{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nMichele Morrow was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina in the 2026 election cycle. She lost the March 3, 2026 Republican primary to Michael Whatley, finishing fourth with 5.6% of the vote (35,065 votes) [1].\n\n## Background and education\nMorrow was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and graduated from South Mecklenburg High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 [1].\n\n## Career\nPer her Ballotpedia biography, Morrow's career experience includes work as a nurse, a homeschool educator, and a high school teacher of biology, chemistry, civics, Spanish, and health; she has also served as head nurse of a wilderness camp. She and her husband were missionaries in Mexico for four years [1]. Morrow lists affiliations with Liberty First Grassroots, the Conservative Coalition of NC, FreedomWorks, Education First Alliance, Carolina Teachers Alliance, the Wake GOP, and several other conservative and homeschool-advocacy organizations [1].\n\n## Office history\nMorrow previously ran for a seat on the Wake County Public School System Board of Education in 2022, and for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2024 [1].\n\nAccording to the North Carolina voter file, Morrow is a registered Republican voter in Wake County, North Carolina, registered since 2015, and has voted in 15 elections since 2016, most recently the 2026-03-03 primary [2][3].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Michele Morrow - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Michele_Morrow) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-21 (only substantive source reachable in this research session; WebSearch was out of budget and Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo fetches did not return usable results in this sandbox - a fuller independent-journalism pass is recommended)\n[2] [North Carolina State Board of Elections \u2014 Voter Search](https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/)\n[3] North Carolina State Board of Elections voter history file (`ncvhis_Statewide`), published at [dl.ncsbe.gov](https://dl.ncsbe.gov/)","campaigns":[{"contest":"us_senate","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"general","state":"NC","title":"Us Senate"}],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Michele","fullname":"Michele Marie Morrow","lastname":"Morrow","middlename":"Marie","office_history":[{"campaigns":[{"contest":"us_senate","contest_title":"Us Senate","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":null,"office_key":"us_senate","office_title":"U.S. Senator","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"}],"county":null,"cycles":[{"general":{"contest":"us_senate","contest_title":"Us Senate","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":null,"office_key":"us_senate","office_title":"U.S. Senator","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"},"party":"REP","primary":null,"term":null,"year":2026}],"office_key":"us_senate","office_title":"U.S. Senator","state":"NC","terms":[]}],"summary":"Per the NC voter file: REP voter in Wake County since 2015.","terms":[],"token":"fa9887b5a5cfcf75"}