REMINDER: Ted Budd Hosting Fundraiser With Election Deniers Tonight | North Carolina Democratic Party

This night in Southern Pines, Congressman Ted Budd is “thrilled” to host a fundraiser with Cleta Mitchell, “a lady integral in scheming with former President Donald Trump to attempt to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.” It’s no shock that somebody who referred to as insurrectionists “just patriots standing up” feels “nice” concerning the occasion and would “embrace” campaigning with a peddler of election fraud.

The Information & Observer Editorial Board referred to as his resolution “troubling” and urged voters to do not forget that, regardless of his finest effort to “strategically keep away from discuss” of the revolt, he’s “nonetheless courting election deniers in non-public.”

That is one more instance of how far out of the mainstream Ted Budd is for North Carolina. 

• Information & Observer: Ted Budd’s troubling embrace of a Trump co-conspirator — ”The selection to miss threats to our democracy is a risk in and of itself, and it extends far past North Carolina. Budd is only one of many Republicans who’re treating felony makes an attempt to overturn the election — in addition to an tried coup — as one thing far much less dire than it really was. What Trump did, what Mitchell supported and what occurred on Jan. 6 ought to by no means be normalized. The previous two years have proven that faithfulness to Trump and faithfulness to our nation are sometimes mutually unique. Voters ought to consider carefully about which one Budd is extra seemingly to decide on.”
• Charlotte Observer: Trump adviser who tried to overturn election hosts NC fundraiser for US Senate candidate — ”A girl integral in scheming with former President Donald Trump to attempt to overturn the 2020 election outcomes is now internet hosting a fundraiser for a U.S. Senate candidate in North Carolina. Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell, a resident of Pinehurst who has been repeatedly talked about all through Jan. 6, 2021, information protection and committee hearings in Congress, is internet hosting a fundraiser on Aug. 15 for Rep. Ted Budd. Budd is operating to exchange retiring Sen. Richard Burr. ‘We’re nice with it,’ stated Jonathan Felts, senior adviser to Budd.”

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