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Republican Ted Budd defeats Democrat Cheri Beasley for U.S. Senate in North Carolina

Excerpt: The 2022 North Carolina Senate highlighted a race between a long term member of the state judiciary versus a hard right Republican House member who supports a fifteen week national ban on abortion.
Written by:Rich Erwin
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Scramble for the Senate: The results are in; here’s how the candidates and parties fared

Excerpt: Although the Democrats made gains, control of the upper chamber of Congress will not be decided until January of 2021.
Written by:Ruairi Vaughan
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No Senate upsets behind Trump’s southern firewall

Excerpt: As antic­i­pat­ed going into Elec­tion Day, many of the Sen­ate seats up for reelec­tion were expect­ed to be Safe Repub­li­can. Out of a total of 34 seats, 24 are held by Repub­li­cans. This might seem like a big oppor­tu­ni­ty for Democ­rats inter­est­ed in hav­ing a Con­gress sym­pa­thet­ic to the poten­tial Clin­ton agen­da, but many of […]
Written by:Greg Evans
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Paul Ryan keeps invoking Bernie Sanders to rile up his base, delighting Bernie’s team

Excerpt: Bernie Sanders and his team are cer­tain­ly hav­ing a ban­ner week. While the Ver­mont Sen­a­tor trav­els the coun­try cam­paign­ing for Hillary Clin­ton, his team has been work­ing to ful­ly cap­i­tal­ize on Paul Ryan’s recent attempts to rile up his right wing base by invok­ing Sanders as a bogeyman. Team Sanders has respond­ed by send­ing out a […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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