Democrat 6th District Congresswoman Kathy Manning easily won a second term in Congress in the Tuesday, Nov. 8 election.
Manning won reelection with 138,104 votes for 53.7 percent over Republican first-time candidate Christian Castelli who had 116,076 votes for 45 percent.
Libertarian candidate Thomas Watercott tallied 2,770 votes for 1 percent.
Manning won her first term in 2020 in a markedly different and more Democratic 6th District.
The current 6th District includes all of Guilford and Rockingham counties, most of Caswell County and a portion of Forsythe County. The congressional redistricting map was drawn by special masters appointed by the North Carolina courts and is supposed to only be used for the 2022 election.
Manning won Guilford County with 109,319 votes for 59 percent over Castelli who had 74,166 votes for 40 percent.
However, Castelli won big in Rockingham County with 66.6 percent of the vote to 32 percent for Manning and Castelli also won in Caswell County and Forsyth County.
Unfortunately for Castelli that 66.6 percent only totaled 21,512 votes in Rockingham County and 60 percent in Caswell County was only 4,713 votes. In Forsyth County Castelli won with 15,645 votes to 15,324 for Manning.
So while Castelli won three of the four counties in the 6th District, the votes were not anywhere close to enough to overcome Manning’s major win in Guilford County.
Along with the advantage of being an incumbent, Manning also raised more than four times as much money as Castelli. According to Open Secrets, Manning raised $2.8 million and had $800,000 cash on hand on Oct. 19. Castelli raised $661,000, so Manning had more cash on hand going into the final weeks of the election than Castelli was able to raise for his entire campaign.
Manning had no Democratic primary opponent while Castelli survived a seven candidate Republican primary that he won over second place finisher, 2020 Republican 6th District candidate Lee Haywood, by a little over 1,000 votes.
Another word for blue is gloomy. Guilford County is very gloomy with the center being the city of Greensboro.
Even though my candidate lost, my vote was not wasted. Mr. Castelli , Greensboro will not change…they are still stuck in the 60s.
Can you tell me where Manning got all her funding? How much was from out of state?
I would think very little. It is largely a blue district, so there was little doubt about who would win.
Where that money came from is a very good question. i would guess that most was from out of state. I would love to see the metrics on this
God bless Guilford County.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kathy-manning/summary?cid=N00042159
I am so disappointed. I’m glad we had an option. Kathy Manning can expect continued email and FB posts from me regarding my concerns about the horrible decisions she makes as she serves the Democratic progressive crowd in DC.
I think part of Castelli problem was he is an unknown around the political circle.
You are right. I didn’t see much on the Idiot Box from him. On the ones I did see, he used his daughter as a visual aid. I call this virtue signaling.
Whoever ran his campaign did a poor job. What about the national issues? Does anyone remember the Helms-Hunt Senate race years ago? Sen. Helms listed his stand on every important issue, and won election.
Countdown to ruining the neighborhoods around the Hebrew Academy. They only halted the progress to get her elected. So happy we have liberal elites who will sell the rest of us down the River for “unaccompanied minors” AKA illegal immigrants. Send them back. Find the people that dropped them off and send them back. While Manning sits in her bubble the streets around that school will be destroyed. They will be housing El Salvador gangbangers. Mark my words.
Mr. Castelli Is a decent man with good values. He is a veteran that served our county and did not deserve the lies in Manning commercials about him. This just shows that the democrats will do anything to win an election. He had to send Manning campaign a letter from a lawyer teller her to stop the commercials with the lies. Not how a veteran should be treated.
O Y V E Y !
Oyvey, indeed. Too many white and nonwhite liberals in the city of Greensboro. They are known as urban dwellers. They are also known for being socially progressive, engaging in groupthink, and believe they are morally superior. Refrain from inviting one to a party unless you enjoy being bored.
The Manning win was a done deal some time ago. Democrat judges saw to that when they had the sixth district redrawn in the democrats favor. Republicans need not apply in Guilford County. Talk about crooked politics.
Hopefully this will be remedied when the SCOTUS rules on the pending NC redistricting case. This court appointed district will go away and Rockingham Co. can be back in Virigina Foxx’s District with the Republican representation it wants.