Elections

Paul Specht, PolitiFact & Laura Leslie, WRAL – Sen. Jeff Jackson’s decision to drop ou top the race for the U;S; Senate provides Democrats clarity on how to best vie for the …
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Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, Raleigh News and Observer – Candidate filing for the 2022 elections in North Carolina starts Monday, Dec. 6, and lasts for the next two weeks. The state …
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Danielle Battaglia, Raleigh News and Observer – Former President Donald Trump offered former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker an endorsement Saturday if he switches races, said Jack Minor, Walker’s former chief of …
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Matthew Burns & Joe Fisher, WRAL — Democratic 1st District Congressman Butterfield announced Thursday that he won’t seek re-election and intends to retire at the end of his term in …
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Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer – U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield announced Thursday he will retire from Congress, accusing the North Carolina General Assembly of racially gerrymandering new political maps that leave …
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Paul Specht, PolitiFact — New election lines in North Carolina have inspired some of the state’s most prominent politicians to move up, some to move over and some to just …
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Dawn Baumgartner Vaughn, Lucille Sherman, Danielle Battaglia, and Brian Murphy, The Raleigh News and Observer – North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore will not run for Congress in 2022 — …
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Travis Fain, WRAL — Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is “95 percent sure” he’ll run for governor in 2024, he said on a conference call this week.Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper …
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Will Duran, The Raleigh News and Observer – North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature is wrapping up redistricting. This is a once-in-a-decade process — unless courts step in and order it to …
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Will Wright, The Raleigh News and Observer – Cheri Beasley’s campaign for U.S. Senate returned a $2,000 check from a corporate PAC on Wednesday, about three months after the campaign …
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