Kathy Manning

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Kathy Manning
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives
from North Carolina's 6th district
Assumed office
January 3, 2021
Website House website
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Kathy Manning speaks in support of the Speak Out Act
Recorded November 16, 2022

Kathy Ellen Manning (born December 3, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina, presently representing the state's North 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, her district is in the heart of the Piedmont Triad and includes Greensboro and most of Winston-Salem. She was the nominee for North Carolina's 13th congressional district in the 2018 election, and ran for and won the neighboring 6th in the 2020 election after court-ordered redistricting.

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Early life and education

Manning was born to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, on December 3, 1956. [1] [2] Her father worked for the Ford Motor Company for 40 years, and her mother was a public school teacher. Manning attended Harvard University, where she sang a cappella with the Radcliffe Pitches. [3] [4] She also attended the University of Michigan Law School, earning a Juris Doctor. [5]

Early career

After graduating from college, Manning moved to Greensboro, her husband's hometown, in 1987. She was the first woman to serve as board chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, [6] from 2009 to 2012. [7] She also was the founding board chair of Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools in New York. [8]

U.S. House of Representatives

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Manning greeting President Joe Biden in April 2022
Manning speaking at an event with Governor Roy Cooper and EPA Administrator Michael Regan P20220414YM 1061 (52078296954).jpg
Manning speaking at an event with Governor Roy Cooper and EPA Administrator Michael Regan

Elections

2018

In 2018, Manning ran against Republican incumbent Ted Budd for the United States House of Representatives in North Carolina's 13th congressional district . [9] At the time, the district stretched from southwestern Greensboro to the northern exurbs of Charlotte. On paper, the district tilted Republican; Donald Trump had carried the district two years earlier with 53% of the vote. She lost to Budd, 51%–45%.

2020

After a court-ordered redistricting in 2019, Manning's home in Greensboro was drawn into the neighboring 6th District , represented by three-term Republican Mark Walker. The new 6th included all of Guilford County and swept west to grab the more Democratic areas of neighboring Forsyth County, including almost all of Winston-Salem. [10] The old 6th included eastern Greensboro, as well as much of the eastern Triad and some outer suburbs of the Triangle.

On December 2, 2019, hours before the new map was issued, Manning announced she would run in the 6th. [11] The new district was significantly more compact and Democratic than its predecessor. Had it existed in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have won it with over 59% of the vote [12] –a near-mirror image of Trump's 56% in the old 6th. [13] On paper, the new 6th was one of the most Democratic white-majority districts in the South.

With most observers believing the 6th was a likely Democratic pickup, [14] Walker announced he would not run for a fourth term. [15]

Manning won the Democratic primary, and in the general election, she defeated Republican nominee Lee Haywood with 62% of the vote. Upon her swearing-in on January 3, 2021, [16] she became the first Democrat to represent this district since 1985, and the first white Democrat to represent a Triad-based district since Steve Neal left office in 1995.

Manning has stated health care is one of her driving issues, motivated by the "labyrinthine process of getting insurance" to cover her daughter's medication. [17]

Tenure

Manning voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis. [18] In December 2023, she announced that she would not be running for reelection due to new "egregiously gerrymandered congressional districts" in North Carolina. [19]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Personal life

Manning and her husband, Randall Kaplan, have three children. [22]

Electoral history

North Carolina's 13th congressional district, 2018 Democratic primary results [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kathy Manning 19,554 70.1
Democratic Adam Coker8,32429.9
Total votes27,878 100.0
North Carolina's 13th congressional district, 2018 [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Ted Budd (incumbent) 147,570 51.5
Democratic Kathy Manning130,40245.6
Libertarian Tom Bailey5,5131.9
Green Robert Corriher2,8311.0
Total votes286,316 100.0
Republican hold
North Carolina's 6th congressional district, 2020 Democratic primary results [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kathy Manning 56,986 48.3
Democratic Rhonda Foxx23,50619.9
Democratic Bruce Davis17,73115.0
Democratic Derwin Montgomery 14,70512.5
Democratic Ed Hanes 5,0674.3
Total votes117,995 100.0
North Carolina's 6th congressional district, 2020 [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kathy Manning 253,531 62.3
Republican Lee Haywood153,59837.7
Total votes407,129 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican
North Carolina's 6th congressional district, 2022 [27]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kathy Manning (incumbent) 139,553 53.9
Republican Christian Castelli116,63545.0
Libertarian Thomas Watercott2,8101.1
Total votes256,950 100.0
Democratic hold

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References

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  2. ↑ Murphy, Brian (October 18, 2018). "Challenger turns health care fight personal in her congressional bid in NC". The News & Observer. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
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  7. ↑ "Kathy Manning brought Jews together. Can she do the same for Congress? | The Jewish Federations of North America". jewishfederations.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
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  11. ↑ Elise Manahan (December 2, 2019). "Kathy Manning announces congressional candidacy as judges review redrawn district map". News & Record.
  12. ↑ Presidential results for reconfigured North Carolina districts via Daily Kos
  13. ↑ Presidential results by congressional district for districts used in 2016, from Daily Kos
  14. ↑ Gardner, Amy (November 15, 2019). "Democrats would likely gain two seats under new congressional map approved by North Carolina legislature" . Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  15. ↑ Murphy, Brian (December 16, 2019). "His House district was made a Democratic one. Here's what's next for Mark Walker". The Herald-Sun . Durham, North Carolina . Retrieved December 5, 2020.
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  17. ↑ Ellen Wexler (January 5, 2021). "Ms.Manning Goes to Washington". Moment Magazine.
  18. ↑ Bycoffe, Aaron; Wiederkehr, Anna (2021-04-22). "Does Your Member Of Congress Vote With Or Against Biden?". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  19. ↑ "Manning Won't File for Re-Election Under Egregiously Gerrymandered Maps | Representative Kathy Manning". manning.house.gov. 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
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from North Carolina's 6th congressional district
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