Rep. Ted Budd appears on track to become the Republican Senate nominee in North Carolina, with a cushion that has eluded Donald Trump’s endorsees in the two other competitive GOP Senate primaries being held this month in states the party is defending.
The heated primary next month between two West Virginia incumbents will provide an early sign of former President Donald Trump’s ability to shape the House Republican conference as the party pushes to win control of the chamber.
Several vulnerable Democratic incumbent senators are raking in huge sums for their re-election campaigns, led by Georgia’s Raphael Warnock, who is on pace to bring in a record first-quarter haul.
Republicans are heavily favored to retain the California seat Devin Nunes vacated at the start of the year the only question is whether any of the four can win the seat outright in Tuesday’s first-round special election primary.