
State Sen. Dan Bishop won Tuesday’s Republican primary in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District do-over race.
Bishop, the author of North Carolina's controversial “bathroom bill” earlier this decade, beat back nine other Republican candidates and easily cleared a 30-percent runoff threshold to clinch the nomination outright.
He will face Democrat Dan McCready, who ran unopposed tonight, in the general election on Sept. 10.In the 2018 midterms, McCready finished 905 votes behind Republican Mark Harris. But Harris’ apparent victory was thrown out by the state board of elections amid charges Harris’ campaign consultant illegally collected absentee ballots, and a new election was ordered to fill the still-vacant seat this year.
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