U.S. Senate

U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards ended his reelection bid last week following a House ethics investigation confirming he “violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.” Now, Republicans are left to replace him. We check in with our roundtable of reporters on the latest from Washington and how it could impact North Carolina.

South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham died earlier this month after representing the state for more than 20 years in the U.S. Senate. We look at the candidates vying to fill his seat, examine the power Graham wielded as a senator, and explore what to expect in Congress as the midterm elections approach.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday following what his office said was a brief and sudden illness. We’ll discuss Graham’s leadership in the state and what’s next for filling his seat and his reelection bid. We also get an update on where North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race stands and what it could mean for the balance of power in Congress.

We take a political vibe check on North Carolina by examining what the latest Catawba-YouGov poll shows. We’ll separate signal from noise while discussing what these polls really tell us about the state’s electorate as another consequential election season gets underway.

The United State senators from North Carolina split their votes on a resolution to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a debt default.Ted Budd, the junior senator, voted no, while Thom Tillis, who is in his second term, voted yes.

Former 2022 U.S. Senate candidate Erica Smith has thrown her support in the Senate Democratic primary to ex-Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley. Smith was in the Senate race until about 10 days ago, when she revealed she would instead seek to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield next year.

The agreement could push the fight over how to raise the nation's borrowing limit to December.

Two top campaign officials working to elect North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley have decided to leave the campaign.

In a recent tweet, candidate and former 6th District Congressman Mark Walker slammed one of his opponents, current 13th District Congressman Ted Budd. Walker wrote that Budd voted against a 2018 bill that "helped farmers, invest in rural broadband and added work requirements for able-bodied adults." Did he?

After weeks of talks that often appeared on the verge of collapse, a group of 20 Senate Republicans and Democrats reached agreement on a bill funding roads, bridges, transit projects and broadband.