Robbie Mahrou

Neutral

The concept of liberty is important to me. My body, my choice runs through all of this. A pregnancy, including one from rape or one that threatens the mother's health. A patient who wants to try an experimental drug. An elderly person deciding how to face the end of life. Those decisions belong to the person living them, with their family and their doctor. I do not support late-term abortion unless the mother's life is at risk.

Disagree

Couples who struggle to have children often need it, and the process creates embryos that never get used. What happens to them belongs to the couple and their doctor. Same principle as the rest: my body, my choice. A law protecting every embryo from destruction makes IVF harder to get for the families who want children most.

I do not support late-term abortion unless the mother's life is at risk. Up to the point where the baby could survive outside the womb, elective abortion should be the woman's decision, made with her doctor, whatever the reason, including rape or incest. My body, my choice is the principle. The late-term limit is where I draw the line.

Neutral

This is health care matter. As long as government is subsidizing health care, it should not pick and choose which legal care gets covered. Clinics provide cancer screenings, birth control, and testing, and for many patients. With healthcare costs where they are, that hits the most vulnerable first and hardest. Federal money for abortion itself is already barred under current law.

Strongly Disagree

Using an 1873 anti-obscenity law to limit health care is perverse. Enforcing it now would override the states and put Washington between a woman and her doctor. Each state decides what care is legal.

Strongly Agree

They are essential. The playing field has been tilted to the point that we must reevaluate the impact of legislation that creates extreme disparity. Free enterprise works when the small business, the family farm, and the homeowner get the same fair shot as the big players.

Neutral

Raising taxes only gives an already bloated government a reason to expand instead of being responsible. I'd rather give working families a tax break large enough to all but eliminate their federal tax, and shift that burden to the ultra wealthy and large corporations.

Strongly Agree

Cutting spending and reprioritizing it is imperative. We have crumbling infrastructure across this country, a massive historic debt with nothing to show for it, and a Congress that hasn't balanced a budget since 2001 or finished its spending bills on time since 1996.

Audit the Pentagon. We need the most powerful military on earth. That doesn't have to mean the most flamboyantly financially irresponsible one. Audit the Fed. Under its dual mandate, interest on our debt hit a record while the middle class shrinks. Return education to the states, paying them directly without the federal bureaucracy. Hold insurers accountable to patients over shareholders, starting with the $76 billion extra Medicare pays them. Eliminate Redundancy

Neutral

Health care, banking, and essential services can't be refused to anyone. There's a fine line here, and it cuts both ways. If a baker can refuse a customer over his beliefs, a bank can refuse that baker a loan because he doesn't fit its ethos. You can't protect one and not the other.

I have always lived by the line often credited to St. Francis: preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words. I went to a Jesuit high school and a Baptist college. Religion is a private thing, and government should never take a side or try to influence it. Many of the Pilgrims came here to escape religious persecution, and Jefferson first wrote the phrase in a letter to Baptists. Separation of church and state should be honored in that spirit.

B, for now. "Basic health care" should not be a for-profit industry. Many medical advancements are funded by taxpayers through government research, and that return never makes its way back to the people who paid for it. Given the extent of our national debt, Medicare for All in its current form is unaffordable until we rein in costs and hold insurers accountable. As a country, our priorities need to align with our citizens.

Strongly Disagree

Unless it's completely anonymous, and these days that seems nearly impossible. Government needs to stay in its lane, and knowing my medical history is way outside it. Your medical history belongs to you and your doctor.

C, though defining American interests is complicated. The executive branch has taken too much power from Congress over how our military is used. That power should be returned to Congress, where the will of the people is better represented and the Constitution is respected. Regime change by military force rarely works. I'd rather lead with cheeseburgers and culture, setting an example and showing the world what American freedom looks like.

Strongly Agree

Our relationships with all nations matter, but we've tied our military so closely to Israel's that their wars become ours. That's the foreign entanglement the founders warned us about. I don't understand the extremes America goes to in funding Israel. The Israeli government's actions make the relationship one-sided, as it pushes beyond its borders with our weapons and our money, destabilizing a dangerous region. Especially when they offer universal health care to their citizens and we don't.

Strongly Agree

Extremism and terrorism of any kind are a threat, whether they come from overseas or from right here at home. Using religion to justify violence is grotesque. But millions of Muslim Americans are our neighbors, our friends, and fellow Americans. We need to go after the people planning violence. But how we respond matters too. Violence can create more violence. Intelligence and good law enforcement should come first, with measured force when it is truly necessary.

We need strong borders and an immigration system that works, one that doesn't get a partisan overhaul every four years. America is America because of its people and the opportunity it offers. That comes with a responsibility to the Americans here now and to the Americans still to come. Reagan said it best: the walls have doors, and the doors are open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. Come through the door, follow the law, and work.

Neutral

States' rights matter, and until there is broad immigration reform, it's hard for me to villainize cities for wanting to protect hardworking people. Sanctuary cities are a symptom of a broken system, and Washington should fix it. That protection should not extend to anyone who took the opportunity for granted and committed crimes here. They should be handed over.

Strongly Agree

Put education back in the hands of the states, with federal money paid directly to them without the federal bureaucracy. Parents, teachers, and local school boards know their kids better than Washington does. The money for special education and low-income schools should keep flowing, straight to the states.

Agree

Exposure to other cultures is important for a well-rounded education, and exchange programs and language teaching belong in our schools. Foreign money also comes with foreign influence. Every dollar should be fully disclosed, and no foreign government should be shaping what our kids are taught.

Neutral

This is a loaded question, and it's too complicated to answer with a soundbite. It doesn't even define a child. We need to let kids be kids and let them grow up. I feel lucky this wasn't an issue for my generation, and it pains me to see it tearing families and communities apart today.

Neutral

Government should take marriage out of the law entirely. Give every couple the same civil union with the same legal rights, and leave marriage to each faith to define for itself. That keeps government out of religion and religion out of government, which is what separation of church and state is supposed to mean.

Agape.... Religion has always been a part of me, whether I was practicing or not. I was born in Iran, but Islam was never pushed on me. My mother grew up Baptist, and she never pushed that on me either. We were encouraged to explore, and I've experienced Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, and Presbyterian churches, along with a Jesuit high school and a Baptist college. I find religion beautiful. I also despise how it can be used to suppress and control, from Islamic extremism to cults like the Branch Davidians. Any faith that uses scripture to strip away human rights has lost its way. I believe Jesus embodied what humanity should look like. What I can't stand is when opportunists in any church water down his message of love, agape.

Strongly Disagree

Photo ID is important, and we need secure elections. But we cannot let the quest for election integrity become voter suppression. We should be focused on bringing American citizens into the voting public, and arbitrary purges push them out. Keep the ID free and make it easy to get, especially for seniors and rural voters far from a DMV, so every eligible American can vote.

Agree

This question bundles five different issues into one button. On sports: biological men should not compete in women's sports, period. They should still be able to compete in some capacity, such as open or coed divisions. Athletics build teamwork and social awareness, and every kid deserves that. Sororities are private groups and should make their own rules. As for bathrooms, how would anyone enforce it? A guard checking genitalia at the mall restroom?

We need an energy mix that isn't subject to geopolitical shocks. You'd think we'd have learned that lesson by now. Nuclear, like Seabrook, is our most reliable backbone. Add renewables, storage, and generation built here.

No Never

No Never

Moderate

My views are grounded in the Constitution's intent and don't fit either party's list. I want strong borders, accountability for our debt and crumbling infrastructure, food independence, education back in the states, and an economy that rebuilds the middle class. I want government out of the exam room, insurers answering to patients, and a protected environment. Government should respect human dignity and stay in its lane: no surveillance, no police state.

Strongly Agree

States have sued Meta, Snap, and Roblox for failing to protect children on their platforms, and the penalties haven't deterred them from chasing more money. AI is making the danger faster and worse. Some markets have proven they can't police themselves because there's no incentive. The DOJ must make penalties swift and punitive enough to stop it, without a surveillance system reading every family's messages. And I'm appalled the Epstein files led to arrests in Britain and none here.

I support the Second Amendment as written, and I support constitutional carry. I also believe in background checks. Anyone convicted of a violent crime of any kind, including cruelty to animals, should never own a gun. They've already proven they lack the discipline and self-control that responsibility requires. But should I be able to put a missile silo on my property? I ponder that often. I think the answer is probably not.