Terence Everitt

Sen. Terence Everitt is an attorney running to defend his Wake County district in the North Carolina Senate after winning one of the most competitive districts in the state in 2024. Terence has been serving in the North Carolina Legislature since 2019, working tirelessly to lower costs for North Carolina families, improve public safety, support our schools, & protect abortion rights. Protecting this district from GOP encroachment is vital for Democrats to build power in North Carolina, and Terence is ready to run the strong campaign needed to defend this seat. 

In 2024, Terence defended this key Democratic seat by less than 200 votes in one of the most competitive races of the year. Now, Terence and North Carolina Democrats are once again going all in to keep Republicans from gaining a single district in the state Senate.

North Carolina is one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country, which has allowed an increasingly out-of-touch Republican legislative majority to cling to power for decades, even as Democrats have won elections statewide. 

In the 2024 elections, Democrats pulled off a major victory by breaking the GOP supermajority in the state House, giving them the power to protect newly-elected Governor Josh Stein’s veto authority. Now, 2026 presents a historic opportunity to gain ground and end the GOP’s gerrymandered supermajorities in both chambers for good.

Democrats in the North Carolina Senate are just one seat away from breaking the GOP supermajority in their chamber, and Democratic candidates in the House are running to put a Republican supermajority even further out of reach. With competitive races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House alongside these legislative races,  the DLCC is all hands on deck to help fund the strong campaigns and infrastructure needed to reach voters and win seats in both chambers in November.