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Budd wins the North Carolina Senate Race //

Ted Budd, who represented North Carolina in Congress since 2017, will join Senate to succeed Richard Burr (a fellow Republican who is retiring from three terms).

Budd won 50.7% of the vote, compared to Cheri Beasley’s 47.1%.

Budd, 51, a Trump-endorsed candidate, championed spending cuts in his capacity as a member the House Freedom Caucus. He called lawmakers’ pork barrel project an “extravagant wastage of taxpayer dollars”

Budd, currently representing North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District is a strong advocate for strong border security. He also supported legislation to increase penalties against illegal immigrants who reenter this country after being expelled.

Former Gov. Budd was defeated. Budd defeated former Gov.

Budd was born on a family farm near Winston-Salem in North Carolina. He received a business degree at Appalachia State university. He also holds master’s degrees at Wake Forest University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and other universities.

He owns a gun shop in Rural Hall, North Carolina, and has spoken out against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “enacting firearm confiscation schemes” instead of focusing on criminals.


Ken McIntyre contributed this report.


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