07-08-2025
Local minister will run for Senate
HIGH POINT — Local minister Orrick Quick has announced that he will run for the U.S. Senate in next year's elections.
Quick, who previously has run for seats on the High Point City Council, will seek the Democratic Party nomination. He announced his Senate campaign in a Facebook post late Wednesday afternoon.
'It's time for change,' Quick says in his post. 'It's time to have more godly men in Washington.'
The 2026 U.S. Senate race will be for an open seat since Republican Sen. Thom Tillis announced earlier this year that he won't seek another term. Political analysts say that the Democratic front-runner is former governor Roy Cooper.
Party primaries will take place this March to narrow races for the general election on Nov. 3, 2026.
Quick said he is running because he is disturbed by what is transpiring under the current set of leaders at the Capitol and the fallout from the 'big, beautiful bill.'
'We don't need to be reckless with someone else's lives,' he said.
On his campaign website, the Quick campaign bills him as 'a Democrat guided by faith, fighting for working families, protecting life and bringing principled leadership to Washington.'
Quick serves as pastor at New Covenant Church and said he has acted on his faith by volunteering for 13 years teaching Bible study at a local nursing home.
His campaign platform includes supporting legislation to protect and aid older adults, defending the Constitution and due process rights and supporting programs that defend and help people in need.
Quick graduated from T. Wingate Andrews High School and earned a degree at North Carolina State University, where he played linebacker on the football team.
