Laurie Buckhout

North Carolina’s 1st (NC - 01)

Updated: August 11, 2026

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Overview

Don Davis is deeply rooted in Eastern North Carolina and understands the needs of rural and farm communities. Laurie Buckhout is not from here, she dropped in from Washington D.C. just to run for Congress and will put the interests of the rich and corporate interests over rural families.

SUMMARY

Voters especially Black voters, unaffiliated voters and white women, especially under 50 and college educated white women in the Raleigh-Durham, Greenville, and Norfolk media markets, need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms and on broadcast TV that:

  • Don Davis has a deep connection to Eastern North Carolina. Davis was born and raised in rural Eastern North Carolina. He grew up cropping tobacco to help pay for food and clothes. He was a mortuary officer in the Air Force and taught at East Carolina University. 
  • Davis is one of the most bipartisan members of Congress and has worked to bring home millions of dollars in federal funding for eastern North Carolina farmers, small businesses and veterans. He stood up to his own party to secure the border and save jobs at the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.  
  • Davis has spent his life in public service and did not go to Washington to get rich. He will ban stock trading by members of Congress and stop the pay to play system in Washington, where billionaires get the breaks and working people struggle.

Voters especially Black voters, unaffiliated voters and white women, especially under 50 and college educated white women in the Raleigh-Durham, Greenville, and Norfolk media markets: need to see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms starting eight weeks before the election and need to see broadcast TV ads starting six weeks before the election that:

  • Laurie Buckhout is not from here and is part of the Washington establishment that puts the interests of corporations and wealthy elites ahead of the needs of our farmers and coastal communities. 
  • Buckhout supports policies that paid for tax cuts for out-of-state millionaires by closing rural hospitals and kicking families off healthcare and food assistance.
  • Buckhout is a recent transplant to Eastern North Carolina. She bought one of the most expensive houses in Chowan County and then turned around to run for Congress out of self-ambition.
  • Buckhout and her allies want to let big oil companies drill off American coastlines, which could result in drilling right off the North Carolina coast. She has commanded oil companies to “DRILL!”
  • Buckhout even said she supported cuts to funding for Hurricane Helene recovery and other disaster relief. 

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