Until the last weeks of the election, polls consistently showed Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and Democrat former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley in a dead heat for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat. But as undecided voters have begun solidifying their choices, it seems they are breaking heavily toward Budd. The latest...
NBC News features North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race among five potential election surprises that could help determine which major party controls the chamber after the November election. The NBCNews.com headline declares “Senate wild cards: Five sleeper races that could surprise in 2022.”
On Thursday morning voters across North Carolina have the opportunity to cast their ballot for the 2022 midterm elections. The early voting period ends on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 3 p.m. The N.C. State Board of Elections increased the number of early voting sites this year, with 359 sites open across the state compared to...
North Carolina’s capital city of Raleigh was shaken during the evening of Oct. 13, when a 15-year-old shooter killed five people and injured two others in a neighborhood on the east side of town. One of the victims was off-duty Raleigh Police Department officer Gabriel Torres. Another was an unidentified 16-year-old male. Another RPD active-duty...
On Wednesday afternoon, the US Chamber of Commerce announced their endorsement of North Carolina's Ted Budd for US Senate. The announcement comes as Planned Parenthood announces a $50 million dump of campaign money into North Carolina and other states to impact individual states' abortion policy after the overturn of Roe V. Wade.
A new rundown of the top 10 U.S. Senate races in the country most likely to flip puts the North Carolina horserace between Republican Ted Budd and Democrat Cheri Beasley in sixth place. The compilation by CNN shifted the N.C. race to be slightly more competitive than the TV network’s last round of rankings. Recent polling...
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley has had difficulty getting her schedule to align with events by Biden administration officials visiting North Carolina, and Republicans were happy to point it out during Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to Durham on Sept. 27. “Beasley needs to be upfront with North Carolinians on why she embraces the...
North Carolina’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race is among the seven nationwide that are most likely to see a partisan “flip,” according to a report Monday in The Hill. “Seven weeks before Election Day, Senate races in closely watched swing states remain tight, but a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of the landscape heading...
The N.C. Police Benevolent Association announced Wednesday their endorsement of Republican Congressman Ted Budd in the race for U.S. Senate. In 2020, the NCPBA supported Budd's now opponent, Democrat Cheri Beasley, in her 2020 race for N.C. Supreme Court chief justice. She lost that race by 401 votes.
Getting Ted Budd to the U.S. Senate appears to be a top priority for national Republicans. In campaign spending reports out Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund PAC spent more than $3.4 million dollars in ads this week. The blitz of ads comes as former President Donald Trump announces plans to campaign for Budd in Wilmington, N.C. on September 23.
The N.C. Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments this week in a politically charged case that could end up determining who controls North Carolina's government education system, how money is allocated for it, and what is taught to North Carolina's children.
