Jennifer Balkcom
North Carolina’s 11th (NC - 11)
Updated: September 10, 2026
Overview
While Western North Carolinians face rising costs, and are still recovering from Hurricane Helene, Jennifer Balkcom has sold them out to enrich her corporate donors.
SUMMARY
Seven weeks before Election Day, voters in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville media market should see ads on broadcast TV and cable, and voters districtwide, especially white women over the age 55, should see ads on YouTube, search engines, and streaming and receive mail about how:
- Balkcom is part of the same failed leadership that left Western North Carolina behind after Hurricane Helene. Nearly two years in, we’ve received barely 16% of the funding from the federal government needed to recover and $100 million in already-approved disaster funds sat frozen for months. Balkcom was put in charge of Helene recovery but her committee hasn’t held a public meeting in over a year to hear from storm survivors in the hardest-hit parts.
- Balkcom has taken thousands of dollars from health insurance companies that have raised premiums and denied coverage North Carolinians need. And she voted repeatedly to raise health care costs on families, voting against bipartisan Medicaid expansion that now covers more than 730,000 North Carolinians. Balkcom even supports cuts to Medicaid that put rural hospitals at risk of closing and increase health care costs by thousands of dollars
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