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This US House district was once a political battleground. Now it shows why Congress is dysfunctional

This US House district was once a political battleground. Now it shows why Congress is dysfunctional
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In 2022, Democrat Wiley Nickel ran as a moderate and narrowly won North Carolina's 13th Congressional District by about 9,000 votes. Two years later, the current congressman, Republican Brad Knott, ran as a conservative and coasted into the U.S. House by more than 70,000 votes. Voters didn't chan...

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