Five months ago, Democrats worried about keeping the few congressional seats they hold in North Carolina. Republican state lawmakers had just redrawn the state’s 14 districts — 10 of which are already held by the GOP — to give the party an advantage in an eleventh, Democrat-held district in the coming midterm elections.
But Democrats are starting to like their chances, as President Donald Trump’s approval ratings sag and inflation surges on skyrocketing gas prices — the result of a war with Iran that more than half of North Carolinians oppose.
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