Pat McCrory

Former Charlotte Mayor and North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory lost on election night in the GOP primary for the state's open U.S. Senate seat. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, wonders what else McCrory has lost along the way.

Pat McCrory, former Charlotte mayor and North Carolina governor, lost to Rep. Ted Budd in the Republican U.S. Senate primary Tuesday.

North Carolina Republican U.S. Senate candidates Ted Budd and Pat McCrory remained neck-and-neck with their campaigns’ own fundraising entering the final weeks before the May 17 primary.

Once again, we're checking a statement between Republican rivals in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race. Rep. Ted Budd said former Gov. Pat McCrory appointed a GOP judge who "sided with Democrats" in a ruling deciding North Carolina's new political maps. That's misleading, a fact-checker says.

In a recent ad, former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory accuses Rep. Ted Budd, one of his opponents in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, of being sympathetic toward Russia and its invasion of Ukraine. But McCrory took Budd's words out of context, a fact-checker says.

The Republican primary for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat is heating up. Former Gov. Pat McCrory is the subject of an attack ad that used spliced-together quotes from his old radio show to make it sound like he condemned supporters of former President Trump while defending Black Lives Matter protesters. A fact-checker says that's misleading.

Former Gov. Pat McCrory accused one of his U.S. Senate opponents, Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, of "ripping off farmers," and suggested Budd used money that was owed to farmers to pay for attack ads criticizing him. Is he correct?

The complaint the Southern Coalition for Social Justice brought forward in 2017 could pave the way for lawmakers and their supporters to be penalized for making inaccurate voter fraud claims in future elections. Pat McCrory lost the 2016 gubernatorial race in North Carolina.

Rep. Ted Budd has been playing defense since getting former President Donald Trump's endorsement in North Carolina's GOP Senate primary. Budd is one of three leading candidates looking to keep an open U.S. Senate seat in Republican hands.

Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley and ex-Gov. Pat McCrory brought in the most money in their respective Democratic and Republican primary bids for an open 2022 U.S. Senate seat, new campaign finance reports show.