A former Army colonel who’s looking to flip a House seat from blue to red in North Carolina says her Democratic opponent, whom she accused of being a “career politician,” is “beholden” to President Biden and the Democratic policies that continue to wreak havoc on her district.
Laurie Buckhout is the GOP nominee running against Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., in the race to represent North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in the House. She spoke to Fox News Digital about her candidacy in the race, which has been ranked as a “Democrat Toss Up” by the nonpartisan elections analyst Cook Political Report.
“We have to admit that Davis is just Biden’s, you know, surrogate on the ground. He’s his agent, he’s his guy. He does what Biden says, he votes with Biden,” Buckhout said. “He’s beholden to guys like Hakeem Jeffries in Congress. He’s beholden to Biden.”
Unlike Davis, Buckhout claimed she’s “not beholden to anyone except for the voters and the constituents of eastern North Carolina.”
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Laurie Buckhout is a retired army colonel and the GOP nominee looking to defeat Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., in the race to represent North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in the House. (Laurie Buckhout campaign)
Buckhout accused Davis, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served for 14 years in the North Carolina state Senate before getting elected to the House in Nov. 2022, of being a “career politician” who has “never had a day in his life where he’s run a business.”
“He’s never created jobs. He’s been a career politician,” she said.
“You look at everything he’s done, he goes down to the border, and all that is, is for photo ops,” she added of Davis, who previously served as the mayor of Snow Hill, North Carolina, in the early 2000s. “Has he made any changes or put forth any bills to stop the invasion? No. Has he done anything to stop illegal aliens [from] bringing fentanyl into the state or to his district? No.”
Buckhout, who’s been…
