by Thomas Mills | Oct 10, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
The political environment in North Carolina is not getting any better for Republicans. A poll out yesterday shows Donald Trump underwater and Thom Tillis drowning. Unless these numbers change by next summer, 2020 is likely to be a bad year for the GOP. The PPP poll...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 8, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
A poll out today shows how quickly public sentiment is moving against Donald Trump. According to the Washington Post survey, a solid majority of Americans support the impeachment proceedings and a plurality believe he should be removed from office. The poll shows...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 3, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Senate President Pro-tem Phil Berger has insisted that Medicaid expansion is not an option in North Carolina. It’s an ideological viewpoint that leaves some of the state’s working poor without adequate access to health care. It also disproportionally hurts the rural...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 30, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
What a week last week was. Say that five times in a row. You might as well get used to it. We’ll be saying it a lot heading into 2020. On the national scene, Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s admission that he asked a foreign government to...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 18, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Thom Tillis kicked off his re-election campaign with an ad wrapping himself around Donald Trump. It’s a signal of how beholden the party is to the president and of Tillis’ naked political opportunism. The GOP has become more a cult of personality than a political...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 16, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Right now, Democrats appear to be doing all they can to help Donald Trump get re-elected. Instead of making the 2020 election a referendum on his embarrassing and damaging presidency, they’re trying to make it about issues that divide even Democrats. Now, they want to...
