NC-06: Addison McDowell now uncontested in North Carolina House race after ex-Rep. Walker declines runoff

Source: Associated Press

McDowell now uncontested in North Carolina House race after ex-Rep. Walker declines runoff

BY GARY D. ROBERTSON
Updated 6:14 PM EDT, March 13, 2024

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina representative who finished second in last week’s primary for essentially his old U.S. House seat announced on Wednesday that he won’t ask for a runoff and will join Donald Trump’s presidential campaign instead.

Ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Walker, who served in Congress for six years through 2020, ran in the central North Carolina 6th District, which now stretches from Greensboro and Winston-Salem south and west to Concord.

The top vote-getter in the six-candidate March 5 Republican primary, the Trump-endorsed Addison McDowell, failed to exceed the 30% vote threshold needed to avoid a May 14 runoff. But state law said it was up to Walker to formally ask for the runoff.

But Walker said he won’t request a runoff, meaning that McDowell won the primary outright and almost assuredly will be the next 6th District representative, since he will face no Democratic opposition this fall.

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