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华盛顿 — 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道，杰米·埃杰（Jamie Ager）在周二举行的北卡罗来纳州第11国会选区民主党初选中获胜。
作为第四代农民，埃杰将在11月的选举中对阵现任共和党众议员查克·爱德华兹（Chuck Edwards）。爱德华兹自2023年起一直代表这个北卡罗来纳州西部地区。
库克政治报告将该选区评为”倾向共和党”，但民主党人认为他们有机会翻转这一席位，因为该党正试图重新夺回众议院控制权。
民主党国会竞选委员会（DCCC）上周宣布，埃杰是12名”顶级”候选人之一，这些候选人将在大选前获得额外的资源和筹款支持。埃杰还获得了蓝狗联盟（Blue Dog Coalition）竞选机构的支持，该联盟自称为”务实民主党人”组成的团体。
2025年3月，一场市政厅会议上的视频走红，愤怒的选民质问爱德华兹，导致特朗普总统介入称该活动”充斥着激进的左翼疯子，大多是民主党人，他们所做的只是尖叫、大喊并使用污秽语言”。
自2010年以来，民主党人尚未赢得过这个席位。根据DCCC的数据，该选区是2024年转向民主党最明显的五个选区之一。
2024年，北卡罗来纳州西部遭受了飓风海伦（Hurricane Helene）引发的灾难性洪水袭击，爱德华兹因恢复资金拨付迟缓而受到民主党人和共和党人的批评。
Jamie Ager projected to win Democratic primary in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District
March 3, 2026 / 9:17 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — Jamie Ager has won the Democratic primary in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District on Tuesday, CBS News has projected.
Ager, a fourth-generation farmer, will face incumbent GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards in the November elections. Edwards has represented the western North Carolina district since 2023.
The Cook Political Report has rated the district as “likely Republican,” but Democrats believe they have a chance at flipping the seat as the party seeks to retake control of the House.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or the DCCC, announced last week that Ager was among a dozen “top-tier” candidates who would receive additional resources and fundraising support heading into the general election. Ager was also endorsed by the campaign arm of the Blue Dog Coalition, which bills itself as a group of pragmatic Democrats.
In March 2025, video went viral from a town hall where angry constituents confronted Edwards, leading President Trump to weigh in that the event was “‘littered’ with Radical Left Lunatics, mostly Democrats, and all they did was scream, shout and use filthy language.”
A Democrat has not won the seat since 2010. According to the DCCC, the district is one of five that swung the most toward Democrats’ in 2024.
Western North Carolina was slammed in 2024 with catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene, and Edwards has been grilled by both Democrats and Republicans for slow delivery of recovery funds.
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