How North Carolina emerged as one of Democrats’ biggest midterm bright spots: From the Politics Desk

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In today’s edition, Natasha Korecki digs into battleground North Carolina’s massive midterm shift toward Democrats. Plus, our Capitol Hill team has the latest on the Republican leadership elections.

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With so many competing storylines and surprising outcomes from last week’s midterms, it may have been easy to miss what happened in North Carolina.

Democrats have so far managed to flip five seats from red to blue in the Tar Heel State, tied for the most of any state in the country with California, where a redrawn map gave the party a boost. And with three House races still uncalled in North Carolina, there could be more.

Razor-thin margins separate two Republican incumbents, Reps. Greg Murphy and Virginia Foxx, and their Democratic challengers in the 3rd and 5th districts, respectively. And in the 7th District, GOP Rep. David Rouzer is up by roughly 2,500 votes.

This is all happening in a state that…

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