator workflow (admin) is where to add it.
