Don Davis NC-01

Current Position: State Senator of District 5
Affiliation: Democrat
District:   many rural areas of northeastern North Carolina, among the state’s most economically poor, as well as outer exurbs of urbanized Research Triangle. It contains towns and cities such as Greenville, Rocky Mount, Wilson, Goldsboro, Henderson, and Roanoke Rapids.
Upcoming Election: Reeelected to US House in 2024

Elected mayor of Snow Hill in 2001, Davis also chaired North Carolina’s 1st congressional district Democratic Party. He represented the 5th district in the North Carolina Senate from 2013 to 2023. Davis was first elected to the post in 2008, representing Pitt, Wayne, and Greene counties. He was defeated for reelection in 2010, but ran and won a Senate seat for the newly redrawn 5th district in the 2012 election.

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Valerie Foushee NC-04

Current Position: US Representative for District 4 from 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Positions: North Carolina Senate 23rd district from 2013 to 2023; North Carolina House of Representatives 50th district from 2013 to 2013
District: central region of the state. The district includes all of Alamance County, Durham County, Granville County, Orange County, and Person County, as well as a portion of Caswell County.    
Upcoming Election:

Valerie worked as an administrator for the Chapel Hill police department and served 25 years as a local and state elected official. She went from serving on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board, to being the first African American woman elected to chair the Orange County Board of Commissioners, to serving in the North Carolina State House and the North Carolina State Senate.

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Wiley Nickel NC-13

Current Position: 2023 US Representative for District 13
Affiliation: Democrat
District:   a new map in which the 13th district included Johnston County and parts of Harnett, Wake, and Wayne Counties in the Raleigh area.
Upcoming Election: Lost his seat in the 2024 election

Nickel worked for Vice President Al Gore from 1996 to 2001 as a member of his national advance staff. He is also a member of Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

Nickel later worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the White House national advance staff from 2008 until 2012. He is a member of the Obama Alumni Association and was part of Obama’s first wave of political endorsements in 2018. Obama endorsed six candidates in North Carolina, including Nickel, in August 2018.

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2022 NC 01 – US House Race

The incumbent is Democrat G. K. Butterfield, who was re-elected with 54.2% of the vote in 2020.

The 1st district includes Vance, Warren, Franklin, Halifax, Northampton, Nash, Wilson, Edgecombe, Greene, Martin, Bertie, Hertford, Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Washington, and Tyrell counties. It also includes the majority of Pitt County.

Butterfield is retiring. Don Davis is the Democratic candidate and Sandy Smith is the Republican candidate.

 

Source: Wikipedia

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Don Davis

Current Position: State Senator of District 5
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 US Representative for District 1

Donald G. Davis (born August 29, 1971) is an American educator and politician. He currently represents the 5th senate district in the North Carolina Senate. Davis was first elected to the post in 2008, representing Pitt, Wayne, and Greene counties. He was defeated for re-election in 2010, but ran and won a Senate seat for the newly redrawn 5th District in the 2012 election.

He is the Democratic nominee in the 2022 election for North Carolina’s 1st congressional district.

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Sandy Smith

Current Position: Business Executive
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Representative for District 1

Sandy is a successful business executive who has started businesses, created jobs, and worked her way up the hard way. The high energy, can-do attitude Sandy brings is exactly what’s needed in D.C. to drain the swamp and make Congress work for the people of North Carolina.

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2022 NC 13 – US House Race

Due to redistricting after the 2020 census, this is a new district with no incumbent.

The 13th district includes all of Johnston County, the southern half of Wake County, the western half of Wayne County, and the eastern half of Harnett County.

Source: Wikipedia

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Wiley Nickel

Current Position: US Senator
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 US Representative for District 13

George Wiley Nickel III (born November 23, 1975) is an American attorney and Democratic politician serving as a member of the North Carolina Senate from the 16th district.

He won the 2022 Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district.

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Bo Hines

Current Position: political staffer of District 16 since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Representative for District 13

Robert “Bo” Hines (born August 29, 1995) is an American former college football player and politician from North Carolina. He played college football for the NC State Wolfpack and Yale Bulldogs.

He is the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district.

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