The meeting, one of a continuing in-absentia series of town halls for U.S. Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis, pulled in more than 150 enthusiastic and largely fed up constituents who still manage to ...

In 2022 the state’s other U.S. Senate seat was won by Republican Ted Budd with 50.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat Cheri Beasley who won the nomination after Jeff Jackson dropped out and ...