North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall earned at least two rounds of bipartisan applause at the start of this year’s legislative session. One was for assuming his new leadership post. The other was for releasing a House calendar for the next six months, complete with specific deadlines and a pledge to “give you some certainty...
Over 70% of individual contributions to the North Carolina Republican Party came from in-state for the 2024 election cycle, while over 70% of the NC Democratic Party’s individual contributions came from out-of-state, according to 2024 election data from the State Board of Elections.
Stein's fundraising outdid Robinson's by more than four times.
Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, and newly elected Sen. Terrence Everitt, D-Granville, held some of the most highly contested seats in the North Carolina Senate, each raising over $3 million in campaign funds for the 2024 election.
Political leanings among young North Carolina voters are indicating a shift toward more conservative viewpoints as Republican registrations among 18 to 25-year-olds grew significantly between 2020 and 2024, while Democrats have seen a decline in Gen Z voters.
Most election days, there are reports of crowds, long waits, and lines stretching around the block. But in 2024’s primary, there were no such anecdotes in North Carolina’s political media. There weren’t even any major hiccups with this being the first major election our state held using voter ID. It became clear, when the dust...
Democrats claim that North Carolina’s newly redrawn electoral districts are gerrymandered to favor Republican candidates running for congressional or legislative seats. That’s true, of course. GOP lawmakers admit as much. They argue that such partisan considerations are permitted by the federal and state constitutions. That’s also true. The US Supreme Court has ruled that no...
The 2020 election exposed problems with how elections are conducted in North Carolina. My colleague Jim Stirling and I cataloged many of those problems in a report published by the John Locke Foundation last year. They include regular mail ballots accepted after election day, private funds sent to election officials, and election officials accepting ballots...
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on April 28 that partisan gerrymandering claims were “nonjusticiable, political questions” and ordered the General Assembly to redraw the state’s House, Senate, and congressional maps. The legislature will take up that task later this year. With the threat of a (successful) political gerrymandering lawsuit largely behind them, how should...
One of the hot items at the legislature this week was a bill filed by state House Rep. Erin Pare, R-Wake, that would take the current Wake County Commission’s seven districts and allow the voters of those districts to elect those who represent them. You may be asking yourself, “Wait, who was electing the Wake...
North Carolina has divided government. Its most powerful executive is the Democratic governor, Roy Cooper. Four of the seven justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court are also Democrats. But Republicans enjoy majorities in the General Assembly and Court of Appeals, and hold six of the 10 offices on the Council of State. The latter...
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