{"id":9768,"date":"2018-08-31T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:24:11","slug":"trump-heads-to-charlotte-to-protect-endangered-gop-house-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"Trump heads to Charlotte to protect endangered GOP House seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Trump<\/strong>\u00a0on Friday will turn his attention to protecting the Republican majority in the House, making a stop in North Carolina to raise money for candidates running in districts the GOP needs to hold if they hope to preserve their majority.<br \/>\nThe president will be on the ground in Charlotte for Rep.\u00a0<strong>Ted Budd<\/strong>\u00a0(R) and Pastor\u00a0<strong>Mark Harris<\/strong>, who upset Rep.\u00a0<strong>Robert Pittenger<\/strong>\u00a0(R-N.C.) in a primary earlier this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bzzbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmjbqdfp_sccbmmvrvtbmvmsbrvlp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bzzbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmjbqdfp_sccbmmvrvtbmvmsbrvlp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535799488866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGCLRDPRD1KurK6LTaPe2gL8h1IVg\">Charlotte Observer<\/a>: Whirlwind trip puts Trump in the middle of competitive House races.<br \/>\nHarris needs the help \u2013 he had less than $300,000 in his coffers at the end of June, compared to $1.8 million for his Democratic challenger\u00a0<strong>Dan McCread<\/strong>y, a Marine Corps veteran and business owner.<br \/>\nTrump won Harris\u2019s district by 11 points in 2016 but the nonpartisan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rjjwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbkwvjnr_sccbmmvrvtbmvmsbrvlp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rjjwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbkwvjnr_sccbmmvrvtbmvmsbrvlp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535799488866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRrWyFFeufuaKve99K3FDtapqATw\">Cook Political Report<\/a>\u00a0has the race rated as a toss-up.<br \/>\nBudd, meanwhile, is the favorite to win reelection \u2013 Cook has his race rated as \u201cleans Republican.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Budd\u2019s Democratic challenger\u00a0<strong>Kathy Manning<\/strong>\u00a0has been a fundraising juggernaut, outraising Budd by nearly $1 million this cycle and sitting on nearly twice the cash, as of the end of June.<br \/>\nA July poll found Budd with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hnvmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpsmwnbb_sccbmmvrvtbmvmsbrvlp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hnvmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpsmwnbb_sccbmmvrvtbmvmsbrvlp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535799488866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEDxHVYUxXQMicZBT0DDenXyEYkxA\">5 point lead in the race<\/a>.<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s fundraising swing is also a way to thank a couple of allies. Budd is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, the conservative group that contains some of the president\u2019s staunchest allies.<br \/>\nHarris is expected to join if he is elected and has said he\u2019ll support Freedom Caucus founder\u00a0<strong>Jim Jordan<\/strong>\u00a0(R-Ohio) to be Speaker if Republicans are still in the majority.<br \/>\nThe visit comes amid a crisis over North Carolina\u2019s congressional maps. A panel of judges ruled this week that the Republican-drawn maps are unconstitutional, throwing the election into chaos with only 67 days until voters head to the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0on Friday will turn his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}