As we head towards the primary, campaign finance reports showing how the candidates did in the first three months of the year are now being posted. Here is a rundown of some of the most closely-watched races. U.S. Senate After a week of difficult polling news showing him trailing Congressman Ted Budd, former Governor Pat...
On Saturday, April 9, a crowd of red-hatted, flag-waving fans of former President Donald Trump descended on Selma, N.C.’s “The Farm at 95” venue to hear from Trump and other prominent conservative speakers. Shortly after the gates opened at 2 p.m. many enthusiastic attendees were more than happy to dance to the country music blaring...
Trump endorsed 13th GOP candidate Bo Hines is taking heat from his primary opponents for a 2017 interview in which he said he was not a social conservative and is “more liberal” on social issues. This comes as Hines prepares for this Saturday’s Save America rally in Selma, N.C. where former President Donald Trump is...
In North Carolina’s sole competitive U.S. congressional race, there is a wide open primary with seven Republican candidates. Five of those candidates gathered on Saturday, March 19, for a forum moderated by Carolina Journal’s Dallas Woodhouse and hosted at the Harnett County GOP’s annual convention. A sixth, Bo Hines, the 26-year-old Trump-endorsed candidate, also showed...
Former President Trump endorsed 26-year-old Bo Hines Tuesday March 14 for the newly created 13th congressional district. Hines played one year of football at N.C. State before graduating from Yale, and lives far outside the district with a scant political resume. In a statement from former President Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump called Hines a...
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...
Last year, a Superior Court panel in North Carolina declared the state’s congressional districts an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. As I noted in a previous column, this was an egregious abuse of judicial power. No matter, it is done. We should now look forward and examine the effects the ruling will have on the 2020 U.S. House...
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and former N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory lead the pack in the latest Civitas Institute poll focusing on the Republican primary. Interestingly, McCrory has yet to file for the governor’s seat, though he hasn’t ruled out running. Harper Polling, on behalf of the conservative Civitas Institute, surveyed 500 likely Republican primary...
The 2020 election season starts unofficially today at noon, with the opening of candidate filing for most races. It’s going to be a contentious year, says Michael Bitzer, professor of Politics and History at Catawba College. “In addition to a highly competitive presidential election, there’s a U.S. Senate and a gubernatorial contest, along with likely...
The 2nd Congressional District technically may be an open seat, but Republican nominee George Holding is a two-term incumbent seeking a third term. Holding now represents the 13th District, but when federal courts forced the General Assembly to draw new maps, state lawmakers moved the 13th District about 100 miles west from its former location in...
Western Carolina University senior Tyann Stubbs juggles two on-campus jobs to help pay her own way through school. And she loves her work. But while the studio art major’s jobs at WCU’s career center and art museum offer great experience, she is limited to working just 25 hours per week during the school year — a...
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