But the more lasting implications of the election might be found in races for governor and secretary of state around the country, where many Republican candidates have endorsed Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ and threaten to overturn the will of the people in the 2024 election.” Democratic candidates have won only one Senate race in the last two decades and only four in the last half century in North Carolina, says Pope “Mac” McCorkle, a professor of the practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy.