Source: Griffin Connolly, ROLL CALL, 3/1/19


Former Rep. Robert Pittenger, the most recent person to hold North Carolina’s vacant 9th District seat, urged President Donald Trump on Friday to help the GOP “coalesce” behind a someone by choosing his preferred primary candidate as early as possible. “The president does need to weigh in on this now,” Pittenger said in a radio interview Friday with WBT in Charlotte. If a dozen Republicans jump into the race and empty their campaign coffers in the primary for the chance to face the likely Democratic nominee, Dan McCready, that could prove a costly misallocation of resources in a district that Republicans feel they should win, the former three-term congressman said.

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