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Choose Your Own Narrative: NC-09 Special Election Edition
So what we have is the last election of 2018, redone in 2019, that some folks desperately want to mean things for 2020.
There was an election last night. Actually, it was a do-over of an election in 2018 that needed a mulligan because of election fraud. So what we have is the last election of 2018, redone in 2019, that some folks desperately want to mean things for 2020. Which things should it mean to which people, is the question…
North Carolina state Sen. Dan Bishop will defeat Democrat Dan McCready in the North Carolina 9th District’s special congressional election, CNN projects, giving Republicans a narrow victory in the GOP-leaning district where President Donald Trump won by 12 points in 2016.
The race drew national attention as a potential 2020 bellwether, in a district that stretched from the Charlotte suburbs to the military town of Fayetteville. Trump and Vice President Mike
Pence both made eleventh hour trips to the district on Monday in an effort to bolster Bishop.
The “do-over” special election came after the state board of elections refused to certify the 2018 House race results in the district after fraud allegations, ordering a new election.
