Politics
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Harris seeks to lower drug costs for North Carolinians, building on recent progress
Harris wants to expand the $35 monthly cap on insulin costs and a $2,000 annual cap on out-of-pocket drug costs so that they apply to all Americans, not just seniors on Medicare.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s healthcare plan would be ‘catastrophic’ for North Carolinians, a new Harris-Walz report says
Trump’s healthcare ‘concepts’ include repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would strip health insurance from more than 1.5 million North Carolinians, increase costs, and put people with preexisting conditions at risk of losing their coverage, the Harris-Walz report says.
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Dan Bishop continues to stand by Mark Robinson despite reports of his pro-slavery, pro-Nazi posts
The Republican nominee for attorney general isn’t retracting his support for the embattled gubernatorial candidate. Bishop has in the past described Robinson as “groundbreaking” and “the most formidable candidate [he’s] ever seen in North Carolina.”
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Voting rights group seeks to increase turnout among Black voters in North Carolina.
Turnout in eastern North Carolina could be critical to the outcome of the presidential election and other races on the ballot. All Americans Vote is in the process of registering thousands of voters in the area, many of whom are voting for the first time.
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OPINION: This is the most important election in North Carolina in 2024, by far
The governor’s race is crucial. The presidential election is enormous. But in North Carolina, no race has bigger stakes for the democratic process than one low-visibility race for NC Supreme Court.
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Harris wants to cap child care costs and expand the child tax credit. Trump’s solution? Tariffs.
Harris has proposed capping families’ child care costs to 7% of their income and offering families of newborns up to $6,000 in the first year of the child’s life. Trump, on the other hand, has focused on tariffs as a solution to the child care crisis, despite evidence showing they would only raise costs for…
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‘Trump denigrates our great country,’ more than 1,000 retired military and Republican leaders say
Three groups of veterans and former Republican officials recently wrote open letters endorsing Kamala Harris and warning that Donald Trump is “unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” The signers of the letters have fought in war zones and guarded allies, they said, and know a threat when they see one.
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VIDEO: Martin Luther King III speaks out on Mark Robinson’s MLK insults
We talked to Martin Luther King III about the inflammatory comments Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, reportedly directed at his father. Here’s what King III said.
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Kamala Harris wants to end the Senate filibuster to restore national abortion rights
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
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Harris wants to lower grocery prices by taking on price gouging. Trump’s plan would increase prices.
Kamala Harris has said that she will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging and give the federal government more authority to prevent consolidation in the food industry, if elected. Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to impose tariffs and reduce food imports, a plan that would cause food prices…
