Democrats preached optimism on Wednesday after losing a special congressional el...
- Democrats preached optimism on Wednesday after losing a special congressional election in North Carolina, citing suburban gains and the close margin in a district President Donald Trump won by 12 percentage points as signs of strength going into 2020.
“There are still Blue Dog Democrats in the district who feel more and more that the party has left them with the super-liberal views,” said Phillip Stephens, chairman of the Republican Party in Robeson County, which sits in the 9th District.North Carolina is expected to be among a handful of battleground states in the November 2020 presidential election.
Bishop, a conservative state legislator, ran on a Trump platform and painted his opponent as a far-left liberal. McCready, a small-business owner and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, rarely mentioned Trump and portrayed himself as a moderate. President Barack Obama won Robeson County, a rural region once dominated by Democrats, in 2008 and 2012 before it went to Trump in 2016. In the 2018 election that was eventually overturned, McCready won the county by roughly 15 percentage points, but squeaked out just a 1-point victory in Tuesday’s contest, election records show.
Republicans must contend, however, with the fact that Democrats pulled off a 10-point swing in the district from 2016, said Eric Heberlig, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Those contests are expected to attract record spending by the campaigns and outside groups, political experts say.Democratic leaders in North Carolina and Washington said on Wednesday they would continue their outreach to rural voters, arguing their party’s agenda was designed to improve life for all Americans.
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