Article snippet: CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican Dan Bishop edged out Democrat Dan McCready in the special election on Tuesday to represent North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, narrowly holding on to a House seat that has been in the GOP’s hands for nearly 60 years. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Bishop led McCready nearly 4,000 votes, or a little over 2 percent of ballots cast – a large enough margin to avoid the possibility of a recount.Bishop’s win brings to an end a political saga in the 9th District that has spanned more than two years. A regularly scheduled election in the district last year showed then-Republican candidate MORE leading McCready by a scant 905 votes. But state officials scrapped the results of that race earlier this year after uncovering a massive ballot fraud scheme allegedly operated by a contractor for Harris’s campaign. McCready even liked to remind supporters at his campaign rallies that former President Kennedy was in the White House the last time a Democrat represented the district.MORE, and the special election on Tuesday was seen by Republicans as a sort of testing ground for his political messaging heading into 2020.Indeed, Bishop tied much of his campaign to his support for Trump. On the trail, he often talked about the need to build the president’s long-promised wall on the U.S. southern border and accused McCready of backing “socialist” policies, a key talking point of Trump and Republicans in Washington. In a victory speech to su... Link to the full article to read more