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    Republicans go two-for-two in North Carolina elections

    Sep 11, 2019 4 minutes

    Conservative Republican Dan Bishop won a special election for an open House seat in North Carolina, averting a demoralizing Democratic capture of a district the GOP has held for nearly six decades. But his narrow victory didn't erase questions about whether President Donald Trump and his party's congressional candidates face troubling headwinds approaching 2020.

    Mr. Bishop, a state senator best known for a North Carolina law dictating which public bathrooms transgender people can use, defeated centrist Democrat Dan McCready on Tuesday. Mr. Bishop tied himself tightly to Mr. Trump, who staged an election eve rally for him in the district, and Tuesday's voting seemed

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