I guess this means Lara Trump isn’t jumping into the race.
President Donald Trump told a gathering of state Republican leaders in Greenville Saturday night that congressman Ted Budd needs to be North Carolina’s next US senator.
The retirement of incumbent Richard Burr means there will be an open-seat election in 2022.
Budd consistently scores as one of North Carolina’s most conservative representatives in Congress. He has been a solid supporter of Trump as well as The House Freedom Caucus, led by congressman Jim Jordan and former congressman Mark Meadows.
NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley fell all over himself today to play down the Trump endorsement in the Senate race. Among other things he played up a straw poll of convention delegates where Walker edged Budd for first place while McCrory was a poor third.
Whatley also pulled some strings to see that the party’s conservative resolutions were not voted on. A delegate, who later admitted Whatley put him up to it, moved to adjourn to head off consideration of the resolutions. They had not been reached in convention business when another delegate had moved in the Saturday afternoon convention business session to prematurely adjourn the convention while there was still time to take up the resolutions. Traditionally, when resolutions are not finished in convention session, they are taken up by the state executive committee immediately after the convention. Whatley clearly had other ideas.
A Rules committee member also admitted that Whatley was behind the most heavy handed Rules report in recent memory. These rules would have blocked consideration of any item that was not noticed to GOP HQ days before the convention and also required a 2/3 supermajority to consider floor amendments to committee reports. Convention delegates voted down those provisions.
Is this how a grassroots party is run? While Whatley has done a lot of good things for the party, he is not an emporer and should not try to behave like one. We are a grassroots party.
I don’t think we are a grassroots party here in North Carolina. It seems to me we are clearly going in another direction and have been for some time now.
We are not a grassroots party. We are part of the Whatley cult. Uninformed voters think he’s the savior. He’s not. Every move he makes is deliberate. He also stacked the Central Committee with more “yes” men. There’s nothing we can do for the next two years but suck it up. We’re a bunch of fools.
NC’s GOP has quickly become as useless as National GOP. I get 3,4, 5 emails per day from, name the senator, congressman with always a Trump inference but begging for $$$ to STOP the Dems. Trump name is always headlined as IF he was asking or IF from him or in his honor or out of respect from him. I give $0.00 to National GOP, Senate GOP fund or House fund and not a penny to the NC coffers. Same tactics described above is how Cheney hung on and then was replaced due to all the havoc created but her replacement is really no better. MCConnell, McCarthy, McDaniels (do you have to be a McD to be in power?). run that show precisely how you described Whatley. Pat was quick to come out sharing disappointment for Trump’s endorse and how the endorser was ‘an insider”….What the H is Pat? An outsider???
Report the emails as spam that is the best thing to do with them
The RINO elites that really control the NC GOP just view the conservative grass roots as useful idiots. They pay us no mind. All they care about is control. Issues don’t matter to the elites, unless it’s tax cuts for their donors. The GOP elites just approved hiring Hannah-Jones, the Critical Race Theorist from the NY Times, for a $180,000 teaching job at UNC. That says it all. Yet all the “useful idiots” at the convention were given no opportunity to even discuss this matter. Even resolutions were not allowed.