# North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx trails challenger by 99 votes

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/mean-octogenarian-congresswoman-83-notorious-for-screaming-at-journalists-and-sending-rude-letter-to-child-on-verge-of-losing-her-seat/
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:32:16+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T16:50:12+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16268307/US-Midterms-race-North-Carolina-virginia-foxx.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Chuck Hubbard leads Virginia Foxx by 99 votes.
- More than 95 per cent of ballots have been counted.
- Foxx has not conceded the race.

## Summary

Republican Virginia Foxx is trailing Democrat Chuck Hubbard by 99 votes in North Carolina’s fifth congressional district, with more than 95 per cent of ballots counted. The close result could end Foxx’s 21-year career in Congress, though she has not conceded and says the race is not yet decided.

Hubbard has 139,034 votes, or 48.7 per cent, to Foxx’s 138,935, or 48.66 per cent, according to NBC. Foxx noted that an earlier election result in her career was reversed after officials found 100 votes had been misallocated. Her tenure has included public controversies, including shouting “shut up” at journalists in 2023 and a letter criticising a 10-year-old who wrote to her about electric vehicle tax credits.

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