The Daily Haymaker

Mike Pence fundraising for Tilli$$$$

Posted on May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

News like this makes you wonder how seriously we can take all of this ‘cleaning up the swamp’ talk: Vice President Mike Pence will attend a fundraising dinner

DC getting a lot of SAY in picking Dallas’s replacement

Posted on May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Don’t you find this a bit curious? Oh, by the way, I’ve got mail: To: NCGOP Central Committee From: Acting Chair Aubrey Woodard Re:

#ncpol: Drive-by media dumbness.

Posted on May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I know they’re all bleeding money and having to cut staff. But sometimes — sometimes — you deserve better than what they’re doling out. Our local paper

NC-09: Here we go again? (Ballot harvesting x 10 ???)

Posted on May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Some DC Democrats, the Dan McCready campaign, and their enablers in the drive-by media spent months lecturing us on the horrors of ballot-harvesting. They even hammered home their point

NC-03: Murphy tells Burr to back off Trump Jr.

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It’s rare to have elected members of the same party publicly criticizing each other. A lot of DC Republicans have been sinking their teeth into US senator Richard Burr

John Hood clique STILL can’t accept that Trump WON (and keeps winning)

Posted on May 11, 2019May 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator Richard Burr is being roundly denounced for subpoenaing and harassing the son of President Donald Trump well after the whole Russian collusion thing has been

#ncga: Steinburg hits up Currituck AGAIN for basketball $$$$$

Posted on May 11, 2019May 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

We wrote extensively on last year’s Steinburg-sponsored debacle in Asheville. In his rookie outing as a basketball promoter, then-Rep., now-senator Bob Steinburg promised all kinds of benefits for Currituck

NC-09: A smoking gun that potentially clears Mark Harris, McCrae Dowless?

Posted on May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

In the latter part of the 2018 and the early months of 2019, Democrats and the drive-by media (and some “helpful” Republicans) regaled us with sordid stories of “vote

NCGOPe battles to save state elections board’s Lil’ Kim from mean ol’ Roy

Posted on May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

THIS right here, is akin to an endorsement from Thom Tillis right now: Great competence? She and her staff have ignored a whole lot of misbehavior on

NC-09: Bishop on fast track to facing McCready in general?

Posted on May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

THAT is apparently what National Journal’s Hotline is reporting. So take it for what it’s worth: […] NC-09: “Three private polls conducted by both parties in late April suggest