NC House 11 race: Democratic candidates talk policy, electability in pitch to voters

NC House 11 race: Democratic candidates talk policy, electability in pitch to voters

Paul Moon, Asheville Citizen Times

Jan 18, 2020 at 2:58 PM

Former state Rep. Ray Rapp walked into a forum featuring Democratic candidates vying to represent Madison County in Congress feeling optimistic.For the first time since the five-term Democratic legislator served on the Republican-dominated redistricting committee in 2011, he held out hope the winner of his party’s primary could flip a red seat blue in November."It absolutely does," Rapp said when asked whether a new court-ordered map uniting all of Asheville and Buncombe County into the state’s 11th congressional district made the race more competitive. "Putting Buncombe back […]

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