Overview
- The Associated Press projected Buckhout the winner of a five-candidate Republican primary, and the NRCC moved to back her for November.
- State lawmakers last year reconfigured the district to be more conservative, making it one of Republicans’ best pickup opportunities.
- Buckhout, a retired Army colonel and former White House cyber policy official, led fundraising after loaning her campaign about $2 million.
- Democratic Rep. Don Davis ran unopposed for his party’s nomination and previously edged Buckhout in 2024 by less than two points.
- A Republican win would end more than three decades of Black representation in the district and mark the first GOP hold there since the 1880s.