The Daily Haymaker

Hey, where’d that conservative revolution go?

Posted on June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Check out the latest from the UNC-Asheville Board of Trustees: Never underestimate the power of a bunch of squeaky-wheeled students to get the grease, or in this case,

UNC Hospitals caught funding attack on state treasurer Dale Folwell

Posted on June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 by Brant Clifton

A state-funded entity using taxpayer funds to wage political warfare against an elected state official. (*Isn’t THAT special?*) State treasurer Dale Folwell was inspired to pursue his

N&O troll tries to clothesline Lt. Dan

Posted on June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I swear. Being vicious, smarmy, and dishonest must be a written-in-stone requirement for political writers at The money-bleeding, floundering N&O. The little special-needs Speck boy currently holding down the

NC-03: The McIntyres (D) return Joan Perry’s favor

Posted on June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

For a former Democrat congressman, Mike McIntyre sure is playing a major role in a Republican primary (in a district he doesn’t even live in). Joan Perry

‘Draining the swamp’? Officially, now a JOKE.

Posted on June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 by Brant Clifton

With President Trump’s endorsement of the man whose biggest dream upon arriving in DC was chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee, we can officially attach a ‘jk’ (just

Cheering The Obstruction of Justice

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Brant Clifton

During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, liberals were outraged — OUTraged — by local sheriffs and police departments refusing to cooperate with federal agents in the protection

#ncga: Steinburg, Hanig group-hug with leftists on the environment

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

Yep. I am sooooo sure that THIS is what all of you voted for in 2018: Regardless of personal views, state officials agree that climate change is happening,

NC-03: Early voting numbers looking good for Greg Murphy

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

That’s the take from Civitas: […W]hile [Joan] Perry has won the headlines this week, there is evidence that [Greg] Murphy is quietly winning the vote. Through the first

Oh, look! Even MORE polling. (Cooper over Forest. Tillis in the toilet.)

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

Civitas has teamed up with Harper polling to take state voters’ temperature about the 2020 election. Here’s some of what they found: Granted, this was taken earlier

STILL kicking the late senator Helms