Source: Lynn Bonner, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/29/17


Redistricting claimed its first victim.Republican state Sen. Bill Cook, drawn into a Democratic-leaning district in a new election map, announced Tuesday that he won’t run for reelection. Cook, who lives in Beaufort County, argued against the configuration of the district this week. It’s an area Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won with 53 percent of the vote over Republican Donald Trump, who took 45 percent.

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