GOP holds North Carolina House seat, easing fears of Democratic momentum
But his narrow victory did not erase questions about whether President Trump and his party’s congressional candidates face troubling headwinds approaching 2020.
Tuesday’s election had been seen as too close to call, in itself an ominous sign for Republicans. Trump won the district by 11 percentage points in 2016, and a loss would have been a worrisome preface to the party’s campaigns next year. Republicans have held the seat since 1963.Special elections generally attract such low turnout that their results aren’t predictive of future general elections.
Since Trump became president, voters in such communities — particularly women and college-educated voters — have abandoned him in droves over his conservative social policies and vitriolic rhetoric on immigration and race.Along with a GOP victory in a second vacant House district in North Carolina, Republicans pared the Democratic majority in the House to 235-199, plus one independent.
“Bishop, his policies follow my convictions. After hearing Bishop, knowing that he’s for the 2nd Amendment and he’s against illegal immigration,” said Susie Sisk, 73, another retiree from Mint Hill. The registered Democrat said she voted for Bishop. That seat has been vacant since February, when 13-term GOP Rep. Walter Jones died. Trump won it handily in 2016.
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