Source: Brian Murphy, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/17/19

 
President Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot in Eastern North Carolina’s special election for Congress, but the president’s presence looms large in the Republican-leaning 3rd Congressional District. Trump carried the district by more than 23 points in 2016 and has endorsed Republican nominee Greg Murphy, a urologist and state representative who has pledged his support for the president. At Trump’s July 17 rally in Greenville — the same rally where chants of “send her back” were aimed at a Democratic congresswoman — he called Murphy to the stage.

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