Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R) has lost his primary in N.C. The controversial freshman was defeated by Chuck Edwards.
On May 17, Democratic nominee Cheri Beasley, the first Black woman to serve as a state Supreme Court chief justice, won the North Carolina Senate primary. “North Carolina, I’m honored to be your nominee and I’m honored to stand with all of you and on the shoulders of many trailblazers who came before to be the first African American woman to be your Democratic Senate nominee,” she said at a post-election rally.
“North Carolina, this is our moment.” Beasley, 56, who will face Republican Rep. Ted Budd, in the general election, moved to North Carolina shortly after graduating law school in Tennessee and made history in 2019 when she became the first Black woman to be chief justice on the state Supreme Court. Rep. Ted Budd , who has Trump’s endorsement in the race, won the Republican nomination for Senate in North Carolina on May 17. Budd in his victory speech immediately went on offense, casting Beasley as a liberal vote for President Biden’s agenda and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer . “My opponent Cheri Beaseley — she doesn’t have any problem with Joe Biden’s agenda, so let’s be clear: Cheri is the most radical, liberal candidate to ever run for U.S. Senate here in North Carolina,” he said Tuesday. “So if we send her to Washington, she would enable every element of Joe Biden’s agenda. And if we think it’s bad now, it’s only going to get worse with Cheri Beaseley in the U.S. Senate.”— The early Senate calls Tuesday night in North Carolina come as quite an anticlimax for two primaries that started out with the potential to be nail-biters. On the Democratic side, former state Supreme Court chief justice Cheri Beasley faced off against state Sen. Jeff Jackson, who pledged to run an energetic grass-roots campaign that drew curious Democrats throughout the state. But Beasley’s institutional support — including from Emily’s List and other national groups eager to back a Black woman in a state where White male Democrats had fallen flat in consecutive Senate races — overwhelmed Jackson, who ended up switching to run for a Charlotte-area House seat. On the GOP side, Rep. Ted Budd emerged from a field that included former congressman Mark Walker and former governor Pat McCrory on the strength of an endorsement from former president Donald Trump and millions of dollars in ad spending from the Club for Growth. While McCrory showed some resilience due to his base of support among establishment Republicans, earned during his years as Charlotte mayor and governor, Budd’s backing from the most powerful forces in modern GOP politics won out.
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