Still in-the-tank. Still lying.
We already showed you the receipts on Fox News’ duplicity in covering North Carolina’s 2026 US Senate race. Now here we come with two more similar examples from the state’s drive-by media community.
The game being played in Drive-by Land appears to be to pretend: (1) there will be NO GOP primary for US Senate in March, and (2) Michael Whatley IS THE NCGOP candidate for US Senate, and (3) GOP candidate, military veteran, former prosecutor and MAGA activist Don Brown simply does not exist.
Here we go with a text conversation between a campaign aide to Don Brown and the program director of WBT – Charlotte’s News Talk:
Okay. SO, the rule apparently is: In order to get interviewed on WBT radio in Charlotte, you MUST be a filed candidate for office (or have a special place in the heart of at least ONE WBT staffer).
Filing for the US Senate race starts on December 1. If the rule Mr. Schaefer cites is TRUE, why then has Mike Whatley been mentioned and interviewed numerous times on WBT radio since announcing for US Senate? NO ONE has filed for the office.
There is abundant evidence out there that Mr. Brown was running for the GOP nomination months before Whatley announced his candidacy. Don Brown and Mike Whatley both spoke — as US Senate candidates — at the recent Salt & Light conference in western North Carolina this past weekend.
Speaking of Salt & Light — McClatchy News (which owns the drive-by rags in Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and other locations) covered the conference. The drive-by from McClatchy covered Whatley’s speech to the event, but failed to even mention Brown’s attendance at or speech to the event.
(To be fair, I will give the McClatchy reporter props for quoting a western North Carolina resident bashing Whatley for his poor job in allegedly leading hurricane relief in that region. Whatley and his campaign are making a huge deal of his appointment to the relief post by The White House.)
Drive-bys love to boast about their alleged leadership in keeping the public informed. HOW are you doing that when you are purposely failing to give your viewers, readers, and /or listeners complete information about the upcoming elections?
The Carolina Plotthound — which has been neutered even worse than its inspiration, The Drudge Report — will not admit the existence of GOP US Senate candidates other than Mike Whatley. (Funny though, they have publicized a very interesting primary challenger to Thom Tillis meat-puppet Chuck Edwards.)
John Locke – founded as a conservative counter-establishment operation – has been transformed into a propaganda organ for the NCGOPe and General Assembly leadership. They’ve paid for at least two polls that fast-forward to November 2026 and their dream match-up of Mike Whatley v. Roy Cooper. That’s right. Keep the little people in the dark. (Never mind that primary *foolishness* in March.)
This is the kind of hard-nosed stuff you see more often in authoritarian banana-republic environments.
Never mind that the Trump Team’s previous attempts to meddle in state politics have mostly ended in a toes-up position. (See Dr. Oz in PA, incumbents Perdue and Loeffler in GA, Herschel Walker in GA, among others.)
The GOPe likes to argue that we need to go all in on Whatley because (a) he is a *great fundraiser* and (b) can beat Roy Cooper.
Whatley was pulled out of obscurity in 2019 to be installed as state GOP chairman. Six years later, Raleigh is ready to make him US senator.
Whatley’s entire tenure at the state party was marked by the Republican National Committee and the legislative leadership parking their accrued cash in the state party’s accounts. He had little to no involvement in the arrival or appearance of that money.
DC and Raleigh are trying to make us think Whatley won North Carolina for Trump. Mike Whatley could have moved to The Arctic Circle for the entire 2016, 2020, and 2024 election cycles, and Donald Trump would have still won the state.
I’ve seen at least four polls showing Cooper beating Whatley by a significant margin. There is actually polling showing a *generic Republican* doing better against Cooper than Whatley does.
Where’s that highly-touted evidence he can win in November? I thought finding a winner for November was what you did in a primary. But the *wise ones* in Raleigh are trying to make us forget all about that.
What the MSM wants to happen in November 2026 is the election of Comrade Roy Cooper. They are always in the tank for the Dems. So why are they pushing Whatley so hard right now in our primary? Do they perceive that Whatley would be the easiest for Cooper to beat? I cannot think of another reason these political propagandists in the lefty media would be taking that position.
Right now it looks like Whatley and Brown will be our two choices. There is probably not another lane available for anyone else to get in at this point unless they already had huge name recognition or huge self funding cash available. Before the field formed my choice of an ideal opponent to Tillis and then Cooper would have been former Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin, now Dean of the Law School at High Point University. Mark is a better campaigner than either of the current candidates, is a proven winner statewide, a solid conservative, and has a great personal story. I don’t know if he ever even thought about it, but he could have crushed Tillis and then eliminated Cooper.. I do know that Mark at one time had thought about the governor’s race some years ago, and he would be a great candidate for that in 2028.