Republicans Panic And Send Trump To North Carolina As They Are On The Verge Of Losing a seat

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BY JASON EASLEY

Republicans Panic And Send Trump To North Carolina As They Are On The Verge Of Losing A Seat They’ve Held Since 1963

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/09/republicans-panic-north-carolina-house.html

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Trump and the national Republican Party are spending millions and Trump is going to the state to save a House seat that has been held by Republicans since 1963.

Marine veteran and clean energy entrepreneur Democrat Dan McCready is running in a special election in North Carolina’s 9th District after the 2018 election was thrown out due to Republican cheating. Recent polling shows McCready leading his Republican opponent Dan Bishop 46%-42%.Republicans hold 34 seats that Trump carried by 11.9% or more, but this is the only one where they have spent $5.4 million and had Trump personally rush in on Election Eve to try to save the seat.

Republicans are desperate to keep this seat because a loss in a place like NC-09 is sure to set off another wave of House Republican retirements. There is a great deal of speculation about what this special election could forecast about 2020, but the more immediate problem for Republicans is that they are rushing for the exits in an effort to get out before Trump sinks in 2020.Republicans have made this special election about Trump in an effort to get out their vote.

If Democrats win the seat, it will be viewed as a referendum on this president, and turn the Republican retirement exodus into a stampede ahead of 2020.



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[gratuitous]

1. They should have lost in the general

It's beyond ridiculous that North Carolina has stalled on holding a do-over election (or simply declaring McCready the winner) to fill this seat for 10 months.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. they needed another election to refine their cheating

[sharedvalues]

12. YES. God*mn travesty that Dem has to run again after massive GOP cheating.

Ludicrous that they’re holding a do-over.

GOP cheated. Dem should get the seat because he would have won it without Republican cheating.

[LisaM]

15. Well, didn't the guy cheat in the primaries, too?

I think that was part of the problem. He should never have made it to the general election.

[sharedvalues]

18. After GOP cheatingin the general it should have been given to the Dem

Otherwise you create moral hazard- incentivizing cheating.

[uponit7771]

23. +1

[dweller]

2. Spanky is there to deliver

more flop sweat ...

✌🏼

[randr]

3. A seat in the House where they are lucky to hold a minority

[LAS14]

4. I would love to see more low ballot stories like this!! K & R !

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R

[cutroot]

7. Spending $5.4 million to win a job that only pays $174K!!

republicans are obviously drunk with foreign cash. And desperate.

[pandr32]

33. Looks like it!

The fact that they are desperate warms my heart.

[Iliyah]

8. Another hate rally . . .

He may focus on Bahama's thugs trying to come to America bullshit. I guess only POC are bad.

Oh wait, t-rump and cronies are even worse.

[Blue_true]

14. He will go down there and attack a veteran.

All Trump does is lie, expect several whoppers tonight. Maybe the Press will do it's job and call out the lies in real time.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Are they (the cheating repugs in NC) going to give us the lost years that they stole from us? nt

[barbtries]

11. i wish i was closer so i could be there protesting.

really hope it boomerangs. and that none of the nightly news show it.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. If Republicans win you know it was rigged and time to investigate fraud again

Crooked. You can't win a special election when you've been caught cheating and everyone hates you.

Keep that thought in mind.

[Stuart G]

16. When is the special election? story doesn't say

[Demovictory9]

17. I think it's this Tuesday but early voting already happened. The Dems came out in droves for early

voting. I hope that GOP voting on election day doesn't make up the difference.

[moose65]

20. There are actually two special elections on Tuesday

This one, which has gained all the attention (NC -9) and also one in NC-3 to replace Walter Jones, who passed away. While NC-9 has gotten all the press and the money, we also have a shot to pick up NC-3 as well. Wouldn’t it be delicious if the Dems picked up 2 NC house seats on the same night??

[Stuart G]

21. I sure hope we pick up 2 house seats in one night..That would be great!!!

[ooky]

39. I voted today in NC-3

NC-3 has indeed gotten lost in the media. The problem with NC-3 is that Jones voted frequently and often with the democrats. We really need a Thomas win there or its going to be almost like losing a seat.

[cannabis_flower]

42. Wasn't Walter Jones ...

the Freedom Fries guy?

[kentuck]

19. A lot of Republicans will be running scared...

...if the Republican loses in NC?

[warmfeet]

22. May they

lose every seat. Let the panic begin. Hope they choke on it.

[Takket]

24. let's go inside the rethug strategy session

"Hey everyone hates drumpf and we might lose this seat. what should we do???"

"Bring in drumpf!"

[MasonDreams]

25. They are too stupid to tie their shoes. They think trump is going to help not hurt?

[stopdiggin]

35. have to motivate the base

it's about the only card left to play. If the base (which is all he has left) doesn't come out BIG .. they get crushed. Not only in this district, but a great many others.

[still_one]

26. I really, really hope we take this one, and give them a reason to panic

[blm]

27. This is the race I begged DUers for Dem GOTV donations

last month. The district crosses three counties, but, shaking Dem votes out of Mecklenburg county is crucial.

[moose65]

29. Actually.....

This district spans 8 counties, including several with large African-American and Native American populations. Even part of Mecklenburg County (Charlotte) is in this district. The most populous part is the slice of Mecklenburg and ALL of Union County (which is Republican but changing as the suburbs of Charlotte creep out into it). The eastern counties are mostly rural - Anson, Scotland, Richmond (large African-American populations); Robeson (large Native American AND African American populations); and parts of Cumberland (where the gerrymanderers split Fayetteville) and Bladen (where all of the Republican cheating happened last year). It's definitely a winnable district and quite diverse. The area was hit by rain and storms from Hurricane Dorian last week, and the key is voter turnout in the eastern counties and Mecklenburg, and holding our own in Union. Keep fingers and toes crossed!!

[blm]

30. Yes, I added the Meck county Dem donation link to my posts

Because they have a formidable GOTV machine that knows how to use every dollar donated.

I didn’t mean to sound like I was excluding the smaller counties, just emphasizing the 3 big ones where Dems will find the most votes.

Fingers and toes crossed.

[questionseverything]

37. ty for your efforts!

[diva77]

28. did they send him there to sit on the central tabulator button?

If he can get NOAA to change the weather, then changing a spreadsheet doesn't even amount to a sneeze.

[questionseverything]

38. at least there is paper to count in nc

hopefully since they have caught the repubs cheating once they are watching the numbers carefully

[cstanleytech]

31. The blue wave was merely a ripple of the tsunami that's about to hit the Repugnants.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. I know times have changed

and i pre-apologize if my view doesn't reflect them entirely, but the wisdom of sending a New York politician into the South to GOTV is not evident to me.

[real Cannabis calm]

34. K&R

[Mc Mike]

36. Good idea, gopers. Rump will fix it.

He fixes everything.

[lame54]

41. He'll take full credit if they win

[Grins]

40. Think they are nervous now? Wait until next year...

...after the court-ordered new redistricting plan is in effect, destroying the gerrymandering the GOP has thrived on for a decade. Gonna’ get bloody!