I don’t understand why Districts 5 and 10 are drawn that way, though I’d assume the NC GOP wanted to protect their only female rep from Mark Walker’s potential carpetbagging. Railroading Virginia Foxx is bad optics for a party who’s trying to win over women.
Have we ever heard anything of the sort from the GOP? I know electing more women to the party has been one of Stefanik's goals for some time, but there have been no indication I've seen that either the voters or the party establishment wants that. Nor do they really care about the optics of it.
