Jamie Ager projected to win Democratic primary in North Carolina House district

Washington — Jamie Ager has won the Democratic superior successful North Carolina's 11th Congressional District connected Tuesday, CBS News has projected.

Ager, a fourth-generation farmer, volition look incumbent GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards successful the November elections. Edwards has represented the occidental North Carolina territory since 2023. 

The Cook Political Report has rated the territory arsenic "likely Republican," but Democrats judge they person a accidental astatine flipping the spot arsenic the enactment seeks to retake power of the House. 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, oregon the DCCC, announced past week that Ager was among a twelve "top-tier" candidates who would person further resources and fundraising enactment heading into the wide election. Ager was besides endorsed by the run limb of the Blue Dog Coalition, which bills itself arsenic a radical of pragmatic Democrats. 

In March 2025, video went viral from a municipality hallway wherever aggravated constituents confronted Edwards, starring President Trump to measurement successful that the lawsuit was "'littered' with Radical Left Lunatics, mostly Democrats, and each they did was scream, outcry and usage filthy language."

A Democrat has not won the spot since 2010. According to the DCCC, the territory is 1 of five that swung the astir toward Democrats' successful 2024. 

Western North Carolina was slammed successful 2024 with catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene, and Edwards has been grilled by some Democrats and Republicans for dilatory delivery of betterment funds.