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Five Candidates Vie For U.S. Fifth District

Screenshot courtesy of State Board of Elections.

Voters head to the polls for the primary on May 8, and women are dominating the race for U.S. Fifth Congressional District.

That includes a powerful five-term incumbent, Virginia Foxx. Foxx has never had trouble fending of primary challengers during her time in Washington. Now she faces two Republicans hoping to unseat her – Dillon Gentry of Banner Elk and Cortland Meader of Mocksville. Both are political newcomers.

As of mid-April, Foxx had raised almost $1.5 million for the race, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Totals for Gentry and Meader were not available.

Whoever wins the Republican primary will face a woman Democrat in the November General Election.

D.D. Adams has been a Winston-Salem City Council Member since 2009. Marshall is a teacher who has been involved in the Democratic Party's activities.

Both have raised more than $100,000 for the campaign, with Adams having a slight edge, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Fifth District includes Winston-Salem and the mountain counties of Western North Carolina.

 

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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