In unofficial results from Tuesday's general election, Democrat North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has won the race for North Carolina’s next governor with 54.8% (3,036,034) of the vote, easily beating his Republican opponent Mark Robinson with 40.1% (2,224,955), a 15-point difference.
Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is demanding an apology from Democrat State Sen. Rachel Hunt for running an ad that he says was racist.
With the exception of the gubernatorial and superintendent races, the polling spreads for statewide offices are smaller than the margin of error.
Questions are being raised about why State Sen. Rachel Hunt, Mecklenburg, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s lieutenant governor’s race decided to pull out of the only debate scheduled between her and Republican candidate Hal Weatherman.
One of the most cost-effective political expenditures of the 2024 cycle will be a series of four televised debates featuring candidates for statewide posts.
Most Americans haven’t fully digested the historic events of the past two months. Perhaps more such twists in the presidential race are coming.
After celebrating his victory Tuesday night, North Carolina lieutenant governor nominee Hal Weatherman said he would hit the road once again on Wednesday, ready to take on his general election opponent Democrat state Sen. Rachel Hunt.
Hal Weatherman was victorious over his second primary opponent Jim O’Neill on Tuesday for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in North Carolina. With more than two-thirds of precincts reporting on Tuesday night Weatherman had 76% of the vote compared to O’Neill’s 23.8%.
While State Sen. Rachel Hunt cruised to victory in her bid for the North Carolina Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, it may be a while before the Republican nominee is known as no one met the 30% threshold to clinch the nomination on Tuesday.
North Carolina will punch above its weight in 2024 when it comes to political significance. As noted last year by U.S. News and World Report: “From the race for president down the ticket to agriculture commissioner, a uniquely competitive political environment assures the state will be one of the centers of the political universe in...
It goes without saying that North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes for president will, as usual, be heavily contested next year by the two major-party nominees, who are presumed to be Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump. I’m not yet ready to accept that presumption, by the way. I think it’s possible, for example, that...
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