U.S. Senate candidates Ted Budd and Cheri Beasley met on the debate stage for the first time Friday and discussed the former and current presidents, where they stand on policy issues and who was actually elected to the White House in 2020.
Budd, the Republican nominee and a current member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Beasley, the Democratic nominee and the state’s former Supreme Court chief justice, had avoided all debates in 2022 until now.
The candidates agreed to meet for one debate, on Spectrum News 1, a subscription cable network that made the debate public on its website and app. The debate was moderated by political reporter Tim Boyum.
