Republican Dan Bishop pulled off a narrow victory in a closely-watched North Carolina special congressional election — a day after President Trump pushed his supporters to vote for the candidate at his packed campaign rally. Bishop, a conservative who has been a state Senator since 2017, defeated Democrat Dan McCready for the vacant House seat in the state’s 9th Congressional District. Trump threw his weight behind Bishop — and had close eyes on the race in a district where the president breezed to victory in 2016 by 11 percentage points. At a Trump campaign rally in Fayetteville on Monday night, the president encouraged the crowd to back Bishop. Trump even invited Bishop up on stage, where the GOP-candidate said: “Go out and vote for right Dan, vote for Dan Bishop.”