This week on the Debrief, Vice President Kamala Harris taps a running mate, the North Carolina State Board of Elections is investigating Elon Musk’s PAC, Duke Energy slapped for anti-competitive practices, and UNC-Chapel Hill gets a new chancellor.
Opinion
Down-ballot races show modest shift
Now that the counting of ballots is more-or-less complete, let’s take another look back at the results of the 2024 elections — with a particular emphasis on contests closer to the bottom than the top of the ballot. Why look at down-ballot races? Well, I admit to a longstanding annoyance with conflating the election of...