Long ago it became apparent to me that Gov. Roy Cooper either does not care about his place in history or thinks his actions during the pandemic are enough for historians to write something of substance about his eight years as governor. Because other than managing the virus with debatable results, there is almost nothing...
If Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley can’t come up with a better answer on crime, then her campaign may stall before she gets out of the general election gate. Senate Republicans have launched another ad scorching Beasley as soft on crime based on her rulings as a state Supreme Court Justice. The new $1.7...
The Beasley campaign overstates the Beasley record and removing the ad will do nothing to address Beasley’s record on crime, which is going to be used like a sledgehammer against her.
Bo Hines knows he has a different kind of campaign in front of him to win North Carolina’s most competitive congressional district. 3th District. He tells CJ he plans on spending the summer winning over voters one at a time, including the more than 6 in 10 GOP voters that did not support him in the primary.
North Carolina’s primary produced similar headlines across the state. Former President Trump’s influence in North Carolina clearly matters. However, there is much more to unpack in the primary post-game report. Overall, 758,000 people voted a GOP ballot in the primary election. That’s 146,000 more than the 612,000 who voted a Democrat ballot.
Next week voters will finally decide which Republicans and which Democrats will be on the general election ballot. As part of the important spring cleaning at “The Woodshed” here are some final thoughts going into the primary day, and what we will be watching. The Delay Hurt Voters It is hard to identify exactly what races...
A Democrat, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman is being targeted by groups in the progressive wing of her party who want to institute some of the liberal criminal justice reform policies that have plagued cities across the country.
news in the Tarheel state has nothing to do with the primary elections. As reported by Carolina Journal, the latest Civitas Poll show an absolute political crisis for North Carolina Democrats they are virtually powerless to address.
As we head towards the primary, campaign finance reports showing how the candidates did in the first three months of the year are now being posted. Here is a rundown of some of the most closely-watched races. U.S. Senate After a week of difficult polling news showing him trailing Congressman Ted Budd, former Governor Pat...
Congressman Ted Budd just finished his second-best week of the primary election with a wave of public opinion surveys showing him surging in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate and a high-profile rally with former President Trump. Then to top it off, Budd received the endorsement of the most popular state-based Republican, Lt. Gov. Mark...
An internal memo obtained by Carolina Journal claims Chuck Edwards, candidate for North Carolina’s far western 11th Congressional District, has some momentum toward defeating incumbent U.S. Representative Madison Cawthorn. The memo shows polling data from Edwards’ campaign pollster Glen Bolger with Public Opinion Strategies, a three‑time winner of the “Republican Pollster of the Year.” The memo references...
