Michael McElroy is Cardinal & Pine’s political correspondent. He is an adjunct instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, and a former editor at The New York Times.
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Democrat Allison Riggs moves closer to victory in NC Supreme Court race
A recount has been ordered, but the 625-vote margin is likely too big for Republican Jefferson Griffin to make up. At the official end of the state’s vote-counting process, Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, leads her Republican opponent Jefferson Griffin by 625 votes, a margin small enough to qualify for a recount but…
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Weeks before they lose their supermajority, NC Republicans vote to take power from Democrats who won in November
The Republican-controlled General Assembly is using a hurricane relief bill as cover to propose several unrelated provisions that take power away from the governor, attorney general, and other offices Democrats won control of in this month’s elections. UPDATE: The NC Senate passed the bill on Wednesday afternoon on party lines, 30 to 19. The legislation…
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Despite Trump’s victory, Democrats have big night in North Carolina
North Carolina once again cemented itself as the most impossible-to-define political state in the country, voting for Trump by a sizable margin but favoring Democrats over Mark Robinson, Michele Morrow and Dan Bishop.
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Josh Stein wins race for North Carolina governor, beats Mark Robinson
NBC News and DecisionDesk HQ called the race for Stein shortly after the polls closed on Tuesday night.
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Voter fraud is rare. Intentional voter fraud that changes elections is non-existent.
Several large studies show only a handful of voter fraud cases amid millions of votes cast, and some of those cases are innocent errors rather than dubious plots. But since we are still almost guaranteed to see claims from losing candidates in the coming days that the vote was rigged, here’s what to know about…
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Republicans for Harris make final appeal to ‘Whisper Caucus’ of GOP voters weary of Trump
The soaring enthusiasm for Kamala Harris among Democrats upended the race when she took over the ticket from Joe Biden this summer, but if she wins North Carolina and the presidency, it will also be because of Republican voters who are weary of Trump’s hold on the party but have been hesitant to say so…
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Here’s why it could take some time to know who won the election
The vote counting process in North Carolina moves relatively fast, but it’s still thorough. So cin close races it may take days to know who won. However long it takes, however, it is NOT evidence of election fraud or malfeasance. It’s proof of the opposite: that North Carolina’s elections are secure, fair, and accurate.
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Kamala Harris makes her final pitch to North Carolina voters, highlighting a choice between ‘promise’ and ‘grievance’
Speaking before an exuberant crowd of 8,000 people at Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh, Harris highlighted the contrasts she’s been drawing since the start of her campaign, comparing her promises of working across the aisle with Trump’s threat to imprison his political enemies.
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‘We can’t stay silent’: A closing message for Kamala Harris fills an historic Durham church
St. Joseph African Methodist Episcopal Church welcomed surrogates for the Harris-Walz campaign on Sunday. Pastors and officials both said Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump offered two very different visions for the future. On the last Sunday of the early voting period in North Carolina, Justice Hill, the young adult minister at St. Joseph…
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North Carolina is finally confronting the ‘horror stories’ of its medical debt crisis
The state has among the worst rates of medical debt in the country, but new programs introduced by Roy Cooper and Vice President Kamala Harris could bring relief to millions of low- and middle-income North Carolinians.
