{"id":1478765,"date":"2022-05-17T20:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478765"},"modified":"2022-05-17T20:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:44:54","slug":"trump-endorsed-candidate-ted-budd-wins-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsed-candidate-ted-budd-wins-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Endorsed Candidate Ted Budd Wins Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-endorsed-candidate-ted-budd-wins-senate-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd won the GOP\u2019s Senate primary Tuesday following former\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Budd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/17\/1098065292\/north-carolina-primary-election-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won<\/a> by a landslide with 56% of the vote, earning a total of 144,574 votes. McCroy came in second with 26.8%, Walker at 8.8%. Two other Republican candidates, Marjorie Eastman and David Flaherty, came in last with 3.3% and 1.1%.\u00a0The Republican candidate will compete against Democratic candidate Cheri Beasley, who won the Democratic primary with 84% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Budd led the senatorial GOP primary race in North Carolina by over 20 percentage points, holding 43% of support while opponent and former Gov. Pat McCrory had 16% of support, <a href=\"https:\/\/emersonpolling.reportablenews.com\/pr\/ted-budd-solidifies-frontrunner-status-in-us-senate-gop-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to recent Emerson College\/The Hill polling. Former Rep. Mark Walker stood at about 12%, being the only other candidate in the 14-person Republican field to hold double-digit support, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/campaign\/3486054-budd-surges-in-final-stretch-of-north-carolina-senate-primary-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a> reported May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates in the race are <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/01\/mark-walker-running-richard-burr-north-carolina-senate-seat-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seeking<\/a> to replace three-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr ahead of his upcoming retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Budd, a three-term lawmaker representing the 13th congressional district, first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/28\/north-carolina-senate-race-ted-budd-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> his candidacy in a late April 2021 video, which featured multiple clips of him next to Trump. He received an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/05\/politics\/north-carolina-senate-race-ted-budd-donald-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsement<\/a> from Trump in June 2021 at the state Republican convention in Greenville after the former president\u2019s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, reportedly decided against entering the race.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7429993\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7429993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s somebody in this room that is very special,\u201d the former president said, according to CNN. \u201cThis man is a great politician but more importantly, he loves the state of North Carolina. This gentleman is going to be your next senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/donald-trump-north-carolina-gop-republican-primary-senate-richard-burr-thom-tillis-ted-budd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pushed<\/a> for Walker to drop out of the Senate race, promising to endorse him in a House race in order to make way for Budd, though Walker refused.<\/p>\n<p>Budd also earned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubforgrowth.org\/candidates\/ted-budd-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsement<\/a> of the conservative Club for Growth Super PAC on April 28, 2021, at the start of his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Budd led Democratic<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/16\/democrat-jeff-jackson-drops-out-north-carolina-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Beasely<\/a> by a narrow margin in a hypothetical Senate race, the Emerson College\/The Hill poll found. The hypothetical race had Budd with 48% support and Beasley with 41%. The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between May 7-9 with a 3% margin of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd won the GOP\u2019s Senate primary Tuesday following former\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement.Budd won by a landslide with 56% of the vote, earning a total of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1483491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}