Category: Congress

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

US Border Patrol boss: Josh Stein inciting violence against lawmen

Posted on November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It appears some people in high places are getting a little sick of our effete goblin of a governor and his pals painting the current immigration enforcement operation in North

Another sheriff, another big political move

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The 2026 campaign season is starting to look like The Year of The Sheriff. In Rockingham County, sheriff Sam Page (R) is challenging the re-nomination of state senate president pro

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

An impressive GOP primary choice for Congress in NC-11

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I think you folks out west might have an opportunity to elect yourselves a really good one here. Army special ops veteran and current businessman Adam Smith (R) is tossing