Category: campaign 2026

WHAT(ley) ???

Posted on July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Given what we found on X last night, we were expecting much different news than what we got hit with. THAT is congressman Pat Harrigan and his wife visiting The

The Senate race name game

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I’m mainly glad the name Tillis will be gone SOON. From our vantage point here at Haymaker HQ, we see and hear a lot of things. Some are funny and

Thommy Boy’s nausea-inducing “Tha-Tha” Thour

Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Boy, those bridges are burning. Thom Tillis — after all those years of thumbing his nose at us and generally behaving like an anus — is doing his damnedest to

Speaker Hall: Let DC pick our next US senator FOR US

Posted on July 3, 2025July 3, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here are those words of wisdom from the boy speaker himself: That’s *interesting* advice coming from a guy who made it to the NC House via a “messy” primary against

Thommy Boy’s Themper Thantrum and the Medicaid Scam

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator is all over the national news boo-hooing about the sick state of politics, how he’s tired of it all, and how he wants to spend more

Tillis (apparently) not running for reelection

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Donald Trump got mad at our senior senator for voting against his Big Beautiful Bill. Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be meeting with potential primary challengers for

Once again, Team Berger panders to big donors while shivving small businesses

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s not hard to imagine a PTSD epidemic sweeping across our state’s commercial fishing business. Organizations — like the CCA — have been stuffing Raleigh politician pockets with cash for

NC’s Pat Harrigan: Pass Big Beautiful Bill to fully-fund mass deports, riot crackdown

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The 10th congressional district’s Pat Harrigan may be one of the new kids in town for NC politics, but he’s apparently earned a heck of a national platform to make

Tillis works with GOP’s left wing to foil Trump efforts to end green energy subsidies

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here’s yet one more example of our senior US senator standing in the way of the Trump agenda: Phasing out Biden-era green energy tax credits is dividing Senate Republicans as

Tillis gives cover to Dem senator’s screaming attack on Homeland Security Secretary Noem