The runoff election for the Republican nomination in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District race is heating up as both candidates work to align themselves with former President Donald Trump.
For all the obvious and consequential differences between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, on one issue the two have much in common. Both the current and former administrations have employed tariffs and other restrictions to help special interests at the expense of average North Carolinians and their counterparts in other states. When Trump was in...
A Stokes County attorney and businessman has dropped his lawsuit aiming to guarantee the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ authority to block Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot. Brian Martin filed a notice of voluntary dismissal Wednesday in Wake County Superior Court.
In the tumultuous landscape of American politics, few stories encapsulate the complexities of ambition, loyalty, and democracy quite like that of former Congressman Mark Walker, a Triad-area Republican who just declined to pursue a runoff in the NC-6 congressional race. Walker’s political odyssey began in 2014, when he emerged as a dark-horse candidate in North...
If North Carolina voters were casting their ballots for president and governor today, the Republican candidates would handily win, according to the latest results from the Carolina Journal poll.
Late last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) accepted the resignation of chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and subsequently elected Michael Whatley, current chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, to lead the GOP into the 2024 elections. It is a boon for North Carolina Republicans, whose success has clearly been recognized on the national stage; but...
“On November 5th we have to get the worst president in the history of America the hell out of office,” bellowed Trump at a rally in Greensboro Saturday afternoon. “We have to tell him, “Joe, You’re fired! Get the hell out Joe!”” Donald Trump appeared before large crowds in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex Saturday as...
Hundreds of Nikki Haley supporters filed into Union Station in downtown Raleigh on Saturday afternoon
I can’t be the only one who loves a good debate. During election seasons past, I’d get as excited for a big debate as others do for a major sporting event. But there has been a sharp drop in candidates willing to participate in a classic, no-holds-barred verbal rumble. Starting at the top, former-President Donald...
This Thursday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, involving whether or not Section 3 of the 14th Amendment excludes former President Donald Trump from the ballot. In many ways, the case has proven that necessity really is the mother of invention. Up until now, Section 3’s history has received...
If you live in North Carolina, you have about 8 weeks. That is the amount of time that voters have to get candidates running for office to take a stand on the future of Social Security. Because once parties have picked their candidates in the primaries, the time will have passed. Campaigns at that point...
