Everybody, it's David Pluff. Welcome to Campaign HQ. We're now in the middle of October,

so Election Day is certainly looming. And we are going to spend our time today and

move our attention to North Carolina. A state that many of you have got to know through

the years is it's been a battleground presidential state, you know, some really tight center

races, and a really important state again. It's the only state with a marquee center

race that doesn't have a governor's race. Governors here are not elected in presidential

years, so you may remember Governor Cooper won reelection in a tough race in 2020 as Joe

Biden, you know, narrowly lost the state. So we're going to focus on the United States

center race today. Sherry Beasley versus Bud, which is a really close tied race, about

45, 45 roughly in most of the public polling. So we're going to talk to Travis Brem, who

is the campaign manager for Sherry Beasley. Travis's longtime Democratic operative spent

last cycle in New Mexico with Senator Lujan, has spent time at some of the national party

committees, has spent a lot of time fundraising. That's kind of where his started politics came

from. So we're going to go deep into the center race, which doesn't get as much attention

as, you know, maybe the Arizona race or the Georgia race or the Pennsylvania race in

part because Bud is kind of running a very secretive closeted campaign compared to some

of these marquee folks like Walker and Oz and Masters, but it's a close race. And North

Carolina has his historically been close. We're going to get an overview of the entire

state from Will Doran from the news and observer, who's covered North Carolina politics for

a long time. And there's a lot of other things going on in North Carolina. We're going

to talk to Will about this US center race, but we're also going to talk to him about the

state legislative races. And North Carolina has partisan races for the Supreme Court. So

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