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Vastly Different NC 13th Still Favors GOP

The 13th District from 2018 has been largely divided between the 6th and 13th for the 2020 election, with large new areas from mostly rural counties. Image: N.C. General Assembly map courtesy ncleg.gov

Much has changed for North Carolina's 13th District since court-ordered redistricting changed the lines.

It no longer features the urban core of Guilford County. Instead, it consists of mostly rural areas from Rowan County at the district's southwest tip up to Person County to the northeast.

Incumbent Republican Ted Budd is seeking his third term, having defeated Democrat Kathy Manning in a high-profile race 2018. She's now the Democratic nominee in the 6th District. Now, Budd is facing Democrat Scott Huffman.

Huffman is a Navy veteran who ran in the 2018 8th District race but lost in the primary. Both candidates are businessmen. 

There is a large disparity between the campaign finances, according to campaign filings posted by the Center for Responsive Politics. As of June, Budd had outraised his challenger by over $1 million, with much of the money coming from PAC donations. Huffman had little PAC support with most of his money coming from individual donors.

The district favors the GOP and political analysts consider the seat to be safely Republican.  

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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