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Redrawn 5th District Race Features Incumbent Foxx, Two Challengers

The U.S. 5th Congressional District, which historically has included at least part of Forsyth County, shifted westward under the latest round of redistricting. Image: N.C. General Assembly 2020 map courtesy ncleg.gov

U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx of Watauga County is seeking her ninth term in office, facing two challengers as she runs in a revamped 5th District that no longer includes Forsyth County.

Incumbent Virginia Foxx is widely expected to retain her seat come November. This comes despite changes to the state's fifth congressional district which now stretches from Ashe to Gaston County, encompassing parts of both the northern and southern border of the state. 

Foxx, a former schoolteacher and state senator, has maintained a firm grasp on the seat since she first took office in 2005.

Democratic challenger David Wilson Brown is a familiar name to many in the area. Two years ago he challenged — but fell short of defeating — Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry in the former 10th congressional district, which has also been redrawn. 

The ballot will also include Air Force veteran and local postmaster Jeff Gregory running as the Constitution Party candidate. 

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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