Incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.) has defeated Democratic challenger Deborah Ross, according to an Associated Press projection made just after 10:00 p.m. 
North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross' campaign will give away a donation from a major party donor who was caught on tape calling black Republicans "seriously f***ed in the head," the News & Observer reported Wednesday night. North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross spoke out in defense of a state bar that chose to stop admitting members of the military. 
North Carolina Democrat Deborah Ross will attend a Tuesday night fundraiser at the home of the lawyer who represented one of the five Taliban terrorists that was released from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in 2014. 
North Carolina Democrat Deborah Ross argued privately that the case of a brutal 1994 rape would be a “sympathetic” one to bring to the Supreme Court, according to a confidential memo written by Ross that was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Records unearthed on Friday reveal that Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross once argued for leniency for a teenager convicted in a brutal rape case. As executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina in the months following 9/11, Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross voiced her concern that intelligence agencies were on the verge of becoming “all the more dangerous.” 