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Did Rudy Play Donald?

By Carter Wrenn December 11, 2019

The way Adam Schiff tells it Trump wanted dirt on Joe Biden so he told the Ukrainian President to ‘Work with Rudy.’ Trump blasts back that Schiff’s full of hot air – it’s all baloney. But up in Manhattan a United States Attorney, who indicted two of Giuliani’s associates from the Ukraine, unearthed a different…

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Blind Passion and 3%

By Carter Wrenn December 9, 2019

Tony grew up in the suburbs, attended college in Boston, graduate school in New York, was proud to be for Obama in 2008, for Bernie in 2016, and now he’s an all for impeachment Democrat. To Tony one thing matters: Trump must go. Sam lives in the rural small town he grew up in, married…

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Tucker Versus Tillis

By Carter Wrenn September 2, 2019

‘Tillis Tanking, Tucker Rising Among Primary Voters,’ the headline read. The  poll by Public Policy Polling showed Garland Tucker had gained on Thom Tillis again, now trailing Tillis by just 7 points in the Republican Primary. (Tillis 38%, Tucker 31%, Undecided 31%). Worse for Tillis, his popularity with Republicans had plummeted for the second time…

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Infected

By Carter Wrenn August 16, 2019

The newspaper, strapped for cash, heard about a ‘Rally Against Racism’ in a small town an hour’s drive away and thought, Click bait. After the rally a headline popped up on the newspaper’s website: ‘We cannot live in fear’: Activist condemns racism, gun violence at rally in Hillsborough – and every time someone clicked to…

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Joe Dickerson: a hero’s story

By Gary Pearce July 30, 2019

“I crawled along with my bayonet in my hand, sticking it in the ground ahead of me trying to find mines.” Joe Dickerson, describing the terrible 400 yards between the water and the seawall on Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944. My stepfather Joe Dickerson, who died Monday at age 96, was a veteran of…

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Sizing up the Democratic field

By Gary Pearce June 25, 2019

Size matters in politics. Yes, physical size: Think Trump looming over Hillary in their debates, or Reagan vs. Carter or George H.W. Bush vs. Dukakis. But just as important is political size, psychic size – call it heft, command presence or the aura of leadership. The Presidency is a big job. To get there, a…

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Democrats and Republicans find common ground

By Gary Pearce June 21, 2019

Apparently, we all agree on one thing: Washington is corrupt. That’s the central message from two challengers to Senator Thom Tillis, one a Democrat and one a Republican. In his announcement video this week, Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham says we must “reform the corrupt system in Washington.” He says, “the corruption in D.C. and politicians…

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Congress could censure Trump

By Gary Pearce June 19, 2019

Many Democrats are torn over impeaching Trump. They think he deserves it, but fear it may reelect him and decimate them in 2020. Here’s an alternative from an unlikely source, Reagan speechwriter and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan: Congress should censure Trump. She wrote: “The harrowing part of the Mueller report is part 2,…

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Democrats should just forget this poll

By Gary Pearce June 12, 2019

Democrats have been circulating and celebrating an Emerson College poll that shows Trump losing North Carolina to Joe Biden by 12 points, to Bernie Sanders by eight points, to Pete Buttigieg by four and tied with Elizabeth Warren. The poll shows State Senator Erica Smith leading Senator Thom Tillis 46-39, and Governor Roy Cooper leading…

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