Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
A veteran of North Carolina politics said something that surprised me: “The more I look at the world, the more I’m convinced that the answer to our problems is love.” Love is a word you don’t hear much in politics today. The Time of Trump is a time of hate. Every day, he searches for…
Seven years old, in 1933, waking up in a strange bed, staring into the semidarkness, he thought he was in Grand Central Railroad Station in New York. He wasn’t. He was in a hospital in his hometown near the border of Wales. He’d never set foot in New York City. Turning his head he saw…
Let’s talk about the MAGA world. Trump tells a Republican Congressman ‘Vote for this’ and even though the Congressman thinks it’s a bad bill he votes the way Trump wants. How did Trump get that kind of power? Let’s take a look at North Carolina: We have 10 Republican Congressmen, all elected in ruby-red Republican…
While deadly floods hit Texas and North Carolina, Trump is gutting the National Weather Service, gutting FEMA and aggravating climate change, which causes more calamitous storms. He golfs while Americans drown. A headline in the Guardian said, “Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn.” Talking about the Texas disaster…
Democrats have been gloating over Senator Thom Tillis’ political demise. We should be quoting him. Tillis is the single best validator of Democrats’ single most powerful issue against Trump and Republicans: the deep, devastating and life-threatening cuts in healthcare they rammed through Congress last week. He challenged them in a floor speech: “So, what do…
Do an independent campaign, John Bolton told me a year before the 1980 election. Puzzled, I frowned, What’s an independent campaign? No corporation could give an independent campaign a penny, no person could give more than $5000. But 200,000 conservatives across the country had given $25 or $50 contributions to Jesse Helms’ 1978 campaign so…
The sheep, not the elephant, should be the symbol of today’s Republican Party. N.C. House Speaker Destin Hall said this last week about who will replace Senator Thom Tillis: “We must unify behind whoever President Trump picks.” “Whoever President Trump picks”? As of last week, there were 2,290,923 registered Republican voters in North Carolina. But…
You see a lot of strutting, and the truth can fly out the window in the blink of an eye, but the one thing you have to say about politics is…it’s never boring. Ole Thom Tillis sat in the Senate happy until the day Trump posted on Truth Social ‘he’s got to go’ – so…
I’ve sat through a lot of poll briefings over the years and gotten a lot of surprises. But two polls last week – one on CNN, another on Fox – surprised me more than most: Both said most people opposed bombing Iran’s nuclear sites. Now who on earth would want to let Iran have a…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…
A reassuring lesson from our trip to Germany and Czechia is that dictators, despots and tyrants…