The sprawling, rural First Congressional District covers 22 counties, including Nash, Wayne, and Wilson. Not since 1883 has a Republican from North Carolina’s First District served in Congress. But the district is now rated as a toss up and will be North Carolina’s most competitive congressional district in the fall. NC-1 became a swing district...
A bustling crowd of candidate hopefuls stood in line at the Gov. James G. Martin Building at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh Monday as candidate filing got underway for the 2024 election cycle in North Carolina.
On Tuesday, Fred Von Canon officially announced his candidacy for North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Von Canon will likely be one of several Republicans vying for the opportunity to run against incumbent Congressman Don Davis, a Democrat. NC-1 is based in the northeastern part of the state and is composed of 19 North Carolina counties,...
Every new member of North Carolina's congressional delegation — Don Davis, D-NC1; Valerie Foushee, D-NC4; Chuck Edwards, R-NC11; Wiley Nickel, D-NC13; and Jeff Jackson, D-NC14 — is coming into office via the state Senate.
As the 2022 midterms near their end on Nov. 8, candidates in North Carolina’s congressional races are spending whatever resources they have to get an advantage over their rivals. And according to late-October financial reports, Democrat candidates raised more in the third quarter in every major race. Republicans, alternatively, have spent more in independent expenditures...
Much of the media's attention in North Carolina's 2022 U.S. congressional races has been on the open U.S. Senate seat and the N.C.-13 race, both of which appear to be tossups. But the N.C.-1 race in the state's rural northeast, between Republican Sandy Smith and Democrat state Sen. Don Davis, could also come down to the wire if Republicans have the "red-wave" election they are hoping for.
Three N.C. state senators running for Congress have received the social media equivalent of an endorsement of sorts from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi shows pictures of candidates running for the House on her Twitter feed, including Sens. Don Davis, of Greene County, Jeff Jackson, Mecklenburg, and Wiley Nickel, Wake, and encourages her followers...
Winning N.C. congressional primary candidates Chuck Edwards, Bo Hines, and Sandy Smith had good reasons to thank their campaign teams and voters Tuesday night. They also could have offered a note of thanks to the 2017 N.C. General Assembly. That was the year state lawmakers lowered the threshold for candidates to win a primary election.
A tale of two Sandys has come to an end as controversial candidate Sandy Smith has won over Sandy Roberson in North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District GOP primary race. With all 270 precincts reporting, Smith had 13,571 votes or 31% compared to Roberson’s 11,563 or 27%.
The 1st District was redrawn to be more competitive, and with a Republican wave-year predicted, whoever wins the GOP primary will find themselves in one of only two competitive congressional districts in the state. Republican Sandy Smith has her eye on the seat; she ran and lost to Butterfield in 2020 54% to 45%. She's running again in the primary, but she's not necessarily the front-runner. She has a well-funded primary challenger in Rocky Mount Mayor Sandy Roberson.
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