{"id":15047,"date":"2021-01-27T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:17:27","slug":"nc-state-sen-jeff-jackson-enters-2022-u-s-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;NC State Sen. Jeff Jackson Enters 2022 U.S. Senate Race&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/post\/nc-state-sen-jeff-jackson-enters-2022-us-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\">WUNC<\/a>: &#8220;Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte business attorney, Afghan war veteran and National Guard soldier, unveiled his bid, saying he is committed to &#8220;honest and decent politics&#8221; and &#8220;working people and working families.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson, 38, is  the second Democrat to enter the race to succeed three-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who is not seeking reelection. Erica Smith, a former state senator who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2020 to challenge Republican incumbent Thom Tillis, is in again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tillis ultimately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-virus-outbreak-senate-elections-sex-scandals-north-carolina-53bce00325ae1183cfd01cc5111e0a2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowly defeated<\/a>&nbsp;Democrat Cal Cunningham in November. Those two campaigns and outside groups spent $287 million combined, an all-time record before the two Georgia Senate elections that went to Jan. 5 runoffs swamped that total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast with North Carolina&#8217;s hyper-nationalized Senate race in 2020, Jackson said he&#8217;ll attempt to turn his campaign inward, by pledging to visit all 100 counties as the coronavirus pandemic has subsided. He said he&#8217;ll hold town halls in each to &#8220;build an agenda that&#8217;s actually tailored to our state, not an agenda that&#8217;s imported from D.C. or from donors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People want a different approach. They want an approach that they can respect and one that respects them,&#8221; he said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZT-8dC9KMbY&amp;feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video&nbsp;<\/a>that features his wife and three young children. &#8220;Look, folks, you should have higher expectations for this office than you currently do.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUNC: &#8220;Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte business attorney, Afghan war veteran and National Guard soldier, unveiled his bid, saying he is committed to &#8220;honest and decent politics&#8221; and &#8220;working people and working families.&#8221; Jackson, 38, is the second Democrat to enter the race to succeed three-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who is not seeking reelection. Erica&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15145,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}