GOP Rep. Gregory Murphy has conceded his reelection bid to Democrat Raymond Smith, flipping a North Carolina House seat for Democrats after a close contest in North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District.<\/p>\n
The concession came about a week after the midterm elections, though Decision Desk HQ had yet to officially call the race as of Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> thehill.com \u2014 GOP\u2019s Murphy concedes in North Carolina House race<\/a>. Also reported by The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n GOP, North Carolina, House race, concession, Election 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GOP Rep. Gregory Murphy has conceded his reelection bid to Democrat Raymond Smith, flipping a North Carolina House seat for Democrats after a close contest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[908,63,907,906],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","category-politics","tag-concession","tag-election-2026","tag-house-race","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}