Posted on 06/07/2016 5:19:18 PM PDT by RightGeek
Raleigh, N.C. — Rep. Renee Ellmers is poised to become the first Republican in Congress to lose their seat in a primary this year.
As the polls closed across North Carolina at the end of an unusual June primary, Ellmers, the nominal incumbent in the 2d Congressional District, trailed both her challengers. Early returns strongly suggest U.S. Rep. George Holding is poised to win the seat.
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With 62 of the district's 158 precincts reporting, Holding held 55 percent of the vote, easily outpacing his competitors with the support of Wake County. If the trend in early returns hold, Ellmers will place third among the three candidates.
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Did she go RINO in Washington BTW?
She was bad on immigration.
Pretty amazing one would think Brannon would have watered down Holdings chances in favor of Elmers. Instead she’s getting smoked by both and can wind up in third place. She gonna have to sneak into DC on her own dime vs taxpayers to see Mr McCarthy...
Elmers was a Cheap Labor Express stooge who deserved to be Cantorized.
I hope Holding is better, I don’t know anything about him.
Per the article: “Outside groups such as the Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity have thrown their weight behind Holding”
I was pleased at the thought of Ellmers being ousted until I read the article.
Yeah, that’s not good news.
Holding is not a *politician* so to speak.
IIRC he was/is a lawyer, disgusted with it all, and decided to see about doing it himself. Like someone Else!
Greg Brannon seems to be a very good guy — medical dr. 7 kids.
Ran twice already, trying to unseat Sen useless Burr.
Holding got a 100% Conservative rating from the ACU in 2015 in his adjacent district. Ellmers got a paltry 71%, making her the most liberal RINO from NC.
Ellmers apparently in 3rd place in her race with Holding, who has a commanding lead.
FYI The district that was Holding’s has 17 candidates going for it !
How’s Holding on amnesty?
You mean the district that is numbered the same as Holding’s old district; the new NC-13 is on the other side of the state.
Excellent, Holding won with 53%, Elmers (23.6%) barely edged out Brannon for 2nd place. VERY gratifying result.
In other NC results
In CD 9 incumbent Robert Pittenger is the apparent winner by just 102 votes in a 3 way race, the 3rd place finisher was only 1000 votes behind. This one wasn’t even on my radar, I would surmise he did so poorly because much of his district is new territory for him. The (apparent) runner up was Pastor Mark Harris, who ran for the Senate in 2014 and placed third in the primary.
In the new CD 13, the GOP nomination was won by Gun Range Owner Ted Budd with just 20% of the vote (must be near the record, one would think), which was nearly double what that second place finisher, State Rep. John Blust, got. There were 16! candidates, including Vernon Robinson, who placed 10th with 3%. No runoff, Budd will win in November.
In CD-3, RINO who is mistakenly called very conservative far too often, Walter Jones, won renomination by a huge margin.
For the rats in CD-12, Congresswoman Alma Adams easily won renomination with 42%, 29% for her nearest foe.
She didn’t forget, she didn’t care. She used the tea party, sadly she isn’t the only one to do so.
Here's the "ideas" page of his campaign website:
http://georgeholdingforcongress.com/ideas/
He has no ideas about immigration. Hmm.
He’s got a C+ from Numbers USA.
Not failing but room to improve.
Robert Pittinger nearly lost mainly because his real estate firm has been accused of enterprise corruption. The FBI and IRS are looking into the matter.
Great news with Holding’s victory. Even better that a gun range owner (Ted Budd) is going to be a member of Congress. He’ll be an important voice on 2nd. Amendment issues.
BTW, those moonbats at Daily Kos finally got around to computing 2012 presidential data (the one thing for which they are any good) for the new NC congressional districts, including for the redrawn NC-13 (the most marginal district in the state). We already knew that McCain had gotten 51.2% in 2008 within the lines of the redrawn NC-13, and that Romney must have done a couple of points better in 2012, but we now have the actual Romney numbers: 53.4%.
Here are the GOP presidential numbers for each redrawn CD for both 2008 and 2012:
District 2012 2008
NC-01 31.4% 32.2%
NC-02 56.5% 54.3%
NC-03 59.0% 56.8%
NC-04 34.6% 33.2%
NC-05 57.2% 54.2%
NC-06 56.4% 53.8%
NC-07 56.4% 54.6%
NC-08 55.2% 53.9%
NC-09 55.8% 54.0%
NC-10 59.1% 57.4%
NC-11 60.4% 57.1%
NC-12 31.6% 31.3%
NC-13 53.4% 51.2%
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