State politics reporter Lucille Sherman talks with two candidates running for North Carolina's House District 37 race — Representative Sydney Batch and Erin Paré — about education, healthcare and more.

This is the first episode of the special elections edition of Domecast. We'll spotlight a different statewide or legislative race every week until the election.

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