Dan Bishop

2019 special election

On March 14, 2019, Bishop entered the 9th congressional district special election.^[25] He won the May 14 Republican primary with 47% of the vote.^[26][27] The election had been called after the results of the regular election were thrown out due to irregularities with absentee ballots in the district's eastern portion. The Republican nominee in that contest, Mark Harris, had defeated Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, the closest race in the district in decades. Much of the district's share of Mecklenburg County had not been represented by a Democrat since 1953, and the 9th has been in Republican hands without interruption since it was configured as a Charlotte-based district in 1963.

In the September 10 general election, Bishop defeated McCready, 50.7% to 48.7%. He won mainly by dominating the more rural areas of the district, as well as Union County, the district's largest whole county. The closeness of the race was remarkable given the 9th's heavy Republican bent on paper; it had a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+8.

2020 election

2022 election

2020 presidential election

In December 2020, Bishop was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Biden defeated^[30][31] Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.^[32][33][34]

On January 6, 2021, Bishop was one of 147 Republican lawmakers who objected to the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced an emergency recess of Congress.^[35][36] Later that month, he voted against a failed attempt to impeach Trump for his alleged role in inciting the mob to storm the Capitol.^[37]

Iraq

In June 2021, Bishop was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.^[38][39]

Israel

Bishop voted to provide Israel with support following 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.^[40][41]

Syria

In 2023, Bishop was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21 which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.^[42][43]

Defense

Bishop was among 19 House Republicans to vote against the final passage of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.^[44]

In July 2022, Bishop was the only House Republican to vote for an amendment that would have cut the proposed defense budget by $100 billion.^[45] On the same day, Bishop was one of 14 Republicans to vote for a separate amendment that would have removed a proposed $37 billion spending increase in the defense budget.^[46]

Immigration

Bishop voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.^[47][48]

Bishop voted against the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158),^[49] which effectively prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement from cooperating with the Department of Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of Unaccompanied Alien Children.^{[citation needed]}