The Democratic candidate for Senate from North Carolina, Cal Cunningham, sent repeated suggestive texts and held at least one intimate encounter in an extramarital relationship that continued through at least July, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
Cunningham, a married father of two and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, has been locked in a tight race with current North Carolina senator Thom Tillis, a Republican, as Democrats attempt to flip the Senate in their favor.
the race was upended last week after the conservative publication NationalFile.com reported that Cunningham exchanged extramarital sexts with Arlene Guzman Todd, a public relations strategist from California.
The two engaged in an intimate encounter in July, Guzman Todd confirmed in an interview with the AP. The outlet also reported previously undisclosed messages between them.
Guzman Todd texted friends to say she had the intimate encounter with Cunningham at his home in North Carolina, and that the experience was “weird.” She also complained that the candidate paid her too little attention.
“I just want to [expletive] him one last time and break his heart,” Guzman Todd wrote.
“A few months back, I displayed a lapse in judgment by engaging in a relationship with Cal Cunningham during a period of marital separation,” Guzman Todd said in a statement.
She apologized for the “pain and embarrassment, and disrespect I’ve caused to my immediate family, loved ones, and everyone affected by this situation.”
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