A Sexting Scandal Puts a Politician in the Hot Seat
Cal Cunningham’s indiscretion will test whether voters still care about the character of their elected officials in the age of Trump.
The whole point of Cal Cunningham was that he was supposed to be boring. The North Carolina Democrat is not the most dynamic campaigner, but polls have consistently given him a lead over the Republican incumbent, Thom Tillis, in the race for U.S. Senate.
Now that lead is up in the air. On Thursday, a revealed texts between Cunningham, a married father of two, and a Democratic strategist. The texts are less racy than, say, joggy; true to form for Cunningham, they’re rather dull. “Would make my day to roll over and kiss you about now,” he wrote in one. Cunningham that the texts were real, apologized,
