What are the chances of the GOP winning a supermajority in North Carolina's General Assembly in this November's General Election? While the probability of that happening looked pretty good earlier in the year, many experts say the chances for that happening have now diminished.
Four candidates from North Carolina seeking U.S. House seats recently received letters from the Federal Election Commission warning them to correct errors with their campaign finance reports or face possible consequences.
Winning N.C. congressional primary candidates Chuck Edwards, Bo Hines, and Sandy Smith had good reasons to thank their campaign teams and voters Tuesday night. They also could have offered a note of thanks to the 2017 N.C. General Assembly. That was the year state lawmakers lowered the threshold for candidates to win a primary election.
Despite 68% of early voters taking a Democrat ballot in 2020 — and despite early voting generally favoring Democrats — Republicans achieved a nearly 50-50 split with Democrats on ballots statewide. This was largely due to a surge in unaffiliated voters choosing to take Republican ballots. By the end of early voting, 62% of unaffiliated voters had picked a GOP over a Democrat ballot.
Editor’s note: this story has been updated from the original posting to include more specific partisan leaning data according to analysis by the N.C. General Assembly. While state lawmakers urge the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the 2022 N.C. Congressional maps, filing in the map’s district races is over, for now. At noon on...
The N.C. House fell short Wednesday in its attempt to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 359, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act. The 67-53 tally was short of the 60-percent margin needed to reverse the governor. The Senate had voted in May to override Cooper. Two Democrats — Reps. Charles Graham, Robeson,...
State Democrats accomplished a major goal in Tuesday’s midterm election, breaking the Republican Party’s supermajority in the General Assembly. Unofficial results show the GOP, which has a 75-45 advantage in the 2017 session — three votes more than needed to override a veto by Gov. Roy Cooper with a unified caucus — lost nine seats....
