{"id":11052,"date":"2025-07-07T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/don-davis-eyes-open-north-carolina-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:02:27","slug":"don-davis-eyes-open-north-carolina-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/don-davis-eyes-open-north-carolina-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Davis eyes open North Carolina Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democratic Rep. Don Davis is exploring a run for the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, according to a spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Davis is “looking at all options and not ruling anything out,” said the spokesperson, Hannah Spengler. But running for the Senate seat would mean giving up a competitive House seat in a district won by President Donald Trump last year. Davis narrowly won reelection last year, and Republicans have signaled they’ll try to flip the seat again this cycle. <\/p>\n

Former Rep. Wiley Nickel is already running on the Democratic side, and former Gov. Roy Cooper, who remains popular in North Carolina, also looms large over the race<\/a>. He’s expected to make a decision this summer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Among Republicans, Lara Trump \u2014 the president’s daughter-in-law and a Wilmington native \u2014 is looking at the race, as are RNC Chair Michael Whatley and Rep. Pat Harrigan.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters Monday, North Carolina’s other Republican senator \u2014 Ted Budd \u2014 said the GOP has a “great bench” and said Lara Trump would be a “very viable” candidate given her ties to the state: “If she wants it we would of course be supportive,” he said.<\/p>\n

“When you look at those outside the political realm that possibly want to run, you look at those that are in the U.S. House, you got a lot of good candidates there, so who knows how this will shake out?” Budd added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic Rep. Don Davis is exploring a run for the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, according to a spokesperson. Davis is “looking at all options and not ruling anything out,” said the spokesperson, Hannah Spengler. But running for the Senate seat would mean giving up a competitive House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}