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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
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2022 @ 11:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Three recent polls have put Republican Ted Budd ahead of Democrat Cheri Beasley as the race for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat enters the homestretch.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 7:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Much of the media’s attention in North Carolina’s 2022 U.S. congressional races has been on the open U.S. Senate seat and the N.C.-13 race, both of which appear to be tossups
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Jordan may be disqualified from running for the North Carolina Third District Senate seat
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 3:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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GOP House Representative Ted Budd of North Carolina and Cheri Beasley will face off in November for the North Carolina Senate seat after Senator Richard Burr (R) did not seek reelection, setting up a heated contest in the swing state.
Published: Sunday, July 31st, 2022 @ 10:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina Senate Republicans may have an even greater likelihood of picking up a supermajority after the Democratic candidate in one of the state’s most competitive seats dropped out of the race.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is one less “toss-up” for Democrats on the Senate map.
Published: Monday, February 28th, 2022 @ 9:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It may be a new year, but Democrats are playing the same game. Donors from blue states like California, Massachusetts and New York are boosting Cheri Beasley in the hopes of buying North Carolina’s senate seat.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 9:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The News & Observer reported today that former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Cheri Beasley will likely be running for the Richard Burr’s Senate seat.
Published: Thursday, March 25th, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I’ve been watching the emerging election for North Carolina’s Senate seat and wonder if we are seeing symptoms of a larger trend.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 12:13 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As Democrats and Republicans actively contest North Carolina's governorship, U.S. Senate seat, and 15 electoral votes for president this fall, don't expect them to ignore other races on the ballot
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ 10:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Republican legislator John Rhodes, running as a write-in unaffiliated candidate for US Senate, says voters AND the government need to take a closer look at the ethics of GOP US Senate nominee Thom Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Yep. That's the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the biggest motivating factors in politics is anger.
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 9:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I liked the format of Thursday's debate much better than the previous two. It allowed for more of a give-and-take between the candidates.
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 9:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Okay. It’s become pretty clear that Kay Hagan’s upper middle-class family has benefited greatly from our bloated state and federal governments.
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nothing undercuts the enjoyment of watching football (Go Steelers!) on a Sunday afternoon more than tiresome political ads, particularly those pro-Kay Hagan ads that employ "political sleight of hand" to substantiate claims of funding cuts to public education in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Why on God’s green earth would you have someone campaign for you who so fundamentally disagrees with you on the issues?
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 3:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's football season. One of the favorite stats of sports drive-bys is time of possession (a/k/a "time on offense.") The longer your team has the ball, the longer the other team is without the ball AND a chance to score points against you.
Published: Sunday, September 14th, 2014 @ 1:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 9:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Sources are telling us that emissaries from the DC Republican establishment had a sit-down with NC Tea Party activists in The Queen City Tuesday evening.
Published: Saturday, August 30th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Post says Republicans will take the US Senate, but we - in North Carolina - can likely expect SIX MORE YEARS of Kay Hagan.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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House speaker Thom Tillis has come out of hiding, thrown on his Big Boy Pants, and hand-delivered a personal response to the state Board of Elections regarding allegations made by a former legislator.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 4:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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US Senator – and chief fundraiser and cheerleader for Thom Tillis — Richard Burr says there’s not much hope for stopping BarryO’s agenda and that we can forget changing ObamaCare AT ALL until after 2016.
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Who IS Alex Bradshaw? Politicos from Murphy to Manteo are asking this question.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Why release hypothetical November matchup results when filing hasn't started and we still have a May primary election?
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 7:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, being the southern gentlemen we are here, we thought we'd take a moment to help out our state's junior US senator in this area.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, the worst kept secret in North Carolina politics got "let out of the bag" today - state House speaker Thom Tillis is jumping into the 2014 US Senate GOP primary.
Published: Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 @ 10:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's one of the worst kept secrets in North Carolina that state House speaker Thom Tillis aspires to replace Kay Hagan in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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As of today we have won the North Carolina Senate District 1seat. You and I have worked hard to get here.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 9:27 am
By: Bill Cook
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Leaders in the North Carolina Republican Party are doing all they can to help Chad Barefoot get elected to the Senate District 18 seat as part of a larger effort to expand their new majority and advance their agenda.
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 @ 1:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Stanly County Commissioner Gene McIntyre and Rockingham Mayor Gene McLaurin, a Democrat, will compete for the North Carolina Senate seat long occupied by seven-term incumbent Bill Purcell, D-Scotland County, one of 11 state senators and six Democrats not seeking re-election.
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2012 @ 12:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article is about Eastern North Carolina and the May 8, primary election for the North Carolina House and Senate seats.
Published: Friday, April 6th, 2012 @ 5:05 am
By: Hood Richardson
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