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Why has Marc Elias, the Democratic National Committee’s election lawyer, filed more than 50 lawsuits around the country challenging state election laws in advance of next month’s presidential election? Elias says he’s fighting against “voter suppression.” But most of the state laws he’s challenging have been in place for years — including when he was the legal adviser to the John Kerry and Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns. Why is Elias suddenly asking courts to overrule state election laws and count ballots that come in after Election Day, or force states to have unattended ballot collection boxes? Someone who knows Elias...

GREENVILLE, N.C. — At the Alice F. Keene Park community center, just outside of Greenville, the line stretched around the parking lot, with wait times up to two hours for the first day of early voting. At the same time, supporters of Donald Trump gathered at the airport to see the president. As of 5:30 p.m., almost 230,000 people had voted early in North Carolina Thursday. That’s on top of the more-than 530,000 people who have already cast absentee ballots. Local candidates and county party volunteers worked the socially-distanced line outside the community center, trying to sway last-minute undecided voters....

Almost 1,000 absentee ballots are sitting in a locked bin somewhere in the Guilford County Board of Elections waiting to be processed. At least two voters in Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Guilford County, had no idea their ballots were sitting in that pile. incent Gager, a 48-year-old Black man, and his 83-year-old father Nathaniel mailed in their ballots on September 4. They wanted to vote by mail to avoid exposure to Covid-19. Over a month later, neither man had any idea their ballot had been listed as "pending cure" -- which meant there was something wrong with them that...

Mike Bloomberg's climate change group is dumping $2.5 million into the North Carolina race for lieutenant governor to support Democrat Yvonne Holley in the final stretch before the election. "Holley, when elected, will be North Carolina’s first African American Lieutenant Governor, and will serve as president of the Senate, chair of the Energy Policy Council, and will determine the fate of critical legislation," Bloomberg's Beyond Carbon Victory Fund said in a statement. The group also announced Wednesday that it is spending roughly $2 million to support Democrats running for the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Thursday, October 15, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a campaign event at Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville, NC. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. announced that President Donald J. Trump will deliver remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally in Greenville, North Carolina on Thursday, October 15th, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT.

Live debate thread - NC Governorship

In Siler City, where poultry trucks scatter feathers on the roads, Janet Pulido knocked on doors in a heavily Latino mobile home park on a recent autumn weekend, hoping to get out the vote. At Interfood Plaza Latina in Raleigh, Sarahi Gonzalez held a sign in Spanish that read, "Register to vote here. Citizen? Over 18?" The first person the 18-year-old registered to vote that evening? Herself. Across town, during halftime on a patchy grass soccer field — with the Honduran and Salvadoran teams tied — Sandra Amado Gómez and her daughter rushed to register young spectators. They signed up...

CHANGES IN REGISTRATION BY PARTYDEM +2669GOP +4441UNAFFILIATED +3923 CHANGES IN REGISTRATION BY GENDERBOYS +45GIRLS -272UNDESIGNATED +11,601

Trump Pence Make America Great Again 2020 PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP DELIVERS REMARKS AT MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN EVENT IN GREENVILLE, NC Join President Donald J. Trump in Greenville, NC on Thursday, October 15th at 1:00 PM EDT! Get your tickets here. Details about the event below: Thursday, October 15th at 1:00 PM EDT Pitt-Greenville Airport 400 Airport Rd. Greenville, NC 27834 Doors Open: 10:00 AM (EDT) Event Begins: 1:00 PM (EDT) Get your tickets here. GET YOUR TICKETS All attendees will be given a temperature check, masks which they are instructed to wear, and access to hand sanitizer. Please...

North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he's no longer exhibiting any symptoms from the COVID-19 he tested positive for last last week. Tillis had said over the weekend that he still lacked his senses of taste and smell, but he said Monday that even that's returned. He says he will continue to self-isolate. Tillis is among several people who tested positive in the days after attending the Supreme Court nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett at the White House. North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he's no longer exhibiting any symptoms from the COVID-19 he tested positive for...

Cal Cunningham, the Democratic candidate for Senate in North Carolina, has canceled all public appearances since being caught engaging in at least one extramarital affair with a married woman, but there was something he wanted to get off his chest. In a bizarre video presumably recorded in a "windowless basement," Cunningham lashed out at his Republican opponent, Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C). In his best approximation of Christian Bale's Batman voice, Cunningham suggested Tillis was to blame for his sex scandal. "Because Thom Tillis knows that he is losing, and knows that we are winning, he has now resorted to...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham was asked repeatedly Friday whether he's had other extramarital affairs aside from one confirmed this week, but he declined to answer the questions. Cunningham's campaign scheduled a virtual news conference to discuss the need for a better response from Congress to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but every question he was asked was related to his affair with Arlene Guzman Todd, a public relations strategist from California and the wife of an Army veteran. He acknowledged a week ago sending Guzman Todd inappropriate text messages, but she confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that...

Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline,” MSNBC’s Jason Johnson accused President Donald Trump of “raising an illegal white nationalist terrorist army” to intimidate voters at the polls. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I think what the foiled plot against Gretchen Whitmer maybe makes real is that the tweets are acted upon sometimes. Whether they’re cause and effect, I think that’s a question only law enforcement can answer, but there are dots that can be connected between the things he says and the things bad people do. I want to read you this from Politico. ‘Trump campaign ready to unleash thousands of poll...

Below is a list of states that have accumulated substantial mail-in/early votes followed by the percentage share of votes cast by blacks in each state. In other words, of all the early votes that have been returned by mail or cast in person up until yesterday, these are percentages that were cast by black voters in each state: Florida: 11% (Obama 2012: 14% of electorate) Indiana: 5% (state AA population: 11%) Maryland: 22% (state AA population: 33%) Michigan: 8% (state AA population: 15%) Neb(CD-2):4% (CD AA population: 10%) N. Car.: 16% (Obama 1 pt. win in 2008: 23%) Virg.: 13%...

10/13/12: DEMS: 2,818,932 REPS: 2,027,613 UNAFFILIATEDS: 1,680,661 10/15/16: DEMS: 2,694,956 REPS: 2,050,622 UNAFFILIATEDS: 2,019,474 10/10/20: DEMS: 2,585,688 REPS: 2,185,854 UNAFFILIATEDS: 2,417,932 DEM REGISTRATION ADVANTAGE OVER THE YEARS: 10/13/12: +791,319 10/15/16: +644,344 10/10/20: +399,834

North Carolina Senate Democrat candidate Cal Cunningham dodged questions four separate times during a press conference on Friday, when asked if he had affairs with any women other than the one he has acknowledged. Reporters asked Cunningham four times if there were any other women he had an affair with after the Associated Press confirmed that he had an affair with Arlene Guzman Todd, a California public relations strategist. The press call was billed as an event to “hold Sen. [Thom] Tillis Accountable for Failure to Pass Further COVID-19 Relief.” The event also planned to slam Tillis for working to...

The Republican Party under President Donald Trump has narrowed the voter registration gap with Democrats in North Carolina, a prime 2020 battleground. North Carolina, which has long been an outlier in the normally conservative south, was once reliably safe for Republicans at the presidential level. Between 1976 and 2016, Democrat White House hopefuls only carried the state twice. The GOP’s dominance remained intact even as Democrats continued to find success in state and local races in North Carolina, long after much of the southern United States became inhospitable to the party in the 1990s.

Talk about bad timing. In his absurd eagerness to always be spinning in favor of a Democrat (never a Republican) involved in an election campaign, CNN's resident prognosticator Chris Cillizza with a history of often hilarious errors spun himself into a corner on Tuesday. All he had to do was wait a couple of hours and he could have spared himself the embarrassment of portraying the scandal of Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, Cal Cunningham, as just a silly sexting scandal when there was already every sign that it was much more than that.

North Carolina Senate Democrat candidate Cal Cunningham blamed Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for his affair scandal, claiming that Tillis wants to make the pivotal Senate race about something other than the “issues.”

The United States Army Reserve is investigating North Carolina Senate candidate James Calvin “Cal” Cunningham III, a lieutenant colonel who is alleged of having an extramarital affair in potential violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).