Cal Cunningham Gets 'Empty Chair' Treatment From Media as Election Day Nears, Journo Sums up Things Best

RedState ^ | 10/31/2020 | Sister Toldjah

[BenghaziMemoriam]

As I wrote last week, embattled Senate nominee Cal Cunningham has been getting brutalized by the North Carolina political media down the homestretch of his Senate campaign, something you rarely see happen to Democrats here in NC.

Here we are a week later, and things haven’t gotten any better on that front for the married father of two who back in September looked like he might have a lock on the race against his Republican opponent Sen. Thom Tillis. In fact, they’ve gotten worse when you watch what reporters have to say about their continued attempts to contact him in order to ask some questions.

In the final full week before election day, Cunningham – who admitted earlier this month to an affair with the wife of a fellow Army veteran – has been hit with, among other things, the dreaded “empty chair” treatment from the media, courtesy of local news outlet WTVD.

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With polls showing a serious tightening in this race, and considering one North Carolina State University political analyst’s observation that “it’s hard to attribute [Cunningham’s erosion in support] to much other than” the affair scandal, Cunningham might find that the voters he needs to defeat Tillis on November 3rd simply won’t show up, either.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

My election forecasting bunion. Never fails.

[who knows what evil?]

Cooper? The cheat? An honorable man? North Carolinians are as dumb as rocks.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

I agree.

Trump carries NC, Cooper is re-elected, as is Tillis.

I just hope Josh Stein loses...

[Soul of the South]

Actually the GOP is dumb as rocks for fielding weak establishment RINO candidates such as Burr and Tillis in NC, Graham in SC, and the two in Georgia.

[mosaicwolf]

I am surprised! I always thought marital infidelity was a badge of honor for a democrat. I must have lost my head for a minute.

[who knows what evil?]

We have the same problem in Tennessee...a female demoncrat running against a female RINO for Congress in my area...I’ll be leaving that line blank on Tuesday.