Morning Digest: North Carolina Democrat now has a clear Senate primary as GOP keeps slugging it out
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Programming NoteMorning Digest: North Carolina Democrat now has a clear Senate primary as GOP keeps slugging it out
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Programming Note: The final Live Digest of 2021 will be on Friday, while the year's last Morning Digest will be going out Monday. We'll be back in early January! Leading Off ● NC-Sen: State Sen. Jeff Jackson announced Thursday that he was dropping out of the Democratic primary and endorsing former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, a move that leaves Beasley as Team Blue's only major candidate in one of the party's top Senate targets in the nation. No other Democrats have shown any obvious interest in taking on Beasley, so it would be a huge surprise if she had any trouble securing the nomination in the primary, which her former colleagues on the state's highest court moved from March to May due to ongoing litigation over the state's congressional map. Indeed, Beasley picked up an endorsement hours after Jackson's departure from Rep. Deborah Ross, who was the party's Senate nominee in 2016. Republicans, meanwhile, still have an intense and already very expensive intra-party fight ahead of them between former Gov. Pat McCrory and the Trump-backed Rep. Ted Budd. Read more