Mr Burr and Senator Thom Tillis both voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, while Mr Tillis and Texas Senator John Cornyn helped negotiate the bipartisan gun bill with Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Governor Roy Cooper nominated Ms Beasley to serve as chief justice, but in 2020, she narrowly lost her bid to win the seat by 401 votes in the same year that President Joe Biden lost the state, as did Cal Cunningham in his senate race against Mr Tillis. Mr Trump beat Mr Biden by slightly less than he beat Hillary Clinton but Mr Cooper, the Democratic governor, won re-election that year.