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Lara Trump Isn’t Scaring Off Potential Rivals

December 17, 2020 at 7:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The 2022 US Senate race in North Carolina could provide an early test of whether the Republican Party will continue to embrace President Donald Trump after his loss, potentially featuring Lara Trump, the President’s daughter-in-law, against a field of current and former Republican officials unwilling to step aside,” Politico reports.

“Her public interest in the seat has not scared off a number of Senate Republican aspirants, who are driven in part by the alluring prospect of running for an open seat in the first midterm election of a Democratic president, which usually favors the opposing party.”

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Mark Walker Announces North Carolina Senate Bid

December 1, 2020 at 11:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) announce he’ll run for the Senate in a race that may end up becoming the most hotly contested and expensive Senate battle in the 2022 midterm elections, Fox News reports.

“Walker is the first candidate to launch a campaign in the race to succeed retiring three-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr. But it’s doubtful he’ll be the only Republican to declare his or her candidacy. The president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is mulling a bid for the Senate in the state where she was born and raised.”

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Meadows Will Not Run for Senate

November 20, 2020 at 5:21 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who represented far-western North Carolina in the U.S House, said Friday he would not run for U.S. Senate in 2022, the Raleigh News and Observer reports.

Said Meadows: “I love the people of North Carolina. But I not only have no plans, I have no intentions to run for the Senate in 2022.”

He added: “I’ve had a number of people talk about running for that seat, if indeed Sen. Burr retires. My conversations have included some of the sitting House members as well as Lara Trump, and, to my knowledge, no one’s made a definitive decision on whether to toss their hat in the ring or not. But in terms of my hat, it won’t be in the ring.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: NC-Sen

Lara Trump Eyes Senate Bid In North Carolina

November 19, 2020 at 3:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law who emerged during the 2020 presidential campaign as a defender of President Trump’s basest political instincts, is now eyeing a political future of her own in her home state of North Carolina,” the New York Times reports.

“Ms. Trump has been telling associates she is considering a run for Senate in 2022, in what is expected to be a competitive race for the first open Senate seat in a very swingy swing state in a generation. Sen. Richard Burr, an unobtrusive Republican legislator who was thrust into the spotlight as chairman of a committee investigating the president’s ties to Russia, has said he will retire at the end of his term.”

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Cunningham Expands Lead In North Carolina

October 12, 2020 at 4:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new SurveyUSA poll in North Carolina finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in the U.S. Senate race by 10 points, 49% to 39%.

Cunningham was up by seven points in the September poll.

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Husband Calls for Investigation Into Cunningham’s Affair

October 7, 2020 at 4:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The husband of the woman who confirmed an extramarital affair with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham said he should drop out of the North Carolina race,” the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

Said Jeremy Todd: “Mr. Cunningham chose to repeatedly engage in activities that would hurt his family and a fellow junior officer and veteran… I firmly believe Mr. Cunningham should drop out of the Senate race and ask that his behavior and actions be reviewed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”

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Text Messages Roil North Carolina Senate Race

October 6, 2020 at 5:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Associated Press obtained new text messages between Arlene Guzman Todd and a friend, describing how she was intimate with married North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham (D).

In the text messages to her friend, Guzman Todd told her she was intimate with Cunningham in his home, which she characterized as “weird.”

In another exchange, Guzman Todd indicated that she was frustrated by the limited attention that he showed her: “I’m just going to send to his opponent his naked photos. That will teach him.”

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Cunningham Still Leads Despite Sexting Scandal

October 6, 2020 at 5:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll in North Carolina finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 42%.

Cunningham last week issued a public apology after sending sexually themed text messages to a woman who is not his wife.

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North Carolina Senate Race Unaffected by Recent News

October 5, 2020 at 2:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Public Policy Polling survey finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, 48% to 42%.

The news that Cunningham was sending sexually explicit texts to a woman who was not his wife is having somewhat of an impact on Cunningham’s favorability rating, with 37% saying they have a positive opinion of him to 39% with a negative one. But that -2 net favorability rating is still 21 points better than Tillis’ — he’s at -23 with 31% of voters having a favorable opinion of him to 54% with an unfavorable one.

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Cal Cunningham Admits to Sexting with Strategist

October 3, 2020 at 7:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham (D) “admitted to sending intimate text messages to a woman who is not his wife — but said he would not drop out of one of the key races that will determine which party controls the Senate next year,” Politico reports.

“Cunningham sent several text messages to a woman in which the two discussed kissing and hypothetically spending the night together.”

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Biden Holds Small Edge in North Carolina

September 3, 2020 at 11:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Monmouth poll in North Carolina finds Joe Biden just ahead of Donald Trump in the presidential race, 47% to 45%.

“Under a likely voter scenario with a somewhat higher level of turnout than 2016, Biden stands at 48% support and Trump is at 46%. The results are an identical 48% to 46% when using a likely voter model with lower turnout. Each of the last three presidential elections were decided by fewer than four percentage points in North Carolina.”

In the U.S. Senate race, Cal Cunningham (D) edges Sen. Thom Tillis (R), 46% to 45%.

Said pollster Patrick Murray: “North Carolina has been in play for each of the last three presidential elections and it is going to be that way again this year, especially with a pivotal Senate race sharing the ballot.”

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Tillis Apologizes for Not Wearing Mask at Trump Speech

August 28, 2020 at 4:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said in a statement that he “fell short of his own standard,” by choosing not to wear a face mask at President Trump’s Republican convention acceptance speech, Axios reports.

The apology came after challenger Cal Cunningham put out this statement: “Tillis apparently sets a different standard for himself. He was captured maskless in Washington Thursday surrounded by nearly 1,000 other people, most of whom were also not wearing masks or social distancing, after posting a photo to Twitter wearing a mask.”

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Cunningham Holds Solid Lead In North Carolina

July 24, 2020 at 1:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 40%.

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Cunningham Holds Lead In North Carolina

July 21, 2020 at 8:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Cardinal Point Analytics poll in North Carolina finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) by three points, 47% to 44%.

In the presidential race, Donald Trump edges Joe Biden by one point, 49% to 48%.

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Tillis Claims Hispanics Less Likely to Wear Masks

July 17, 2020 at 5:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) suggested Hispanics are less likely to wear masks and social distance amid the coronavirus pandemic, CNN reports.

Said Tillis, who is up for reelection this year, was caught on audio: “Just wear the mask out of respect. Now I will tell you I’m not a scientist and I’m not a statistician, but one of the concerns that we’ve had more recently is that the Hispanic population now constitutes about 44% of the positive cases, and we do have some concerns that in the Hispanic population we’ve seen less consistent adherence to social distancing and wearing a mask.”

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Bonus Quote of the Day

July 13, 2020 at 11:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The stakes are very high this election, but you know why I know we’re going to win? Because people remember how good their lives were back in February.”

— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), speaking at the virtual North Carolina Republican convention.

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Thom Tillis’ Campaign Lifts Ed Gillespie’s Strategy Memo

June 15, 2020 at 2:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Thom Tillis’ (R-NC) campaign spokesman acknowledged on Friday that he had copied large portions of a general election strategy memo from a similar document he had put together while working on Ed Gillespie’s (R) Virginia gubernatorial campaign in 2017, the Daily Beast reports.

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Tillis Distances Himself from Burr

May 14, 2020 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is up for re-election this year, distanced himself from Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), who is under investigation for insider trading, in a WBT radio interview.

Said Tillis: “Senator Burr does owe all of us an explanation and this is clear evidence that an investigation is underway. We need to see where the investigation leads.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: NC-Sen

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