Rep. G.Ok. Butterfield (D-N.C.), a longtime chief of the Congressional Black Caucus, received’t search reelection subsequent 12 months — one other blow to Democrats’ efforts to maintain management of the Home after the midterm elections.
Butterfield, first elected to an Jap North Carolina congressional seat in 2004, noticed his district bear important modifications in redistricting. Underneath its present configuration, now-President Joe Biden received by about 9 factors there final 12 months, as Butterfield received reelection by an analogous margin — the closest of his electoral profession.
Republicans within the state legislature shifted the traces to make the seat much less Democratic, nevertheless, within the new map, which was enacted earlier this month. Biden would solely have received the seat by 3 factors underneath the brand new traces, and the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee has recognized the 74-year-old Butterfield as one in every of its prime targets subsequent 12 months.