U.S. Senate race getting crowded
Author’s note, Feb. 14, 2022: Here’s one I missed completely. McCrory was the early front-runner, but then obscure U.S. Rep. Ted Budd got Trump’s endorsement. Walker had one foot in the Senate race, another in a House race for an undetermined district through February 2022. The three jockeyed for position. Jackson dropped out before Christmas 2021. As Carolina Journal reported last month, former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in next year’s election. Several of the former chief’s friends confirmed her plans to other media outlets . Three-term incumbent Republican Richard Burr is retiring. Beasley, who lost the election for chief by a few hundred votes to Republican Paul Newby, may be the front-runner. So far, Sen. Jeff Jackson of Mecklenburg County, former state Sen. Erica Smith of Northampton County, and virologist Richard Watkins have said they’re running. Jackson ...