ELON, North Carolina — Democrat Richard Ojeda is hoping that the public’s discontent with the Trump administration can provide enough of a blue wave to unseat Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Ojeda is running in the Tar Heel State‘s 9th Congressional District against Hudson, but election forecasters such as the Cook Political Report rate the district as “solid Republican.” The fallout from the Iran war and subsequent high gas prices has Democrats dreaming that they can even flip a district that President Donald Trump won by 16 points.

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