late Buckhout reentry into Dist 1 GOP Congress primary raises eyebrows | Eastern NC Now
files at last minute after saying she was not running
Laurie Buckhout nearly won the First Congressional district seat in the general election of 2024. If she had indicated she wanted to run again, others would likely have stood aside for her to give it another try. Instead she cited health problems, and declared. she was not running in 2026.
With the field clear, a number of other Republican elected officials jumped in, abandoning the positions they already held to do so. This included State Senator and Shrimpgate hero Bobby Hanig, Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck, and Lenoir County Commissioner Eric Rouse, as well as Greenville attorney Ashley-Nicole Russell.
Then, at the last minute, Buckhout reversed course and filed for Congress. It was some of her moves in the days just prior to filing that really got Republican activists scratching their heads. She called Sheriff Buck and told him the way to win was to hire her old campaign team, to which Buck thanked her and let her know he had his own campaign team that had a good grip on eastern North Carolina. She insisted her team knew important people in Washington, DC who could help, but Buck said he was not interested. Then she called Bobby Hanig and offered to make him her chief of staff if he would drop out of the race, which he naturally declined to do. It is not known if she made any calls to Rouse or Russell.
Even more bizarre are Buckhout's false claims that President Trump gave her a shout out at his recent rally in Rocky Mount. The "Lori" that Trump actually gave a shout out to was specifically by name Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the Secretary of Labor, NOT Laurie Buckhout.
https://dailyhaymaker.com/nc-01-laurie-buckhout-and-the-trump-shout-out-that-was-never-really-there/
It has also emerged that the entry of Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck into this race was orchestrated by liberal RINO state senate boss Phil Berger. Berger is furious with State Senator Bobby Hanig for helping block his corrupt Shrimpgate sell out and does not want to see him go to Congress.
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The GOP is eating itself alive and MAGA ain't quite got the horsepower it used to have; I hate to say it but it's an undeniable truth. People aren't as clueless as they were in 2016.
Current "MAGA" Republicans, those who hotdogged it through the "Election Integrity" farce and played along with the "BIDEN is a legitimate President" script, are in a very tight spot with the remaining voters come primary time. The "old guard" mentality of conducting conservative political strategy has led to several disastrous high profile fumbles that ended campaigns overnight. The turd that Robinson started never stopped rolling downhill; they wanted you to forget it was there. There has to be a "come to Jesus" but the odds of that happening look slim at the present. They would rather go down with the ship than face intelligent public questioning. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was to get on TV and sound completely cookoo for CoCo Puffs....something that makes absolutely no sense. |
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Interesting! So Phil Berger is now trying to manipulate TWO local races against people on his enemies list. He recruited Asa Buck to try to defeat Bobby Hanig in our congressional race and he sent Jimmy Dixon down here to recruit Darren Armstrong to try to defeat Keith Kidwell in the state house race. It is time to send Berger AND the Berger Boys packing. Berger is pushing a state budget that would raise our taxes. Hanig and Kidwell have been staunch opponents of higher taxes and of Berger's tax increase budget.
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This makes you wonder if Buckhout's health problems were of the mental health variety. Did voices in her head tell her Trump gave her a shout out when he clearly did not?
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I am sorry, but why do we need Buckhout? She fairly recently carpetbagged into the district, and had not been involved locally until she decided to run for Congress. The others are all either natives or longtime residents who have paid their dues locally.
Bobby Hanig has served as a Currituck County Commissioner, county commission chairman, state representative, and state senator. Asa Buck has been Carteret County sheriff for many years. Eric Rouse is a multi-term Lenoir County Commissioner. |
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This smells a lot like Buckhout's old campaign team needing a job. They first got her to contact the most recently filed major candidate to try to get them jobs there. Hanig and Rouse and been in the race longer and were less likely prospects as they would already have staffs. When that did not work, they talked her back into the race herself so they would have jobs.
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"Pay no attention to the folks behind the curtain" was their preference but things are beginning to come to light.
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Smoke and mirrors keep county citizens paying higher taxes.
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Understanding how parties work is important for making informed decisions regarding elected officials.
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Constant schedule/venue changes and double standards continue.
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Beaufort County residents deserve lower taxes and should demand them from government.
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Two years ago, new media brought President Trump back to the White House. What happened?
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 @ 8:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Victims’ advocates, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, and families impacted by violent crime gathered Tuesday at the North Carolina State Archives building in Raleigh to recognize National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and honor those affected by crime across North Carolina.
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"It has been absolutely successful."
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by Rev. Mark Creech
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 @ 8:39 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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NO, the Vegetable President did NOT win the election of 2020. We know that now, with what the Non Patriot Left did to cover up their nefarious trail under the corrupt practices of the Deep State, the corrupt Democratic Socialist Party, and their corrupt Judiciary, pieces and parts, along with the propagandistic help of the Democratic Socialists Media, Orwellian in Scope ... All under the cover of the manufactured, but very real Covid, along with those "necessary" 40 million plus absentee ballots floating about willy nilly, employed to cheat their parts of this election Fraud of 2020, when needed, as we are now finally discovering in Fulton County, Georgia, the home county of the corrupt Democratic Socialist prosecutor, Fani Willis.
This Constitutional Republic will not continue to exist if the Deep State, the corrupt Democratic Socialist Party, and their corrupt Judiciary participants, and most importantly, their Democratic Socialists Propagandistic Media is not STOPPED, and stopped quickly.
The Republicans involved in this public mendacity must be found out, and dealt with similarly.