Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Planned Parenthood’s spending a ton of money – $10 million – to elect pro-abortion candidates in North Carolina. Eyes locked on white suburban women it’s running digital ads, knocking on a million doors to elect Joe Biden, the Democrat candidate for governor, and break the Republican super-majority in the state House and Senate. The first…
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The Republican legislature may not vote for Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s school plan, but North Carolinians can in November. The Governor has drawn a line in the sand – and a clear line of difference between the two parties. Cooper’s plan: 5% teacher pay raise this year $1,500 retention bonus restore master’s degree pay for…
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New data shows that North Carolina Democrats are right to look for votes on country roads and small-town streets. A group called Rural Democracy Initiative – “Communities, Not Corporations” – will release a poll next month saying that “rural voters tend to be economic populists who would overwhelmingly support parts of the Democratic Party’s agenda…
Read MoreWe don’t know much about him – he grew up in a village on the coast of Long Island, bowled in high school, sang karaoke, got two college degrees, moved to St. Augustine, Florida. His mother, struggling with pulmonary disease, died – he wrote, “I am proud to say she navigated the awful challenges of…
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Two things this past weekend made me feel good about this election. First, I crashed a women’s fundraiser for Rachel Hunt, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. Second, I posted on X/Twitter this photo of Hunt and me, showing off the Jim Hunt Dark Brandon shirt my wife got me for my birthday. A mega…
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Trump rolled through two civil trials, hardly blinking, defiant, but at the end of the first week of his criminal trial sitting at the defense table staring straight ahead, eyes sagging, he looked weary. Worn down. A born street fighter, living by the sword, like a reflex Trump punches back whenever someone punches him –…
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A teacher I know, who happens to be our daughter Maggie Pearce Dill, said it better than I could about Mo Green, the Democratic nominee for state superintendent of public instruction: “I have met more candidates and seen more politicians speak than I can count, but very rarely am I moved like I was hearing…
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Siena College took a poll, Biden crept up, gaining 4 points: Trump 45%, Biden 44%. The New York Times went to work interviewing people who were polled: An Independent voter, a hairdresser, said she saw Trump and Biden as ‘just blah,’ added she saw Biden as ‘the lesser of two evils’: “You can recover from…
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‘8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life,’ the headline roared. The report – by the Pew Research Center – announced ‘religion’s role in American life is shrinking,’ went on the say only 13% of Americans think Biden is ‘very religious,’ just 4% think Trump is very religious. Next the Pew…
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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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