The Daily Haymaker

NC-03: Push-polling 101

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Voters in the Third Congressional District are getting some rather wild phone calls ahead of July’s runoff primary for Congress. They’re called push polls. So, the Greg Murphy campaign

Tillis: “I’m not concerned about winning a primary, and I’m not concerned about getting re-elected”

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Good for YOU. Why worry about things that are UNLIKELY to happen? Mark Walker — known to the US Department of Justice as “Public

#ncpol: Club For Growth taking aim at Tillis?

Posted on May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

They went 1-1 in the two special congressional primaries in this state this year. But the fiscally-conservative Club For Growth played a huge role in getting Ted Budd

#ncga: Jim Perry, solar (and wind) goon?

Posted on May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Methinks Henry Hinton and I gave the freshman Republican senator from Kinston a wee bit too much credit. I got the impression from listening to Henry’s Greenville-based radio

Bob Steinburg on the radio: (1) attacks GOP colleagues, (2) channels Elizabeth Warren, (3) lets his inner craziness out for a potty break

Posted on May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 by Brant Clifton

You never know what you’re going to get when senator Bob Steinburg gets in front of a camera or mike and opens his mouth. Steinburg took to the

The Swamp pulling out all stops to save Tilli$$$

Posted on May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, it’s SOP in DC GOPe circles to get all hard-nosed and mafioso on consultants who dare to work for primary challengers to congressional incumbents. (Especially those incumbents who

Jones St. drive-bys: Somebody took our “office” space away. (Call a waambulance!)

Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Laura Leslie –– who should be unemployed due to the foul social media screeds she posted against conservatives and Christians a few years back — is miffed. House leadership

NC-03: Murphy returns from DC confab with Meadows, Freedom Caucus; unveils TV and radio ads highlighting his relationship with them

Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 by Brant Clifton

GOP candidate Greg Murphy wants Third District voters to know that, in most House debates, you’ll find him alongside Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and the rest of The House

Tilli$$$ 2020: Feel The Love

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Brant Clifton

You post an innocuous piece of pro-Trump propaganda and get blasted with 345 (and counting) nasty comments. A handful of them appear to be liberals. But quite a few

Pro-LGBTQ. IS he? Or ISN’T he?

Posted on May 19, 2019May 19, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I can remember the good old days when we had at least ONE US senator representing us who you KNEW — without a doubt — where he stood on