Richard Ojeda
Retired US Army major and former West Virginia state senator; North Carolina Democrat.
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Won the 9th District on Hudson's concession
US Midterms 2026: Cooper beats Whatley; Foxx trails by 99Background
Richard Ojeda won North Carolina's 9th District when Republican Representative Richard Hudson, chair of the NRCC, conceded after the 3 November 2026 election.
Ojeda served 25 years in the US Army, rising to major, with two tours in Iraq, two Bronze Star Medals and more than fifteen years at Fort Bragg. He sat in the West Virginia Senate from 2017 to 2019, lost a 2018 race for West Virginia's 3rd District, and ran a brief campaign for president in the 2020 cycle.
He moved back to North Carolina and won the 9th District's Democratic primary in March 2026. Unseating the man who runs House Republicans' campaign Arm was one of 35 Democratic flips on NBC's House tally.
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