Democrat Cheri Beasley Sees 'Incredible Opportunity' In North Carolina
“This is going to be one of the toughest races of 2022,” candidate says
Cheri Beasley of North Carolina said that, with her candidacy, she sees an “incredible opportunity” for her party to pick up a Senate seat from a state which has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 2009.
An attorney and jurist who served as the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2019 to 2020, Beasley is running for the seat opening up with the retirement of Republican Sen Richard Burr.
“Democrats in North Carolina are uniting to focus our efforts on defeating whichever Republican is nominated for this seat. This month, my Democratic opponents State Senators Jeff Jackson and Erica Smith both ended their campaigns and endorsed our campaign,” Beasley said in a fundraising email to supporters.
“This is an incredible opportunity for Democrats in North Carolina. There is ongoing ‘public brawling' in the Republican primary between failed former Governor Pat McCrory and Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate Rep. Ted Budd,” she added.
North Carolina has turned blue occasionally in recent years, with President Barack Obama winning the state in 2008 along with Sen Kay Hagan the same year. And Gov Roy Cooper has, likewise, seen success as the first candidate in Tar Heel State history to defeat an incumbent in 2016 and going on to win reelection in 2020.
However, North Carolina Democrats have not fared so well elsewhere, as Hagan faced defeat for a second term in 2014 at the hands of Republican Thom Tillis.
“This is going to be one of the toughest races of 2022. CNN has named this as one of three seats ‘most likely to flip’ to Democrats in 2022, and a recent poll of our general election showed our campaign within 1-2% of either of Republicans’ likely nominees,” Beasley said.
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