What Went Down During The May 17 Primary Elections
In North Carolina’s 11th District, Cawthorn is still trailing Edward by nearly 8 percentage points with 42 percent of the vote in.
Latest count in North Carolina’s 11th District GOP primary
Results of the Republican primary for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, as of 8:24 p.m. Eastern
| Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
|---|---|---|
| Chuck Edwards | 15,966 | 37.0 |
| Madison Cawthorn* | 12,408 | 28.7 |
| Matthew Burril | 3,879 | 9.0 |
| Rod Honeycutt | 2,882 | 6.7 |
| Bruce O’Connell | 2,838 | 6.6 |
| Wendy M. Nevarez | 2,454 | 5.7 |
| Michele V. Woodhouse | 2,117 | 4.9 |
| Kristie Sluder | 664 | 1.5 |
Only ten percent of the vote is reported, but Jeremy Shaffer looks like he’s pulling ahead in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania’s 17th District. He’s tried to position himself as more moderate on some issues, and has said he probably would have voted for Biden’s infrastructure bill, and has also said he thinks it should be up to the states to decide on abortion. His opponents are positioning themselves as more conservative, but have been trailing in fundraising and endorsements, and are behind in the early vote.
Like our colleagues said, there’s plenty of evidence that moderates win elections. But increasingly they’re getting discouraged and not running. This is especially the case among Republican women, as Danielle Thomsen, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, has written. So you have to ask if moderate (women) are opting out, who is opting in?