Colin Campbell

in the primary and lost.

Alam is endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders and a number of other groups on the left that want to sort of steer this seat into a more leftward direction on issues like ICE and issues like Israel and Middle East policy will be interesting to watch.

There's been a lot of outside money around this race that seems to be mostly going toward Alam's side of things.

So this will be one to see whether

Democrats are willing to go against an incumbent who's been around for a while and try to get a new voice in there who's younger and who's more into the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.

But it does have the potential to go to run into the general election.

I think if Nida Alam wins this race, you're going to see Republicans really try to tie Roy Cooper's campaign in the U.S.

Senate race to her candidacy.

And he's among the many establishment Democrats who are endorsing incumbent Valerie Foushee in this race.

So that'll be one to watch if she does end up pulling off an upset here.

Yeah, the district that got redrawn in North Carolina is the first district up in the northeastern corner.

It was the last cycle, the only toss-up race in the entire state.

Now that's been redrawn to be a Republican-friendly seat, so we have no toss-up congressional races in this state.

Granted, Congressman Don Davis, the Democrat who's the incumbent up there, is still running for re-election.

He's hoping that having that vintage of incumbency plus maybe a good year for Democrats could maybe let him win a victory in a district that's really drawn to stack the odds against him at this point.

Yeah, so this is a state where the governor gets to appoint the majority or used to get to appoint the majority of the state board of elections that oversees elections administration.

That changed last year when the legislature decided to take that power from the governor, instead give it to the state auditor who, oh, by the way, just happened to become a Republican in the last election.

So now Republicans have a majority on the board that administers elections here in North Carolina.

And so we're going to see a lot more GOP-friendly elections.

decisions coming out of that board.