The Daily Haymaker

BAAAAD for a prospective legislator, but OK for a wannabe governor?

Posted on January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Politics is famous for double-standards. *Rules for THEE, but not for MEEEEEEE.* We see it all the time in DC, in Raleigh, and even on the local front. Well, it

Tilli$$: Nikki Haley would “make a good president.”

Posted on January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s our Thommy. Always ready to shove some ill-gotten cash in his pockets. Always ready to stab conservatives in the back. Tillis worked hard to kill Trump’s border wall. Despite

A gun-rights rebellion in Robinson-Land?

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s what it looks like from here. We’re starting to notice a pattern — early, passionate, high-profile supporters of Lt. Governor Mark Robinson are defecting from Team MKR. We saw

Trump pick for NC-06 congressional primary backed to the hilt by Raleigh ‘swamp creatures’

Posted on January 21, 2024January 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

I don’t know WHO exactly Donald Trump is listening to about North Carolina politics, but he’s getting a lot of horrible advice. There was the decision to endorse Thom Tillis

“Phil, is that YOU?”

Posted on January 19, 2024January 20, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his entourage have been shedding a lot of crocodile tears lately about the, um, “establishment” being “out to get them.” Never mind that the Robinson

Michele Morrow launches first ad for 2024 state schools superintendent GOP primary

Posted on January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 by Brant Clifton

In her nascent rookie campaign for statewide office, Republican Michele Morrow appears to be offering herself as a serious, credible grassroots conservative option for voters frustrated with the radical left’s

Dale Folwell launches first ad of the 2024 GOP gubernatorial race

Posted on January 19, 2024January 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It appears Dale Folwell, North Carolina’s state treasurer, has decided to see and raise the ante in his gubernatorial primary fight against Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and attorney Bill Graham.

Think the state’s public education status quo needs shaking up? Then say ‘Hello’ to Michele Morrow.

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Catherine Truitt has made the McCrory-Tillis wing of the North Carolina Republican Party proud. The allegedly Republican superintendent of the state’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has spent the last

Is it finally time to shut it down and start investigating?

Posted on January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It now appears that a Greensboro-based business owned by NC’s aspiring First Lady Yolanda Hill (aka “Mrs. Mark Robinson”) has been making unauthorized payments of tax dollars to family members for

RFK Jr. shows MKR how to draw a crowd for a political rally

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Earlier reports indicate that our lieutenant governor and alleged frontrunner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination was only able to draw about 150 people to a Raleigh-area political rally on Saturday.