In a joint session Monday, Congress is set to count electoral college votes and certify the November 2024 election, with Vice President Kamala Harris presiding.
Marking the 59th meeting of the Electoral College in North Carolina’s history, the electors gathered in state capitals across the country on December 17 as part of the process that takes place every four years.
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, projected to win with 277 Electoral College votes. Wisconsin was called for the Trump column just after 5:30 am on Wednesday morning, putting Trump over the 270 vote threshold. In unofficial results, Democrat Josh Stein won the governor’s race by nearly 15 percentage points.
It's here. After months of campaigning, billions of dollars spent, and incessant political ads, voting is underway on Election Day 2024.
“The top five states where residents’ votes will have the biggest impact in the 2024 election are all fiercely-contested battleground states: Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin. If you live in one of these states, you could quite literally have the fate of the election in your hands," said analyst Chip Lugo.
A new Civitas Institute poll shows a small majority of North Carolina voters describe themselves as pro-life. In a similar split, a small majority of NC. voters favor doing away with the Electoral College. Donald Bryson, Civitas Institute president, presented on the poll results with WBTV investigative reporter Nick Ochsner during a lunch meeting March...
Members of North Carolina’s Electoral College ceremoniously cast their 15 votes for Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence as some 100 protesters stood outside the Capitol in hopes of changing electors’ minds. The electors said they got thousands of emails and letters asking them to vote against Trump, the president-elect, and Pence, the vice president-elect....
RALEIGH — The 2012 election did little to change the political landscape in Washington, D.C. In the early-morning hours after the election, Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes wrote a column describing “a status quo election with Democrats entrenched in the White House and Senate, and Republicans firmly in control of the House.” Barnes discussed the likely impact of that election on this year’s political developments during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Redistricting can go far in making or breaking a party’s political fortunes. If Tar Heel Republicans control the process this time around, it could be their ticket out of an electoral slump that dates back to Reconstruction.
