Republicans Lost a Key Advantage In North Carolina

The following post for members is by G. Elliott Morris of The Crosstab.

For the first time in 2018, an incumbent U.S. House Representative has been ousted by a primary challenger. Republican U.S. House Rep. from North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District Robert Pittenger lost his primary bid to pastor Mark Harris by 2 points on last week, arguably the biggest development in a series of contests that evening besides (maybe) West Virginians not nominating a man who called Mitch McConnell “Cocaine Mitch.”