{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nRichard Dansie is a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, running in the March 3, 2026 Republican primary.\n\nDansie's campaign, which he titled \"Courage Over Socialism,\" was organized around priorities including strengthening families, law and order, reducing pharmaceutical dependency in mental health treatment, ending welfare dependency, dismantling federal bureaucracy by returning power to states, and protecting children from ideology in schools. He drew on the economic philosophy of Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell in framing his positions on limited government and fiscal discipline.\n\n## Background and education\nDansie grew up in Utah. He served in the United States Army in Army intelligence before pursuing a civilian career.\n\n## Career\nAfter military service, Dansie built a career as a network security engineer working in enterprise-level cybersecurity. He also pursued entrepreneurship.\n\n## Sources\n- [1] [Richard Dansie for U.S. Senate \u2013 dansieforsenate.us](https://www.dansieforsenate.us/)\n","campaigns":[{"contest":"us_senate","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"general","state":"NC","title":"Us Senate"}],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Richard","fullname":"Richard Tracy Dansie","lastname":"Dansie","middlename":"Tracy","office_history":[{"campaigns":[{"contest":"us_senate","contest_title":"Us Senate","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":null,"office_key":"us_senate","office_title":"U.S. Senator","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"}],"county":null,"cycles":[{"general":{"contest":"us_senate","contest_title":"Us Senate","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":null,"office_key":"us_senate","office_title":"U.S. Senator","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"},"party":"REP","primary":null,"term":null,"year":2026}],"office_key":"us_senate","office_title":"U.S. Senator","state":"NC","terms":[]}],"terms":[],"token":"6c9c664c95214b08"}