Lauch Faircloth, Rep. Richard Burr, and former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot, who unsuccessfully ran for governor last year.

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Only three incumbents went down to defeat that year: Al D'Amato (R-NY), Lauch Faircloth (R-NC) and Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL).

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Only two other GOP Senate seats appear at serious risk: Al D'Amato in New York and Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina.

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Lauch Faircloth, a southern Republican in the Helms mold who was defeated in his bid for a second term by Democrat John Edwards in 1998.

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Edwards was a hugely successful trial lawyer when he took on and beat Sen Lauch Faircloth (R) in 1998, in his first run for public office.

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Two, you have Lauch Faircloth, the former U.S. senator who lost his re-election bid to Democrat John Edwards in 1998, and three, there is Richard Burr, a 44-year-old member of Congress who is considered one of the rising Republican stars in North Carolina.

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