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Hardister's Seat Is A Target For Dems In 2020

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber, Rafael Lima
Published October 5, 2020 at 3:44 PM EDT
Redistricting is expected to make the NC 59th House seat in eastern Guilford more competitive this year. Image: N.C. General Assembly 2020 map courtesy ncleg.gov

Redistricting has put several long-held General Assembly seats in play this year, including the 59th House District.

Republican incumbent Jon Hardister is seeking a fifth consecutive term. 

He's being challenged by Nicole Quick, former chair of the Democratic Party in Guilford County making her first run for an office in the General Assembly.

The 59th district was redrawn in 2019 following a state court order. It now contains parts of Greensboro and eastern Guilford County. 

The seat is viewed by Democrats as one of the key recently redrawn districts. They're hoping with a win to flip control of the House away from the Republicans for the first time since 2010.

As of July, Quick had outraised Hardister by more than $80,000, reaffirming a serious effort by Democrats to unseat the House Majority Whip. 

 

 
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Paul Garber
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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