Richard Hudson dossier →

• In-person town halls and direct constituent accessibility in NC-09 — and the directive to other Republicans to avoid them 50 days silent
  Expected position: As the representative of a district that includes Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, and significant veteran communities, and as NRCC Chairman responsible for maintaining the House GOP majority, Hudson would be expected to hold in-person town halls to engage constituents on the OBBB, Medicaid cuts, DOGE-related federal layoffs, and spending reductions affecting military families. Evidence of activity on adjacent topics: On March 4, 2025, Hudson told House Republicans during a closed-door meeting to stop holding in-person town halls, advising them to use tele-town halls and Facebook Live instead to avoid 'disruption from activists.' The Assembly NC reported that Hudson 'in effect asked Republicans to avoid the spectacle of booing and jeering.' When Hudson himself held a tele-town hall on April 22, 2025, CityView NC documented that of 11 questions addressed, all but one came from Cumberland or Hoke County, moderators prescreened questions, and Hudson repeatedly administered a telesurvey asking participants to press numbers for issue categories — reminiscent of 'a customer service hold loop.' Hudson only fielded one explicit question about Elon Musk's DOGE and refuted that Musk was responsible for firing thousands of federal employees. On April 10, 2025, Democrats held an in-person town hall in Hudson's district — and Hudson did not attend. Hudson's office maintained he was accessible via tele-town hall and district office appointments but did not schedule open-floor, in-person public forums during this period. Primary URL: https://www.theassemblync.com/news/politics/richard-hudson-republicans-townhalls/
• other candidates' committees
  Interested donors: Friends Of Community Oncology PAC, Huck PAC
  Friends Of Community Oncology PAC, Huck PAC (amounts: $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: other candidates' committees
• colleagues' leadership pacs
  Interested donors: Gridiron-PAC, Cmr Political Action Committee, Upper Hand Fund, Innovation PAC, Together Holding Our Majority PAC, In The Arena PAC
  Gridiron-PAC, Cmr Political Action Committee, Upper Hand Fund, Innovation PAC, Together Holding Our Majority PAC, In The Arena PAC (amounts: $6,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs
• party committees
  Interested donors: National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund
  National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund (amounts: $9,950 (2026)) — interest area: party committees
• corporate pacs, industry unlisted
  Interested donors: International Textile Group Inc. Good Government Committee, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Employee Political Action Committee (Ipsen Employee PAC), Catalent, Inc PAC, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation PAC, Alticor Political Action Committee (Altipac), Roche Diagnostics Corporation PAC, Swedish Match North America LLC PAC, Trinity Industries Employee Political Action Committee (Sf) Inc., United States Cellular Corporation PAC, Relx PAC, Lhc Group, Inc PAC, Calportland Company Political Action Committee (Cpcc-PAC), The Grant Thornton LLP Political Action Committee LLC, Windstream Holdings Ii, LLC PAC, Televisaunivision, Inc. Employee Political Action Committee, Vsp Holding Company Inc Political Action Committee, Motorsports Acceptance Corporation PAC (Speed PAC), Itg Holdings USA Inc. PAC (Aka Itg PAC)
  International Textile Group Inc. Good Government Committee, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Employee Political Action Committee (Ipsen Employee PAC), Catalent, Inc PAC, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation PAC, Alticor Political Action Committee (Altipac), Roche Diagnostics Corporation PAC, Swedish Match North America LLC PAC, Trinity Industries Employee Political Action Committee (Sf) Inc., United States Cellular Corporation PAC, Relx PAC, Lhc Group, Inc PAC, Calportland Company Political Action Committee (Cpcc-PAC), The Grant Thornton LLP Political Action Committee LLC, Windstream Holdings Ii, LLC PAC, Televisaunivision, Inc. Employee Political Action Committee, Vsp Holding Company Inc Political Action Committee, Motorsports Acceptance Corporation PAC (Speed PAC), Itg Holdings USA Inc. PAC (Aka Itg PAC) (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $6,000 (2024), $6,500 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $7,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $7,500 (2026)) — interest area: corporate pacs, industry unlisted
• other / unclassified
  Interested donors: Direct Selling Association PAC, Lincoln Club Of Orange County Federal PAC, Emergeortho Pa PAC, American Bakers Association American Bakers PAC, International Textile Group Inc. Good Government Committee, Kelley Drye & Warren PAC, Venable PAC (Ven-PAC), Specialty Equipment Market Association PAC, Alston & Bird PAC, National Council Of Textile Organizations Inc Political Action Committee, Fraternity & Sorority PAC, Labpac, Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PAC, Broker Action Coalition PAC (Bacpac) For Association Of Independent Mortgage Experts
  Direct Selling Association PAC, Lincoln Club Of Orange County Federal PAC, Emergeortho Pa PAC, American Bakers Association American Bakers PAC, International Textile Group Inc. Good Government Committee, Kelley Drye & Warren PAC, Venable PAC (Ven-PAC), Specialty Equipment Market Association PAC, Alston & Bird PAC, National Council Of Textile Organizations Inc Political Action Committee, Fraternity & Sorority PAC, Labpac, Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PAC, Broker Action Coalition PAC (Bacpac) For Association Of Independent Mortgage Experts (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $7,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $7,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $8,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $7,500 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: other / unclassified

• Various ↗ NOT_VOTING 2025-12-31
  Attendance Record — 4.7% Missed Votes (345 of 7,294 roll call votes, Jan 2013 - Dec 2025)
  why contradicted?

  [against_constituent] GovTrack reports Hudson missed 345 of 7,294 roll call votes (4.7%), 'much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving.' In 2020, the DCCC ran ads accusing Hudson of being 'AWOL' — missing a vote on troop pay raises. Hudson's campaign pushed back that he supported military pay increases. His poor attendance, combined with his position as Fort Bragg's congressman, made missed defense votes particularly vulnerable to political attack.
• H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
  One Big Beautiful Bill Act — On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment
  why contradicted?

  [against_constituent] Hudson's Yea vote (218-214) was his defining fiscal vote as NRCC Chairman. He warned defeat 'will have disastrous effects on America's fiscal trajectory' and framed the bill as restoring 'fiscal sanity' and 'slashing deficits by roughly $2 trillion.' The CBO projected the opposite — adding $3-4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. His 10.2% poverty-rate district faced significant Medicaid and SNAP cuts. As NRCC Chairman, his institutional role required him to be a chief promoter of the bill. His Pharma/Health Products donors ($885K) and Koch Industries ($75K) strongly supported the tax provisions. The AFL-CIO scored his vote against working people. He also voted Yea on first passage on May 22, 2025.

No documented broken promises on file.

• statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
  Hudson voted against the 2023 omnibus spending bill, calling it a 'boondoggle' and a 'monstrous spending spree,' yet in the same statement celebrated the $15.5 million of Fort Bragg funding within the bill — funding he and GOP senators had requested. The WRAL editorial noted he was 'happy to trash the legislation, vote to stop it and call it a boondoggle but gush on its help in his district.' Hudson requested at least $3.6 million in earmarks with Senators Burr and Tillis.
• statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
  Hudson's official press release claimed the OBBB 'slashes deficits by roughly $2 trillion' and restores 'fiscal sanity.' The CBO and independent analysts projected the bill would add $3-4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. A constituent letter in the Courier-Tribune called Hudson's claims 'enthusiastically misleading' and noted the framing about 'preventing the largest tax increase in American history' was factually incorrect.
• reversal SCORE 90
  Hudson claimed in 2021 that there was 'incontrovertible evidence of voter irregularity — if not outright fraud' and voted to reject electoral votes. By 2022, after redistricting made his district more competitive, he answered 'YES' to whether the 2020 election produced 'fair and legitimate results.' The constantcontact.com analysis noted: 'Either Hudson lied in 2021 when he said there was incontrovertible evidence of election fraud or he's lying now when he says the election produced fair and legitimate results.'
• position_evolution SCORE 60
  As NRCC Chairman, Hudson told fellow Republicans in August 2025 that avoiding in-person town halls was about avoiding 'paid progressive activists.' But his own town hall avoidance predated 2025 — the last confirmed in-person Galveston-style town hall on his website was March 2013, his first months in office. His instruction to his colleagues to stop holding in-person forums was consistent with his own long-standing practice of avoiding unscripted, open-floor constituent engagement.