Republican Dan Bishop Wins North Carolina Congressional Seat With Trump’s Support Do-over vote stemming from ballot tampering seen as bellwether for the 2020 election By Valerie Bauerlein
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Voters in a conservative congressional district picked President Trump ally Republican Dan Bishop in Tuesday’s special election instead of a Democrat who had promised to seek compromise in Washington.
Mr. Bishop, a 55-year-old state senator who campaigned on a promise to be in lockstep with Mr. Trump, defeated Democrat Dan McCready in the Ninth Congressional District based in the suburbs of Charlotte.
In his victory speech, Mr. Bishop said he would go to Washington to protect the border, fight Democrats in the House and support the Trump agenda. “Under this president, America is great again,” he said.
Mr. McCready, a 36-year-old veteran and entrepreneur, had campaigned as a centrist, emphasizing his service as a Marine in the Iraq war and pledging to put country over party.
Mr. McCready said late Tuesday he was proud that the campaign came so close to carrying a reliably Republican district. “We may not have won this campaign, but that does not mean that we were wrong,” he said. “As long as there are people who thrive off our division, there is still work to be done,” he said.
The GOP victory in the rare do-over election was a boon to Mr. Trump, who tweeted his support repeatedly for Mr. Bishop and campaigned for him Monday in Fayetteville, a military town at the far eastern edges of the district. Vice President Mike Pence came to the state for Mr. Bishop on Monday in Union County, a GOP stronghold. Mr. Trump won the district by 12 percentage points in 2016.
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