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Today’s Agenda: Bellwether In North Carolina

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 10: Dan McCready, Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 9th District, talks with voters at his campaign office during his education tour in Elizabethtown, N.C., on Saturday, August 10, 2019... UNITED STATES - AUGUST 10: Dan McCready, Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 9th District, talks with voters at his campaign office during his education tour in Elizabethtown, N.C., on Saturday, August 10, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS

By Kate Riga, Nicole Lafond and Caitlin Mac Neal

August 28, 2019 8:23 a.m.

Happy Wednesday, August 28. Republicans are scurrying to prop up their candidate in North Carolina’s Ninth District special election to ward off a humiliating loss in a race that may be read as foreshadowing for the elections to come. Here’s more on that and the other stories we’re watching.

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