Category: campaign 2026

FINALLY figuring out that Mike Whatley is a DUD?

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I caught a report by Fox News’s Chad Pergram over the holiday highlighting North Carolina as having one of the two currently GOP-held US Senate seats most likely to flip

NC-01 GOP candidate says Laurie Buckhout made him an offer he easily refused

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

2024 GOP nominee for North Carolina’s 1st congressional district Laurie Buckhout told radio host Henry Hinton Wednesday morning that she’s going to jump into the 2026 GOP fray for the

Roy Cooper opens fire on DON BROWN

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

Gosh. US Senate candidate Don Brown is getting more attention from the likely Democrat nominee for US Senate than he is from his Republican primary opponent — Donald Trump’s first

Trump endorsements in NC defy logic, make little to no sense

Posted on December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 by Brant Clifton

There’s something that a lot of people — especially the political establishment and the really, really stupid Raleigh news media — need to understand. The Make America Great Again (MAGA)

GOP senator: Berger will sacrifice GOP majority to save himself

Posted on December 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We’ve all heard about Amy Galey‘s late-night unannounced visit to Sam Page‘s house. She put into writing a lot of stuff many of us already knew about Raleigh politics: It’s

Conservative star sets her sights on Lee Co. / Moore Co. seat in NC House

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The name Womack has been at the center of a lot of recent political success on the regional and state levels. Jim and Sherry Womack have worked together for years

Glamour Shots journalism and the 2026 US Senate race

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

2026 is shaping up to be a big political news year. Among other things, we’ve got an open US Senate seat. We also have a major primary challenge to the

It’s On !!! (Berger & Page file for marquee March showdown. )

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I can imagine it’s rare for multiple TV cameras to show up at a rural elections office to cover the opening of the electoral filing period. But – in Rockingham

Lil’ Miss Potty-Mouth clearly making her fellow NC Dems PROUD

Posted on November 29, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat Party has had its share of great orators. Folks such as Stephen Douglas (as in Lincoln-Douglas debates). John Calhoun. Robert Byrd. Bill Clinton. Perhaps it’s time to add

For Stein & Cooper, cooperation is a ONE WAY STREET.