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.
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 families.
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.
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.
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 to increase.
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 a maggot.”
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.
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.
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.
Davis says he’s focused on improving the lives of local farmers and protecting veterans benefits, all while embracing “eastern North Carolina values.”
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