What are the NC details? Were there competitive R races, or not?
Here are the results for the NC primaries: https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/north-carolina/
In NC-02, 32,751 voted in the Democrat primary (which highly touted liberal Linda Coleman won with 56% in a three-candidate field), and only 23,071 voted in the GOP primary (in which incumbent George Holding handily defeated his sole challenger with 76.5%). The Democrat primary was more hotly contested, but that still doesn’t explain why 42% more Democrats than Republicans voted in a suburban Republican district in which voters generally are registered with the party for which they vote in November.
In NC-09, 45,660 voted in the not-very-competitive Democrat primary (which Dan McCready won with 82.8%) while 35,494 voted in the red-hot GOP primary (in which challenger Mark Harris knocked off incumbent Robert Pittenger 48.5% to 46.2%, with 5.2% going to a third candidate). The GOP contest had a lot more publicity and campaign advertising, and Republicans have a big registered-voter advantage in suburban NC-09, so the results can’t be described as anything less than disappointing.
NC-02 and NC-09 were the two NC districts that I thought might be vulnerable this November, and nothing that I saw last night assuaged my concerns. That being said, I think that it will be easier for Mark Harris to hold NC-09 than it would have been for the unpopular Pittenger, so I disagree with the conventional wisdom of the Toupees that Pittenger’s defeat was good news for the Democrats.