Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) jumped into the crowded 2022 North Carolina Senate race this morning pledging to crush the “liberal agenda” with a monster truck, pass a little capitalism and a big heap o’ freedom, and keep the country from turning into a “woke, socialist wasteland.” With Donald Trump’s help.
This Budd’s for you, and he wants you to know he owns a gun store.
The open seat will be vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr. Former Gov. Pat McCrory and former Rep. Mark Walker are already in the Republican primary.
You have to see the video to believe it.
Apple just announced it would build its $1 billion East Coast hub in the Research Triangle and bring 3,000 tech jobs with it. Just not by Nov. 2022. Still, good luck with the lefty-crushing, Ted.
The Democratic U.S. Senate field also got more crowded yesterday:
Cheri Beasley, the first Black woman to be North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, launched her 2022 Senate campaign on Tuesday, seeking to break another barrier as the state’s first Black senator.
Beasley, 55, has won two statewide judicial elections: for the court of appeals in 2008 and for the Supreme Court in 2014. In 2019, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper appointed her to lead the state’s highest court but she lost her 2020 election to serve a full eight-year term by 401 votes.”
For too many families across North Carolina, the doors of opportunity have been closed,” said Beasley in a video. “They’ve been left behind and ignored for too long. I’m running for Senate because it’s time for that to change.”
Beasley got a recent mention as possible Biden pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. Four other Democrats have already announced, including former N.C. state senator Erica Smith (who lost the 2020 primary to Cal Cunningham) and state Sen. Jeff Jackson.
Beasley has a sterling reputation and believes North Carolina voters have attention spans long enough not to need monster trucks, dogs, and guns to hold their attention.
Bill Busa (DocDawg at Daily Kos) tweets, “I’m starting to like Democrats’ odds in the NC senate race this year. As [Budd’s] campaign video illustrates, Budd, Walker, and McCrory are forced into an atavistic race to the bottom, each driven to prove he’s the most toxic trump-humper. This stuff doesn’t play in the burbs.”