Category: NCSEN26

NC’s 2026 US Senate race declared ‘toss up’

Posted on November 23, 2025November 23, 2025 by Brant Clifton

UVA Professor Larry Sabato and the folks at the school’s Center for Politics are frequently called upon by the drive-by media to analyze the elections we hold every two to

journalistic malpractice: moving from slanting to ‘absolutely lying’

Posted on November 18, 2025November 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I’m a former drive-by. I’ve spent a lot of my time since leaving the profession shaking my head in disbelief at how far my former profession has fallen. The news

Bannon: Mike Whatley is “not MAGA”

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

Steve Bannon – one of the architects of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement as well as one of the brains behind Donald Trump’s 2016 victory — is making

Poll time: Brown, Whatley perform about the same against Cooper

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It seems the establishment’s strategy of pretending that (1) there will be no GOP primary for NC’s US Senate seat in 2026 and (2) that Don Brown doesn’t exist is

Whatley screwing up task Trump assigned him

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I tell ya — Donald Trump would have zero patience for something like this on his old TV show ‘The Apprentice.’ The president appointed unaccomplished schlub Michael Whatley to head

New Elon U. poll: Cooper 75%, Whatley 26%

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Before anyone blows a gasket — those numbers represent the percentage of respondents to the poll who know at least “some” about either candidate. Name ID is an important part

Mike Whatley, frequent basher of J6ers, now trying to make us all forget what he did.

Posted on October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Lifetime political hack Michael Whatley – the choice of the RNC and the GOPe for NC’s open US Senate seat — owes Susan and Thom Tillis a lot. They both

NCGOPe: Rules for Thee, but not for meeeeeeeeee … (the sequel)

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Earlier this year, NCGOP officials from Murphy to Manteo were hit with written warnings to refrain from any up-close-and-personal activity in party primaries. Stay neutral until after the primaries, in

Still in-the-tank. Still lying.

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We already showed you the receipts on Fox News’ duplicity in covering North Carolina’s 2026 US Senate race. Now here we come with two more similar examples from the state’s

Whatley’s firm preached the woke gospel of ESG

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

When Mike Whatley first appeared out of nowhere in 2019 to be installed as state GOP chairman, he was introduced to us as the co-founder of something called HBW Resources.