Team Biden has arrived in North Carolina
The Biden campaign has arrived in North Carolina. They are beefing up staff and unleashing a series of ads establishing Biden’s leadership, using the pandemic as the backdrop. With Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan solidly in play, Biden probably doesn’t need the...
Losing faith
Yesterday, a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by 15 points. A Fox News poll has Trump trailing by eight. Given the state of the nation, those numbers make sense. The Trump administration failed to enact a national program to combat...
Cook Report moves NC Congressional races toward Democrats
According to Cook Political Report, House races are quickly moving toward Democrats. They moved 20 races across the country toward Democrats, including two here in North Carolina. In NC-08 where Democrat Pat Timmons-Goodson faces incumbent Republican Richard Hudson,...
Take me back to yesterday
Last week, Thom Tillis told the Republican state convention, “The stakes are very high this election, but you know why I know we’re going to win? Because people remember how good their lives were back in February.” Tillis unwittingly laid bare the problem Republicans...
A fundamental failure of leadership
I was very disappointed to see Senate President Pro-tem Phil Berger attack members of the body he’s supposed to be leading. In a medium post, he accuses Democrats of being “mask hypocrites,” showing photos of Democratic Senators not wearing masks. I cannot imagine...
Listen to the experts, not conservatives
The debate over re-opening the state continues to rage, despite pretty clear evidence of what will happen. When other states decided they were going to open, critics in North Carolina complained that Roy Cooper was leaving us behind and costing us revenue and jobs by...
Is Tillis a drag on Trump?
Support for Donald Trump is continuing to deteriorate in North Carolina. A PPP poll yesterday shows him trailing Joe Biden by four in the state, 50-46. That’s two points more than it was just a few weeks ago and reflects findings from other polls last week that show...
A cornered animal
The news in politics keeps getting tougher for Republicans. After Democrats reported huge fundraising numbers in Senate and House races this week, the Cook Political Report released its Electoral College Ratings. As of today, according to Cook, “Democrats have 279...
NC Democrats post huge fundraising numbers
Campaigns are announcing their second quarter fundraising totals and the numbers are staggering—for Democrats. In North Carolina, U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham says he raised more than $7.4 million between April 1 to June 30. Governor Roy Cooper raised more...
Callous disinformation or dumb as a box of rocks?
As several early open states see massive spikes in COVID-19 infections, likely to be followed by high death tolls in the coming weeks, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest is expanding on the Trump line. He’s telling crowds that masks are proven to be unhelpful and that...
