House GOP campaign chair loses his own race
Axios · Kate Santaliz ·
President Trump carried the district by 16 points in 2024.
The chairman of House Republicans' campaign arm, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), joined the lengthy list of Republicans who've lost their reelection bids, AP projects.
Why it matters: The man tasked with preserving House Republicans' majority couldn't save his own seat, in a stunning indictment of the GOP's campaign operation.
As chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Hudson spent the past four years leading his party's' efforts to defend their razor-thin House majority, raising hundreds of millions of dollars and helping direct the party's campaign strategy across the country.