rth Carolina U.S. Senate candidates Congressman Ted Budd, R-NC, and Democrat Cheri Beasley, met Friday for their only debate, focusing on issues including inflation, abortion, legalization of marijuana, and crime.
This year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina is shaping up to be a highly competitive and expensive one — which should surprise no one who’s lived in our state or watched our politics for more than an instant. The John Locke Foundation’s just-released Civitas Poll has the Republican nominee, U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, and...
On Sunday June 12, Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut announced that a group of U.S. senators had reached agreement on a package of gun reforms. Both of North Carolina’s senators, Republicans Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, were part of this bipartisan working group.
ate May that would restrict President Biden from forgiving student loan debt. The bill will not restrict pre-existing federal student loan forgiveness programs like Teacher Loan Forgiveness and Public Service Loan forgiveness.
The first year of the Biden presidency has prompted major swings in job approval ratings for some U.S. senators. But neither of North Carolina’s sitting senators has seen much impact.
UPDATED on Thursday, April 7. The U.S. Senate voted, 53-47, to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Supreme Court. She becomes the court’s 116th justice and the first Black woman to serve on the bench. The confirmation came after a 15-minute delay of waiting for Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, to appear in...
In a video attacking the Biden-Harris administration for open borders and proposed tax increases, on Wednesday morning former N.C. Governor Pat McCrory made it official and became the second high-profile Republican candidate to enter the 2022 U.S. Senate race. The candidates compete to replace three-term Republican U.S. Senator Richard Burr who is retiring from...
While Burr’s vote to convict, shocked many, those who know him best say they were not surprised.
Despite some reasonably good recent months of job gains, North Carolina’s economy is still down some 242,000 jobs from the start of the COVID pandemic.
Few state electorates are closer to the national average in partisanship and ideology than North Carolina’s electorate is.
Richard Burr was reelected to his third term in the U.S. Senate by drawing the votes of a strong majority (64 percent) of white North Carolinians, yes, but also 49 percent of Hispanic North Carolinians.
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