Travis Brimm Lands in North Carolina.

Ned Lamont’s former campaign-manager-in-waiting, Travis Brimm, left Connecticut Democrats for a North Carolina U.S. Senate campaign. Brimm will be managing Cheri Beasley’s bid for her party’s nomination in what is expected to be one of the nation’s marquee 2022 races.

Beasley lost her 2020 bid for re-election as chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court by 401 votes out of nearly 5.4 million cast. Beasley became the first Black woman to hold the court’s top job when Governor Roy Cooper elevated her from associate justice in 2019.