Laurie Buckhout

North Carolina’s 1st (NC - 01)

Updated: September 14, 2026

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Overview

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 people like her and corporations over rural and coastal families. Don Davis is deeply rooted in Eastern North Carolina and understands the needs of rural, farm, and coastal communities. 

SUMMARY

Starting six weeks before Election Day, voters should see ads on broadcast TV in the Raleigh-Durham, Greenville, and Norfolk media market and voters, especially persuadable voters and white college educated voters, need to see digital ads on Youtube and streaming about how Laurie Buckhout is not from here and is part of the corrupt Washington insiders that rig the system for themselves ahead of working people, farmers and coastal communities:

  • Buckhout doesn’t think the same rules apply to her – 
    • Buckhout campaigned with a convicted sex offender and even employed his wife. 
    • Buckhout tried to use her military contacts at the Pentagon to get out of a DUI. 
    • Buckhout broke the rules and bet on her own campaign on the Kalshi market resulting in a ban.
    • Buckhout has invested thousands of dollars into a company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Buckhout supports policies that paid for tax cuts for out-of-state and out-of-touch multi-millionaires like herself, by closing rural hospitals and kicking families off healthcare and food assistance.

Black voters districtwide who are at least somewhat likely to vote, need to see digital ads on YouTube and streaming about how: 

  • Laurie Buckhout is not from here and is part of the corrupt Washington insiders that rigs the system for themselves ahead of working people, farmers and coastal communities. 
  • Buckhout supports policies that paid for tax cuts for out-of-state and out-of-touch multi-millionaires like herself, by closing rural hospitals and kicking families off healthcare and food assistance.

All voters, including Black voters, who could be persuaded to vote for Don and are likely to vote, and voters who are newly registered and are likely to vote need to receive mail about: 

  • Laurie Buckhout is not from here and is part of the corrupt Washington insiders that rig the system for themselves ahead of working people, farmers and coastal communities. 
  • Buckhout doesn’t think the same rules apply to her – 
    • Buckhout campaigned with a convicted sex offender and even employed his wife. 
    • Buckhout tried to use her military contacts at the Pentagon to get out of a DUI. 
    • Buckhout broke the rules and bet on her own campaign on the Kalshi market resulting in a ban.
    • Buckhout has invested thousands of dollars into a company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Voters who could be persuaded to vote for Don and are likely to vote, and voters who are newly registered in Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Onslow, and Pamlico counties need to read mail about how:

  • Laurie Buckhout is not from here and is part of the corrupt Washington insiders that rig the system for themselves ahead of working people, farmers and coastal communities.  
  • 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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