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Raleigh, North Carolina Congressman Ted Budd might soon be the winner of the quietest swing state Senate race in the country. When North Carolina senator Richard Burr announced he would not seek re-election in this year's midterms, Democrats saw the seat as a potential pick-up to expand their Senate majority. Instead, Budd is polling ahead of his opponent, former North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice Cheri Beasley, by more than six points. Budd closed out his campaign Monday night with an intimate rally at GOP headquarters in Raleigh. It was clear that he had worked long and hard on the trail — he appeared to have dropped a significant amount of weight since his announcement and was on the verge of losing his voice.

Though many pundits may not be able to see past Tuesday’s midterm elections, as soon as the voters decide which party will hold the reins of Congress, the country will witness its first reminder that elections have consequences. The 2022 contests will have a near-instant effect on US fiscal policy. At some point between mid-December and January, the United States will hit its credit limit and need to either increase it or risk defaulting on its financial obligations. Since the Barack Obama years, Republicans in Congress have turned what used to be a pro-forma vote on the debt ceiling into a political cudgel.

College Park, Georgia Former president Barack Obama came down to Georgia stump for Senator Raphael Warnock and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. But more significantly, the 44th president of the United States dedicated a good chunk of his stage time on Friday to mocking Warnock’s opponent Herschel Walker. In a move reminiscent of his 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech — which supposedly provoked Donald Trump to run for the presidency in 2016 — Obama performed a stand-up bit to demonstrate that Walker’s proficiency as a Heisman Trophy-winning football star did not equip him to serve in the US Senate. “Let’s do a thought experiment,” Obama said. “Let’s say you were at the airport, and you see Mr. Walker, and you say, ‘hey!

Welp, so much for the blue wave. That towering electoral tsunami, which was to deluge the midterm races in a soggy detritus of worn masks and Planned Parenthood pamphlets, has given way to a stark reality: 2022 is a Republican year. It was always a Republican year, as some of us have been pointing out. Voters simply weren't about to prioritize third-trimester abortions over rising crime and the price of beef. So it was that Jill Biden this week was dispatched to campaign in Rhode Island. Rhode Island. And while she no doubt made a pitstop at Brown to hobnob with her fellow doctorates, she was mainly there to campaign for endangered Democrats. In Rhode Island. A Democratic congressional PAC, meanwhile, is dumping money into deep-blue New Jersey.

Wes Moore, the Democratic Party's candidate for Maryland governor, wants everyone to know how great he is — and humble, too. Moore is a bestselling author, a former television host, a US Army veteran and has founded or led multiple nonprofit organizations. Cockburn admits it's a stellar résumé for anyone seeking public office — and in heavily blue Maryland, Moore is outraising his Republican opponent Dan Cox ten to one. Unfortunately, it seems Moore's accolades might have gone to his head. In a Friday tweet, Moore bragged about being the first black Rhodes Scholar to graduate from Johns Hopkins University — but insisted he only brings it up because other people ask him about it.