2024 Elections
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Voting rights group seeks to increase turnout among Black voters in North Carolina.
Turnout in eastern North Carolina could be critical to the outcome of the presidential election and other races on the ballot. All Americans Vote is in the process of registering thousands of voters in the area, many of whom are voting for the first time.
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Harris wants to cap child care costs and expand the child tax credit. Trump’s solution? Tariffs.
Harris has proposed capping families’ child care costs to 7% of their income and offering families of newborns up to $6,000 in the first year of the child’s life. Trump, on the other hand, has focused on tariffs as a solution to the child care crisis, despite evidence showing they would only raise costs for…
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‘Trump denigrates our great country,’ more than 1,000 retired military and Republican leaders say
Three groups of veterans and former Republican officials recently wrote open letters endorsing Kamala Harris and warning that Donald Trump is “unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” The signers of the letters have fought in war zones and guarded allies, they said, and know a threat when they see one.
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Kamala Harris wants to end the Senate filibuster to restore national abortion rights
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
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Harris wants to lower grocery prices by taking on price gouging. Trump’s plan would increase prices.
Kamala Harris has said that she will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging and give the federal government more authority to prevent consolidation in the food industry, if elected. Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to impose tariffs and reduce food imports, a plan that would cause food prices…
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Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues
The CNN report on Thursday unearthed past posts it said Robinson left on a porn site’s message boards in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI;” said he enjoyed transgender pornography; said in 2012 he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama; and slammed the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than…
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The NC Republican Party stands by Mark Robinson after latest scandal, while some candidates try to distance themselves
In our follow up to the Mark Robinson “I’m a black NAZI”-porn-site story that CNN reported this week, we’d planned to quote from some of the comments that Robinson allegedly posted on the site’s message board but which CNN said were too graphic to publish. Then we read them.
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Wake County court rejects GOP attempt to block UNC mobile IDs for voting
With their lawsuit denied, Republicans failed to block UNC students from using Mobile One Cards as legal voter IDs to be used at the polls.
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Mark Robinson called himself a ‘black NAZI!,’ said he would ‘buy a few’ slaves if he could, according to new report
Hours before the CNN story published, reports spread that state Republicans were looking for ways to push Robinson out of the governors race. Robinson, who denied the allegations, rejected any notion that he would drop out.
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Greene County native Don Davis focuses on local issues as he runs for another term in Congress
Davis says he’s focused on improving the lives of local farmers and protecting veterans benefits, all while embracing “eastern North Carolina values.”
