North Carolina has completed its Special Elections in its 3rd and 9th Congressional Districts and Conservative Republicans have won both seats in the House of Representatives. The 3rd District was a race that was never in doubt in terms of Republican control but the 9th was advertised to be a referendum on President Trump by the Progressive media via CNN and MSNBC.
The Special Election for the 9th District was an election where both President Trump and Vice President Pence campaigned and held rallies on behalf of the Republican candidate Dan Bishop. Bishop is former North Carolina State Senator for the 39th District which in part is within the 9th Congressional District. Bishop actively campaigned as a "Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Wall" candidate facing Democrat Dan McCready.
McCready had run in the general election last Fall that was invalidated. McCready had narrowly lost in that race but had built up a formidable grassroots campaign over the course of 2018 that carried over into yesterdays election whereas Republican Dan Bishop secured his nomination last Spring through the primary process. Dan McCready campaigned as a "moderate" voice in the Democrat Party and ran on a "Country over Party" campaign but it appears as though many voters considered the ineffectiveness of the 116th Congress to lead on issues impacting their lives and sending McCready to Washington would simply result in more of the same.
The race tightened in the last few weeks of the race and Democrat support for McCready held in urban areas like Mecklenburg County where he garnered a twelve point advantage earning 36,986 votes. In contrast, Bishop earned 36,165 votes in Union County but managed to earn five thousand more votes(28,760) in Mecklenburg County than McCready did in Union (23,751). In the end this is where the difference (2%) was won.
Dan Bishop (R) 50.7
Dan McCready (D) 48.7
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