NC Special House District Elections updates, Cuz I know you’ve been holding your breath.
Both of our Dem candidates may seem conservative by DK standards.
Don’t care.
This is NC.
Half a loaf beats no loaf of bread at all, unless you like being hungry.
Feel free to eat all the free croissants you want in Blue States. We’re purple, y’all, and face the facts on the ground.
NC09 — A Pink, with Blue Spots, District
State Sen. Dan Bishop topped nine other Republican candidates seeking the 9th Congressional District nomination on Tuesday, winning almost half of the ballots cast in an extremely low turnout election that drew less than 10% of the eligible voters. He will face Democrat Dan McCready, as well as Libertarian and Green candidates, on Sept. 10.
The vote count last November showed McCready, a former Marine and Harvard MBA, narrowly losing to Republican Mark Harris. But then, an investigation found Harris ignored warnings and paid a political operative who collected mail-in ballots. Harris opted not to run again...
In 2016, Bishop sponsored House Bill 2, the law that
voided a Charlotte ordinance expanding LGBT rights and prevented similar anti-discrimination rules anywhere else in the state. HB2 was nicknamed the "bathroom bill" because it also directed transgender people to use public bathrooms and showers that matched their birth sex. The measure made waves nationally and prompted boycotts by entertainers, governments and some businesses thinking about moving jobs to North Carolina...
McCready ran a solar-energy financing fund before starting his run for Congress two years ago. He's built up his name recognition over the extended campaign and had almost $1.6 million in cash on hand as of May 2, according to Federal Election Commission reports. But McCready will be swimming upstream in a congressional district that has been in GOP hands since 1963 and which Trump won by 12 percentage points in 2016. The district stretches from suburban Charlotte to suburban Fayetteville along the South Carolina border.
www.usatoday.com/…
(Bolding is mine. McCready’s best shot is if disgusted Rs stay home.)
Ya Think?
The GOP's brand has suffered in the wake of the much-publicized investigation into Harris's campaign, followed last month by federal charges accusing the state party's chairman of working with a big-money donor to try bribing North Carolina's top insurance regulator.
"Folks actually do bring this up," candidate Matthrew Ridenhour, a former county commissioner from Charlotte, said during a debate last week. "What's going on with the GOP? What happened to your GOP chairman? What's going on there with these donors? Are you involved in that? Did you take any money from that donor? I did not. But that's a question that comes up often." www.cbsnews.com/...
Best potential toss up we’ve got in NC this year.
It’s definitely a Republican-leaning district, but McCready has the profile of a Democrat — a “country over party” military vet who wants to clean up politics while protecting the social safety net — who can compete in such a place. He came within 900 votes of beating Harris in a district that Trump had won by 12 points in 2016.
Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up. It’s a chance for Democrats to build their majority a little bigger in Trump Country — and a chance for Republicans to try to recover from the embarrassment of Harris’s overturned win. www.vox.com/...
To Support Dem Dan McCready—
Called to Serve
Dan McCready is a Marine Corps veteran, small business owner, husband, and father of four. Dan grew up going to Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools and camping in the North Carolina foothills on his way to becoming an Eagle Scout. Dan is now running for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in North Carolina’s 9th District…
Dan returned home to start a family and a business. After graduating from Harvard Business School and working at McKinsey & Company, he started a small business in Charlotte with another Marine and helped build dozens of solar farms
throughout North Carolina that put 700 North Carolinians to work in good-paying jobs. Dan played a key role in North Carolina becoming number two nationally for solar power, and today North Carolina supports over 30,000 clean energy jobs.
www.danmccready.com
Key Issues
- Defending our Sacred Right to Vote
- Cleaning up our Broken Politics
- Standing up for our Seniors
- Creating Good Jobs from Cities to Small Towns
- Achieving Affordable and Accessible Healthcare
- Fixing the Budget, Taxes, and Regulation
- Investing in Teachers and Education
- Protecting our Veterans
- Fighting for the Lumbee Tribe
- Defending Women’s Rights
- Protecting North Carolina’s Air and Water
- Keeping our Families Safe
- Keeping Americans Safe
- Securing our Border while Protecting our Values
- Protecting the Rights of All Americans
Again— www.danmccready.com
NC03 — Very Red District
With all precincts in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District reporting unofficial results, urologist and state Rep. Greg Murphy topped the 17-candidate Republican field with 22.5% of the vote — short of the 30-percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off. Pediatrician Joan Perry, a first-time candidate, was second at 15.4 %....Perry, who received outside support from the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List and Winning for Women, said she had widespread support throughout the sprawling district that includes parts or all of 17 counties...
The winner of the primary runoff between Murphy and Perry on July 9 will join Democratic primary winner Allen Thomas... general election Sept. 10...Former Greenville mayor Thomas, who most recently served as executive director of the North Carolina Global TransPark, won the Democratic nomination with 50 percent of the vote. (Out of 6 Dems, that’s not bad. But it’s a very Red district. Emphasis mine)...
President Donald Trump won the district by nearly 24 percentage points in 2016. He won North Carolina by 3.6 percentage points.
www.newsobserver.com/…
To support Dem Allen Thomas—
Allen Thomas has a long history of service in eastern North Carolina including extensive experience in both the public and private sector.
Allen Thomas is a native of Craven County, where his family has lived and farmed for generations. Allen spent summers swimming in the Swift Creek and working in the tobacco fields, in a community where he learned the value of hard work, service, and the power of prayer.
www.allenthomascongress.com
Goals:
- Support economic and infrastructure development to ensure our region grows
- Ensure our rural and coastal communities have the resources to rebuild and recover from hurricane damage, work on future disaster prevention and oppose offshore drilling on our coast
- Provide our district’s large military population with the resources and services they need and deserve
- Expand access to quality education so our children have a real shot to stay in the area and succeed