Category: Michael Whatley

#NCSEN26: Poll Time! (Whatley v. Cooper)

Posted on August 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys are already fast-forwarding to the general election for our soon-to-be-vacant US Senate seat. There is STILL a primary to be held in March. Nevertheless, CBS17 out of Raleigh

Internal polling: Tillis losing to DEM by NINE, generic GOPer outperforming Tillis vs. Cooper

Posted on July 31, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Ah, so it WAS after all about more than just spending more time with Susie and the kids. We found this little nugget buried at the end of a WRAL

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

Key NCGOP donors / fundraisers pan Whatley antics, back Jim Womack as new state party chairman

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Some folks in DC and Raleigh have attempted to portray the NCGOP’s Michael Whatley as some sort of ”golden boy”. Many NCGOP heavy-hitters are starting to see Donald Trump‘s pick

Team Whatley planning to install Simmons as party chairman? (Trump supposedly “WANTS” this.)

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Brant Clifton

The reports we’re hearing from some influential NCGOP leaders around the state don’t sound good. RNC chairman-designee Michael Whatley has put out the word he plans to officially resign his

Emerald Robinson, John Kane lower the boom on Whatley

Posted on February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

National talk-show host (and conservative warrior-princess) Emerald Robinson recently hosted North Carolina’s own John Kane to discuss Michael Whatley‘s imminent rise to the top of the Republican National Committee. (You

Who’s behind all this bad advice to Trump in re: NC politics?

Posted on February 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Has the ‘Drain The Swamp’ slogan been retired? That’s a pretty good question, given some of the recent North Carolina-related pronouncements / endorsements from Donald Trump and his team. Trump

Tougher voting rules for Thee, but NOT for us.

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Brant Clifton

There aren’t many of us who have completely washed the bad taste of June’s NCGOP convention from our mouths. The whole thing was basically two middle-fingers and a raspberry from

Activists’ legal complaint against NCGOPe starting to get interesting

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We’re starting to see some activity on the legal complaint filed in mid-July by three NCGOP activists about the state party’s June convention. Phil Strach, John Branch, and Jordan Koonts

The NCGOP exodus begins, and the improper voting affidavits flow in

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I’ve seen a handful of resignations from longtime local-level party activists in the wake of Saturday’s travesty in Greensboro. I’m told there are dozens and dozens of more to follow.