After winning DA’s race, Smith focused on morale, Zimmer Donaldson says she’ll leave office

Note: A version of this report ran in The Dive, a free weekly newsletter produced by WHQR and The Assembly. You can find out more here. After 20 years under former District Attorney Ben David, prosecutors in New Hanover and Pender counties had grown used to an office largely insulated from partisan politics. That changed when David resigned, and the race to replace him went negative.

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