Such as the one in North Carolina that Walter Jones gave up due to health reasons earlier this year. He was first elected to Congress in 1995 and easily re-elected 11 times.
‘Bigger Than a Party of Old White Men’: G.O.P. Women Seek to Replenish House Ranks. (The New York Times, 5/16/2019)
Still reeling from a monumental step backward — one in no small part because of women’s antipathy to President Trump — Republican women are trying to seize the first opportunity they have to begin righting their political ship in a special election in eastern North Carolina.Still reeling from a monumental step backward — one in no small part because of women’s antipathy to President Trump — Republican women are trying to seize the first opportunity they have to begin righting their political ship in a special election in eastern North Carolina.
Advocacy groups and female lawmakers desperate to elect more Republican women to the House are rallying behind Joan Perry, a pediatrician and political novice who in late April finished second among 17 candidates to advance to a July runoff with Greg Murphy.
Here's how the top 6 finished.
Source: Ballotpedia
Of the 17 candidates, 14 were men and 3 were women, with the men collecting 78.9% of the vote.
Voters in coastal North Carolina might not be ready to elect a woman to Congress.
No comments:
Post a Comment