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North Carolina candidate for Congress suspends campaign days before primary runoff after Trump weighs in
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The candidate who finished first in the Republican nomination primary race for a North Carolina congressional seat says she’s suspending her campaign, citing her rival’s endorsement by former President Donald Trump in the runoff election.
Though Johnston County attorney Kelly Daughtry had the most votes among 14 candidates in the March 5 GOP primary for North Carolina 13th Congressional District, she did not reach the 30% threshold needed to win the primary outright. She and Brad Knott, who finished second and is a former federal prosecutor, had advanced to the scheduled May 14 runoff.
Daughtry said in a social media post that because of Trump has formally backed Knott, “it has become clear that a pathway to victory is no longer feasible.”
“I believe in the democratic process and respect the endorsement of our President,” Daughtry added.
Knott also picked up the endorsement of third-place primary finisher Fred Von Canon.
“The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” Daughtry added. “Brad has my full endorsement, and I want him to know that I am here to support him, not to oppose him.”
However, it’s too late to remove Daughtry’s name from the ballot. Early in-person voting for the runoff continues through May 11, and absentee balloting has been taking place for weeks.
Knott accepted Daughtry’s endorsement in his own statement but cautioned supporters who believed he was now the primary winner. Daughtry, the daughter of former state legislative leader Leo Daughtry, ran unsuccessfully for a congressional seat in 2022.
“While Kelly has ended her campaign, this election is not over,” Knott said. “I strongly encourage my supporters to get out and vote on May 14.”
The seat for the reconfigured 13th District covers all or parts of eight counties. The horseshoe-shaped boundaries arc around most of Raleigh, the state capital, and stretch from Lee County — then east and north — to the Virginia border.
The current 13th District is represented by first-term Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel. Nickel, however, declined to seek reelection, citing the North Carolina legislature’s redistricting last fall that skewed his district to the right politically. Two other Democratic incumbents — Reps. Jeff Jackson and Kathy Manning — didn’t run either, saying the GOP-leaning skew also made it impossible for them to win in November.
The GOP runoff winner in the 13th District will still have a fall Democratic rival in Frank Pierce. Still the Democratic departures could make a big difference in whether Republicans can retain their narrow U.S. House majority entering 2025.
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Antisemitism in Europe drives some Jews to seek safety in Israel despite ongoing war in Gaza
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Ashdod, southern Israel — There will be a decisive second round of voting in France Sunday after the far-right National Rally Party, led by Marine Le Pen, won big against centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the national election exactly one week earlier.
Le Pen’s party has a history of racism, antisemitism and islamophobia dating back decades. Some prominent Jewish figures in France — which is largely considered to have the biggest Jewish population in Europe — say there’s been more antisemitism lately not only from the far-right, but also from the left.
Tension has mounted across Europe since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with massive rallies, most of them pro-Palestinian, held in major cities across the continent.
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Harrowing images from Gaza have fueled outrage and, in some alarming cases, antisemitism has been seen and heard. In one of the most worrying examples, some people even celebrated on the streets of London on the day that Hamas militants killed some 1,200 people in their unprecedented terrorist attack on Israel.
Nearly 40% of antisemitic incidents in the world last year took place in Europe, and there was a spike after that Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. In Germany, they nearly doubled. In the U.K., they more than doubled. And in France, they nearly quadrupled.
Those incidents and the underlying hatred behind them have prompted some Jewish families to move not further away from the war, but toward it — to Israel.
Requests from French Jews to relocate to Israel have soared by 430% since October.
Among those who have already made that move are Sarah Zohar and her family, who lived a comfortable life in France — until her children were attacked while walking to sports practice.
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They packed their bags and moved to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, remarkably only about 15 miles from the Gaza Strip, which Hamas ruled for almost 20 years and from which it launched its attack in October.
“I feel safer here,” Zohar told CBS News, but she doesn’t pretend it’s been an easy transition for her family.
“I have a child, 12 years old, and he’s told me, ‘I don’t want to go to Israel, because I don’t want people to come to my house and kill me with a knife and take my head off,” she said. “I told him: ‘You have nothing to be afraid. We have an army to defend us.'”
About 2,000 miles away, back in Paris, Rabbi Tom Cohen said Jews were remembering the antisemitism of World War II, and for some, it felt like “we didn’t get past it, and it is still here — it just has changed form, like many viruses change and mutate.”
CBS News met Guila and Eitan Elbazis as they moved into their new home in Ashdod after leaving their lives in London.
They showed off their new bomb shelter room.
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“Hopefully, please, God, there won’t be any rockets, but as you can see, this door is bulletproof, and it locks up,” Giulia said.
As the Elbazis start a family, they decided they’d rather contend with the threat of Hamas and Hezbollah on their doorstep than with hatred on the streets of London.
“I think there’s a general sense of fear and anxiety and lack of comfort in London,” Eitan said.
“Like I have to hide who I am to be safe,” agreed Giulia.
They said they felt safer in Israel, “hands down. Without even thinking about it.”
“We have institutions here to defend us,” said Eitan.
Giulia added that while Israel is a country at war, “this is home,” and for them, it’s a home where they don’t have to hide who they are.
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