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Democrats Hope To Retain Hard-Won Guilford NC Senate Seat

The 27th NC Senate seat had been a GOP stronghold until Michael Garrett defeated Trudy Wade in 2018 after losing to her in 2016. Image: N.C. General Assembly 2020 map courtesy ncleg.gov

Democrats were able to swing some legislative seats in 2018 and hope to retain them this year. One of them is Guilford County's 27th Senate District.

Michael Garrett defeated Republican incumbent Trudy Wade back in 2018, winning by a small margin of just over one percent — enough to move forward without a recount. 

He currently serves as a member of the Senate Committee on Redistricting & Election. In his re-election campaign, Garrett is emphasizing better education, expanding Medicaid, and nonpartisan redistricting.

He's being challenged by Republican Sebastian King, former Policy Advisor to State Representative John Hardister. 

King says he has a plan that would allow smaller businesses to pay less taxes and get more investment in low-income areas in Greensboro and High Point.

The district was impacted very little by the latest round of redistricting, which means this race will likely be close again. 

 

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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