Rep. Kathy Manning announced Thursday she will not seek reelection next year, a change of plans after a new map drawn by Republicans in the North Carolina legislature would have left the Democrat with an uphill climb to winning a third term.
“I won’t file for re-election in the egregiously gerrymandered Congressional districts,” Manning wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
A spokesperson for Manning said in October she planned to run, before the Republican-led state legislature approved new congressional maps that would have made her district a likely pickup for Republicans.
