RALEIGH — Throughout the last month of the 2022 election, most pollsters surveying the race between Republican Ted Budd and Democrat Cheri Beasley showed a close race but a stable lead for Budd. That’s how the race ended up, with final results showing a nearly four-point edge for the three-term U.S. Rep. Budd, who will now move to the U.S. Senate. Their final polls showed a 49%-49% U.S. Senate race, which matched the final results in that state and head to a runoff on Dec. 6., and six-point lead for Gov. Others NC polls that aligned with the final results included October surveys from Emerson College and Marist. In their last poll of the race in October, it showed Budd with just a one point edge over Beasley.