Election 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fought to get onto NC’s ballot. Now he can’t get off.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must stay on the North Carolina ballot, despite requests from he and his new party We the People that he be removed. The state Board of Elections voted along party lines to keep Kennedy on the ballot, with Democrats citing the state’s Sept. 6 deadline for absentee ballot mailing to begin, […]
Democrats, education advocates link Morrow to Robinson, describe threat to public schools
A coalition of Democratic elected officials, educators, parents and progressive advocates gathered in Raleigh on Thursday to sound alarm bells over what they say is a profound threat to public education posed by North Carolina’s Republican nominees for governor and superintendent of public instruction. The group, which calls itself the Coalition Against Robinson’s Extremism (C.A.R.E.) […]
Supermajority of U.S. women ages 18-49 support legal abortion
While abortion remains one of the most contentious issues separating the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, a new survey finds that regardless of political affiliation, nearly 15% of women of reproductive age have had an abortion at some point in their life, while three-quarters of those same women believe abortion should be legal in most […]
Special Counsel Smith files new indictment in Trump’s Jan. 6 case
WASHINGTON — Adjusting for the U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping presidential immunity decision last month, U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a fresh federal indictment alleging former President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election in his favor. In a superseding indictment filed in the late afternoon, Smith emphasized the private nature of […]
Harris ahead nationally but Trump leads in NC, election forecast shows
Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to defeat former President Donald Trump in the November election but may come up short in North Carolina, according to the latest Decision Desk HQ/The Hill prediction. The Decision Desk HQ Forecast model, relaunched Monday after a month-long pause following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, shows Harris […]
NC Republicans seek a voter purge that would violate federal law
Republicans want the courts to kick 225,000 voters off the North Carolina rolls by the end of next week. The North Carolina Republican Party and the Republican National Committee said in a lawsuit filed Monday in Wake County that the State Board of Elections failed to act when resident Carol Snow complained about violations of […]
Elon Poll shows Harris and Trump with about equal favorability in NC. Robinson faces a wide gap.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump enjoy nearly equal favorability ratings among North Carolina’s registered voters, according to an Elon Poll released Tuesday. About 44% of voters had very favorable or somewhat favorable impressions of Harris, and 46% had very favorable or somewhat favorable impressions of Trump. Each was viewed unfavorably by […]
Ohio US Sen. JD Vance has told some whoppers. Does it stick when he calls someone else a liar?
Since Vice President Kamala Harris on Aug. 6 tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has been attacking Walz’s credibility. Vance has questioned Walz’s honesty about his military service, and the artificial insemination method Walz and his wife used. “Why lie about it?” Vance said to reporters last […]
North Carolina has become a top target for Harris, Trump campaigns
In the month since President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have made a combined four campaign stops to North Carolina. Both candidates have focused their visits on the seven battleground states that are crucial for the path to the White House: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, […]
Weekend reads: Elections heat up in swing-state NC
Latest poll gives Stein a double-digit lead over Robinson in NC’s governor’s race By Clayton Henkel A new High Point University/SurveyUSA Poll shows Attorney General Josh Stein, the Democratic nominee for governor, leading Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson by 14 percentage points in North Carolina’s closely watched governor’s race. The online poll of more than […]
Trump promises mass deportations of undocumented people. How would that work?
WASHINGTON — “Mass deportation now!” is a catchphrase for the Trump presidential campaign, as the Republican nominee proposes a crackdown on immigration that would oust thousands of undocumented people. Often citing a deportation operation enacted by former President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed in campaign rallies that he […]
Harris campaign unveils digital billboards in NC
The Harris-Walz campaign is putting up digital billboards around North Carolina starting Friday and running through the weekend. The billboards, covering 35 percent of all available digital billboards within a 12-mile radius of Greensboro, Charlotte, Durham, and Raleigh, follow Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago […]