{"id":1722455,"date":"2022-11-03T05:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722455"},"modified":"2022-11-03T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:03:47","slug":"why-no-ones-talking-about-this-swing-state-senate-race-that-could-determine-the-balance-of-power-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-no-ones-talking-about-this-swing-state-senate-race-that-could-determine-the-balance-of-power-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Why No One\u2019s Talking About This Swing-State Senate Race That Could Determine the Balance of Power in Washington"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fwhy-no-ones-talking-about-this-swing-state-senate-race-that-could-determine-the-balance-of-power-in-washington%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=1722455&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>RALEIGH, N.C.\u2014&#8221;We are so excited about Dave Matthews!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cheri Beasley, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, is doing her best to rally the party&#8217;s base. It&#8217;s a Tuesday night in the state capital, and hundreds of college-educated white millennials and Gen Xers are definitely excited to see Dave Matthews perform at this DNC-sponsored event exactly two weeks before the 2022 midterms. (Matthews, 55, is best known for releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MNgJBIx-hK8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7gXuYFih6Y8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">album<\/a> several weeks before the 1994 midterms.)<\/p>\n<p>The near-capacity crowd grows restless, nursing local IPAs, as the candidate\u00a0rattles off some talking points about everything &#8220;at stake&#8221; in this election: abortion rights, climate change, &#8220;safe communities.&#8221; Whatever that means. (Beasley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/as-judge-cheri-beasley-wanted-lighter-sentence-for-career-criminal-who-possessed-weapon-of-mass-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record<\/a> as state Supreme Court justice and her willingness to associate with radical &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/top-north-carolina-law-enforcement-group-abandons-cheri-beasley-citing-democrats-embrace-of-defund-the-police-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defund the police<\/a>&#8221; activists suggests an expansive definition of the term.) Her abbreviated stump speech does not mention inflation but concludes on an inspirational note: &#8220;Things can get worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthews takes the stage. The multi-multi-millionaire understands\u00a0these middle-aged professionals and their bespoke anxieties. He rants semi-coherently about Republicans, denouncing their supporters as bigoted freaks. He wonders why we can&#8217;t just get along. With great privilege comes tremendous guilt. &#8220;I&#8217;m doing good, but I don&#8217;t want to feel bad about it,&#8221; he complains.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd goes wild.<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans have never heard of Cheri Beasley or her GOP opponent, Rep. Ted Budd, a gun-store owner from Davie County outside Winston-Salem first elected in 2016. The two candidates are running to succeed Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.), who is retiring after three terms in office. It&#8217;s a race that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate for the second half of President Joe Biden&#8217;s first (and probably last) term in office, but the national media aren&#8217;t paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>That is almost certainly by design. Both parties nominated generic candidates unlikely to make headlines. No celebrity doctors. No hulking stroke victims in cargo shorts who\u00a0speak with the coherence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-miss-south-carolina-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teenage beauty queen<\/a> explaining (and embodying) the failures of our education system. No eccentric football legends betraying the black community by running against a Democrat. No 2024 contenders who might disrupt former president Donald Trump&#8217;s path to the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Beasley is not a self-appointed media darling like Stacey Abrams. Budd was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ltthompso\/status\/1587973221210537984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> by the Lincoln Project for\u00a0neglecting &#8220;the people of Wisconsin.&#8221; He does\u00a0not provoke national journalists and other Democratic activists into fits of convulsive rage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C.\u2014&#8221;We are so excited about Dave Matthews!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Why No One\u2019s Talking About This Swing-State Senate Race That Could Determine the Balance of Power in Washington appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1722462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722455","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}