North Carolina’s Under-the-Radar Race Between Budd and Beasley Staying Tight

North Carolina GOP candidate for Senate, Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), celebrates his Republican nomination at a primary election night watch party at Kinderton in Bermuda Run, N.C., on May 17, 2022. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

The race between Ted Budd and Cheri Beasley for North Carolina’s open Senate seat has stayed tight as it enters the last week.

It’s a competition that hasn’t gotten the attention that Senate races in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, or Arizona have, but maybe it should have.