The last election of 2018
Tomorrow the voters of North Carolina's 9th Congressional District will finally decide who will represent them in the US House of Representatives. The seat has remained empty since the 116th congress was seated in January. Republican Mark Harris had won the seat in 2018 by a narrow margin, however an investigation was immediately launched involving the devious tactic of "ballot harvesting." That's the scam prone practice of picking up ballot's to allegedly bring them to voters, rather than voters fulfilling their civic duty and actually going out to the polling stations. In this case, illegal ballot tampering was discovered and the North Carolina Board of Elections voted against certifying the election.
To make a long story short, an independent contractor working on behalf of Harris, Leslie McCrae Dowless was arrested & indicted on multiple charges. Election winner Mark Harris then removed himself from the election. Eventually, a special election was scheduled for Tuesday, September 10th (tomorrow night). The candidates are Republican Dan Bishop and Democrat Dan McCready. The district itself is a combination of suburban and rural areas stretching south and east from the city of Charlotte. Once reliably Republican the district has become more of a toss up, as evidenced by the closeness of the 2018 election results (approx a 900 vote difference). While Bishop's campaign has focused more on national issues, McCready has concentrated more on local concerns.
The two Dans
Dan Bishop (R)
Dan McCready (D)
Enter the President:
It was the last election of 2018 and maybe the first election of 2020. Tonight (Monday) President Trump heads to Fayetteville, a city in North Carolina's 9th district to rally voters on the eve of the vote. This election could be an indicator of whether political sentiments are as they were last November, when Democrats ended up flipping 40 House seats and winning control of the House. The President aims to keep the 9th District as MAGA country. In such a close race turnout will be crucial.
Can the President do it again?
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While the outcome of the general special election on September 10 will have no impact on the Democrats’ majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives it will likely be seen as a bellwether indicator of how North Carolina, a key battleground state, will vote in the 2020 presidential election.
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Well, apparently the GOP is going to disenfranchise its GOP voters by cancelling any GOP primary, so Trump doesn't have to face a challenge. And yes, the DNC does the exact same shit when the incumbent President is a Democrat. The parties have way too much control. If someone in the same party chooses to run against a standing President, the voters should have the chance to vote for that person.
Hope this isn't off topic - it is relevant to how North Carolina will vote in the 2020 presidential election.
A viable candidate would be required. Even the DNC will soon chop off all their candidates with less than 10% support.
True, but it's a lot harder to become a viable candidate when everyone knows the state GOP (or DNC - again, this isn't a partisan issue) won't allow a primary to be held no matter what.
If it was a Mitt Romney rather than a William Weld or Mark Sanford the GOP would have a primary. You need legitimate public support to challenge a sitting president. Let me recall the most notable example of something like that happening:
"Though President Lyndon B. Johnson had served during two presidential terms, the 22nd Amendment did not disqualify Johnson from running for another term, because he had only served 14 months following John F. Kennedy's assassination before being sworn in for his 'full' term in January 1965. As a result, it was widely assumed when 1968 began that President Johnson would be a Democratic candidate, and that he would have little trouble in winning the Democratic nomination.
Despite the growing opposition to Johnson's policies in Vietnam in both Congress and in the public, no prominent Democratic politician was prepared to run against a sitting President of his own party. Anti-war activists of the new " Dump Johnson movement " initially approached Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York , an outspoken critic of Johnson's policies with a large base of support, for a candidacy, but he declined to run."
I wonder if either one of these guys has "Vote for Dan!" as a campaign slogan.
And don't forget to give Dan Bishop your vote tomorrow!
Goodnight America!