by Thomas Mills | Sep 14, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
I’m having a sense of déjà vu about the election. Maybe it’s just PTSD from 2016, but, back then, I believed Hillary Clinton would win in a walk at this point in the election. The first cracks in my belief came when I drove across the heart of the state along rural...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 11, 2020 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
Back when Donald Trump was running for president in 2106, I had conservative friends say to me, “I don’t like Donald Trump, but he’s really saying out loud what a lot of us are already thinking.” As I listened to his rhetoric and tried to tune out the bombast and...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 10, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Over in the Triad, the race for Rick Gunn’s state senate seat is heating up. Gunn, a Republican who has held the seat since winning it the 2010 Republican wave, announced last year that he was retiring. We’re now finding out that he’s being sued by the husband of his...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 9, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
For most of his presidency, Donald Trump has unleashed a new outrage or become embroiled in a new scandal every few weeks. And every time, the media and Democrats chase the story to its, usually, very murky end. The outrages never go away. Trump never apologizes and...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 8, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
With Labor Day past and election day a mere eight weeks from today, it’s time to check in on North Carolina’s US Senate race. No incumbent has struggled as much as Thom Tillis. Democrat Cal Cunningham has led most of the year, sometimes by eye-opening margins. Right...
