Rigging North Carolina | The Re-do

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🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of Rigging North Carolina, Shaniqua McClendon is joined by Dan McCready. He shares what was going through his mind as the news of election fraud broke and a new election was called. We hear more about his platform, what he believes his opponent Dan Bishop stands for and what's at stake in this upcoming election.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Shinikuma Clinton and this is Raging North Carolina.
0:06.5	Over the past three episodes, we looked at the historic case of election fraud in North
0:10.1	Carolina's ninth district.
0:11.6	I got the chance to hear from individuals very close to the case and take a look at
0:15.2	the bigger picture of what's happening in the state.
0:17.7	In this episode, we'll hear from Dan McCready.
0:20.2	He was Mark Harris's opponent in 2018 and the Democratic candidate in a race being closely
0:25.2	watched as part of the blue wave.
0:27.1	But instead of flipping a district that had been held by Republicans for a long time,
0:30.9	Democratic Lost, because Leslie McCready-Dowellis took away his chance at a fair fight.
0:35.4	We spoke to Democratic to hear his perspective in all of this and why he chose to run again
0:39.8	in this upcoming redo in September.
0:44.7	What was the 2018 election like for you?
0:46.7	Oh gosh.
0:47.7	At this point, it seems like it was 100 years ago.
0:54.2	It was a long and tough battle.
0:55.8	It was one of the closest in the country.
0:57.5	This is not a district that's supposed to be competitive for a Democrat.
1:01.4	It's been since 1963 that a Democrat has held the ninth district in North Carolina.
1:05.7	It's a very tough district for a Democrat.
1:08.2	It went nearly 12 points for President Trump.
1:12.4	As we went into that 2018 midterm election, we're sitting exactly where we are right now
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