...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...’s reelection prospects and Republican chances of retaking the House in 2020.
Republican contender Dan Bishop, a conservative state senator, was hoping a pair of visits Monday to the GOP-leaning district by both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence would boost him to victory over Democrat Dan McCready. At a rally in a Fayetteville arena, Trump told a MAGA-hat-wearing crowd that the vote was a chance for them to send a message to "the America-hating left."
Bishop’s conservative credentials include authorship of the state’s 2016 law that dictated which public bathrooms transgender people could use. The law was repealed after it prompted a national outcry and boycotts that The News Agency that Dare Not be Named estimated cost North Carolina $3.7 billion.
McCready, a former Marine turned financier of solar energy projects, was banking on the district’s suburban moderates to carry him over the top. McCready, a moderate, was already a familiar name in the district: He narrowly trailed in an election for the seat last November that was later invalidated after evidence surfaced of vote tampering.