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NC-01: Watch out, Monty Hall! Laurie Buckhout is looking to make deals, too.

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Watching Laurie Buckhout is a lot like trying to follow the ball in a heated ping-pong match. She’s back and forth and all over the place, as well. She lost

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics

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

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, Michael Whatley, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics, Thom Tillis, Whatley
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Mark Robinson needs to SHUT UP and PAY UP.

Posted on December 27, 2025December 27, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The gubernatorial campaign is long over.  The drive-by media is no longer calling him to film his rants and ask about his web-browsing practices. Balanced Nutrition is closed up.  Rachel

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Mark Robinson, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Tillis & Budd: Time to kick Mark Walker to the curb

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yessirree.  Politics IS a contact sport. *Don’t forget it.* You may remember that Republican Mark Walker of Greensboro once represented NC’s sixth congressional district.  He left Congress thanks to redistricting.

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Congress, Mark Walker, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis
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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

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics
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Poll: Sam Page UP BY TEN over Phil Berger

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, you read that right.  A GOP state senate primary that holds the key to how things get done in our state capital is not looking good for the political

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics
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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

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, NCGOP, NCSEN26, NCSEN26, Politics, Whatley
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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)

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, Michael Whatley, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics, Whatley
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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

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campaign 2026, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics
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Parachute Pat’s perpetual paving project

Posted on December 11, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here in Moore County, we are absolutely *blessed* with an abundant supply of relocated Yankees who KNOW BETTER than the rest of us.  What do they know better, you ask?

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Media, Moore County, Pinehurst, Politics
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