If you weren’t looking closely, you might not have noticed that Republicans won two North Carolina congressional races last Tuesday, not just one.
The media featured the 9th District race in which Dan Bishop defeated Dan McCready by 50.7 percent to 48.7 percent. They ignored the 3rd District, where state Rep. Greg Murphy swamped Democrat Allen Thomas with nearly 60 percent of the vote to fill the seat of the late Rep. Walter Jones, who died in February.
Mentioning the landslide Republican victory in the 3rd would have tarnished the media’s main point, which was the closeness of the race in the 9th, where President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Mr. Bishop the day before.
So, the fake news narrative is that “Trump is in trouble.” It’s a done deal, folks. Time to lay out some early money in Vegas for whomever the Democrats nominate in 2020.
Reporting on the landslide Republican win in the 3rd District would have spoiled this happy narrative. By the way, Dr. Murphy is the only M.D. in the North Carolina legislature, which makes him even more worthy of being ignored by the media at a time when Democrats are calling for socialist health care.
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