Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
“When you get knocked down, you get back up” – President Biden in Raleigh Friday. After the debate, President Biden stopped by a Waffle House in Atlanta (photo), flew to Raleigh, gave a barn-burner of a speech Friday and got back in the fight. N.C. Democrats rallied around him, and he rallied Democrats across the…
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The debate ended. The first commentator on CNN said the question now is will Democrats be able to get Biden to step aside. Face bewildered, vacant, Biden showed voters their biggest fears about him are right. He did so poorly Trump didn’t seem to matter. The debate left even Biden supporters shaking their heads. Biden…
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Did President Biden have a bad night? Hell yes. Did Trump convince anybody who wasn’t already for him that he should be President again? Hell no. He reminded us that he’s a serial liar, a convicted rapist and a crook from Queens who’s out on bail. He reminded us why we can’t let him and…
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Debates can turn a campaign on its head. My book, The Trail of the Serpent, is going to be published in August. I tell stories about politics from Reagan’s campaign against President Gerald Ford through Trump and Biden. One story is about Jesse Helms’ first debate with Jim Hunt in 1984. In Jesse’s campaign we…
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How rotten and corrupt is campaign financing in North Carolina? Worse than you think. Capitol Broadcasting Company has exposed the impact of outside money – “dark” money, from anonymous big-money donors – on our elections. They term it “astonishing” in a series released this week. CBC Editorial reports, “Increasingly, the money influencing North Carolina elections…
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Reading about Trump, Biden, politicians, in newspapers is like watching two warring camps – that hate each other. At rallies gripping the podium Trump tells Trumpster’s: ‘I am your retribution’ – forgiveness flies out the window. We’ve walked down this road before. Back in 1865, watching the South collapse, to sow seeds of forgiveness Abraham…
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Muddled creatures, thinking they hold power in their hands, men learn they don’t. Hamas charged into Israel, slaughtered Israelites – Biden said he backed Israel 100%. Got cheers. Next protests erupted howling as Israel bombed Gaza. Those protestors didn’t represent many voters but, running neck ‘n neck against Trump, losing just a fraction of voters…
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One day a Fox News pundit said Trump’s lead over Biden, set in stone, ‘won’t budge.’ The next day Fox News released a new poll: Biden led Trump. For the first time since last year. Trump tore into Fox, called its poll: ‘Trash.’ For eight months Trump led Biden in every Fox poll. What changed?…
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I started a Cooper for President boom. I blogged and tweeted about Governor Roy Cooper as a possible candidate in 2028, and it got more responses than anything I’ve ever done. For the record, I didn’t check first with the Governor’s team. And I may have to go into hiding from First Lady Kristin Bernhardt…
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The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient…
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Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, the legendary political godfather to Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, had a…
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This is bad. Bad for America and for the world. Bad for women, for immigrants, for…
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