Excellent, Holding won with 53%, Elmers (23.6%) barely edged out Brannon for 2nd place. VERY gratifying result.
In other NC results
In CD 9 incumbent Robert Pittenger is the apparent winner by just 102 votes in a 3 way race, the 3rd place finisher was only 1000 votes behind. This one wasn’t even on my radar, I would surmise he did so poorly because much of his district is new territory for him. The (apparent) runner up was Pastor Mark Harris, who ran for the Senate in 2014 and placed third in the primary.
In the new CD 13, the GOP nomination was won by Gun Range Owner Ted Budd with just 20% of the vote (must be near the record, one would think), which was nearly double what that second place finisher, State Rep. John Blust, got. There were 16! candidates, including Vernon Robinson, who placed 10th with 3%. No runoff, Budd will win in November.
In CD-3, RINO who is mistakenly called very conservative far too often, Walter Jones, won renomination by a huge margin.
For the rats in CD-12, Congresswoman Alma Adams easily won renomination with 42%, 29% for her nearest foe.
Robert Pittinger nearly lost mainly because his real estate firm has been accused of enterprise corruption. The FBI and IRS are looking into the matter.
Great news with Holding’s victory. Even better that a gun range owner (Ted Budd) is going to be a member of Congress. He’ll be an important voice on 2nd. Amendment issues.
BTW, those moonbats at Daily Kos finally got around to computing 2012 presidential data (the one thing for which they are any good) for the new NC congressional districts, including for the redrawn NC-13 (the most marginal district in the state). We already knew that McCain had gotten 51.2% in 2008 within the lines of the redrawn NC-13, and that Romney must have done a couple of points better in 2012, but we now have the actual Romney numbers: 53.4%.
Here are the GOP presidential numbers for each redrawn CD for both 2008 and 2012:
District 2012 2008
NC-01 31.4% 32.2%
NC-02 56.5% 54.3%
NC-03 59.0% 56.8%
NC-04 34.6% 33.2%
NC-05 57.2% 54.2%
NC-06 56.4% 53.8%
NC-07 56.4% 54.6%
NC-08 55.2% 53.9%
NC-09 55.8% 54.0%
NC-10 59.1% 57.4%
NC-11 60.4% 57.1%
NC-12 31.6% 31.3%
NC-13 53.4% 51.2%