Category: Michael Whatley

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

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)

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

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

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

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