Representative G. K. Butterfield is today set to become the latest Democrat to quit the House two weeks after a new congressional map was carved up in a boost to the GOP.
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He becomes the seventh House Democrat from a battleground district to announce he won’t be running for re-election next year, along with nine other Democrats in safer seats…
Butterfield, 74, a longtime leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, was first elected to an Eastern North Carolina congressional seat in 2004.
Biden won by around 9 points there last year, with Butterfield re-elected by a similar margin.
But under new battle lines drawn up by the Republicans, Biden would have won by just 3 points and Butterfield’s seat has been marked up as a top target for the GOP.
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