Meet the Libertarian Who May Swing the Senate

North Carolina Republicans fear that pizza deliveryman Sean Haugh will ruin their Senate campaign. He says they've already lost it.

Libertarian candidate, Sean Haugh, is running for the US Senate from North Carolina. His campaigning is done through videos that are filmed and produced by his campaign manager, Rachel Mills (not pictured).
Photo by Megan Morr/For the Washington Post

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By David Weigel

October 7, 2014 at 2:20 PM UTC

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"I have a shot at winning this race," says Sean Haugh. "Thom Tillis does not."

North Carolina's Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate is talking to me between bites of an apple pastry in a coffee shop near the NC State campus, in Raleigh. It's October 1, and I've just driven from an event where the aforementioned loser – state House Speaker Thom Tillis, the Republican candidate for Senate – campaigned with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Tillis has been been hosting any Republican star who would have him, from Jeb Bush to Lindsey Graham to a senator who could not be further, ideologically, from those guys.