Backroom deal-making threatened to shake up North Carolina’s Republican Senate primary last week. Now, it’s given way to public brawling.
Negative attacks are ratcheting up in the fight for the open seat.
A 12-page mailer landed in voters’ mailboxes this week calling former Gov. Pat McCrory “fatally flawed” and criticizing his ethics, while TV ads hammered him as a “Trump-hater, liberal faker.”
They’re all paid for by the Club for Growth’s super PAC, part of a multimillion dollar effort to back Ted Budd.
McCrory, in his first interview since the ads started airing, went after the big-money group as Budd’s “bank,” intimating that Budd sold himself to the group “funding his entire political existence.”
“He’s standing on the backs of [a] Washington insiders’ group and endorsements with no record whatsoever,” McCrory said… “My opponent’s vote may be for sale, but mine isn’t.”
The contest’s negative turn… could leave the eventual GOP nominee bloodied and cash-poor ahead of the general election in a state Trump narrowly won twice.
Meanwhile, that fight just got longer… “It’s obviously going to be more expensive” now that the primary will be held in May, said Doug Heye, a longtime Republican strategist.
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