Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/27/19

 A North Carolina Democratic legislator is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican incumbent Thom Tillis. State Sen. Erica Smith, from Northampton County in the northeast, announced her 2020 bid to unseat Tillis on Saturday through social media and at a Democratic Party gathering in Charlotte. Smith is a math instructor and ordained minister first elected to the legislature in 2014.

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