North Carolina Democrats are hoping to elect Cheri Beasley as the state's first Black senator. Republican Ted Budd seeks to capitalize on Donald Trump’s endorsement. ElectionDay.
in the campaign’s final days, with him appearing in an ad for her. Biden never came to the state to campaign publicly for her, but Beasley had been noncommittal about attending such an event with a president who lost North Carolina’s electoral votes in 2020 and is harboring low approval numbers.
Beasley sought to generate support from unaffiliated and Republican women who were fearful of Budd’s anti-abortion stance in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June striking down Roe v. Wade. Democrats and their allies piled on Budd for co-sponsoring a measure to ban abortion nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with some exceptions. But his support for much more restrictive legislation made him susceptible to accusations that he would seek to eliminate abortion completely.
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