Elections
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VIDEO: TV Host Highlights Mark Robinson’s History of Offensive Comments
Mark Robinson won North Carolina’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday. Robinson has a history of making offensive and extreme statements — watch as MSNBC host Rachel Maddow shares just some of Robinson’s past remarks. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardinal & Pine (@cardinalandpine)
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Republican candidate to lead NC’s public schools has called for execution of Obama, Biden and other Democrats
CNN broke the story that Michele Morrow’s social media history included suggestions that President Obama face a firing squad and that President Biden deserved to die over his COVID mask guidelines.
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VIDEO: Rep. Don Davis Reflects on 109-Year-Old NC Voter Cassie Smith
With the State of the Union address tonight, Rep. Don Davis (D-NC) took a moment to talk about his special guest for the event — 109-year-old Cassie Smith of Battleboro, who Davis describes as a “living and walking symbol of our democracy.” Smith was one of the first residents in the state to cast a…
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VIDEO: Mark Robinson: ‘I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote’
During his 2020 run for lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, who won NC’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when women didn’t have the right to vote. “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video…
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NC judges block Republicans’ ‘stark and blatant’ power grab in election law
The law, passed last year by the Republican-controlled legislature, would have stripped Gov. Roy Cooper of appointment power to the state’s elections boards. it also would have likely created election gridlock.
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Tuesday is Election Day. Here’s what you need to know
Here are some tips on voter ID, polling hours and what’s at stake in this election.
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Josh Stein shares his vision for North Carolina ahead of primary
Josh Stein says he’ll work to raise teacher pay, increase funding for public schools, create more opportunities in rural North Carolina, and protect the state against further abortion restrictions. Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday, where they’ll cast their ballots in the North Carolina primary elections, determining which candidates advance to November’s general…
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Satana Deberry’s plan as NC Attorney General? Talk about the things no one’s talking about.
Deberry is seeking the Democratic nomination for Attorney General. She would be the first woman and first person of color to hold the post.
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Op-ed: Trump’s journey from hosting The Apprentice to being the biggest loser
Leading up to the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump honed a carefully crafted image of himself as a successful businessman and a winner. But in reality, Trump has a long record of failure, according to Chris Edelson, a professor and author of two books on US presidential power.
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Biden blasts Trump’s support of a nationwide abortion ban
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”
