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Posted on 03/06/2026 4:02:46 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Newly counted votes widened the gap between Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page and state Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger in the race to earn the Republican nomination for state Senate District 26.
Unofficial election results released Tuesday placed Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page two votes ahead of incumbent NC Senate President Pro Tempore Berger with a tally of 13,077 votes to 13,075.
On Friday, Rockingham County and Guilford County election officials worked to tabulate cured absentee-by-mail ballots and provisional ballots, adding 59 votes for Page and 38 votes for Berger.
The machine reading in Rockingham County listed 56 votes for Page and 26 votes for Berger. In Guilford County, the total was 12 for Berger and three for Page.
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This has become one of the most historic races in North Carolina history. It could still go either way.
As an aside, I am a former resident of Rockingham County. I have encountered both Sheriff Page and Senator Berger on a number of occasions. It isn't my place anymore to play favorites: that's for the people in that district to decide. That being said this has also been the UGLIEST state race that I can remember in quite a long time. There has been some nastiness from all sides, not necessarily from the campaigns themselves but I'm still expecting the next several days and the recount to be a nasty affair.
It’s an R+10 district, but given the nastiness of the GOP primary and the general leftward trend over the past year+, do you think that phony-moderate Democrat doctor who is running in SD-26 has a chance in November? Or are people seeing through his disguise?
We have no primary results to go by, since he was unopposed on Tuesday.
“R+10” is suddenly a tossup in certain places these days, maybe equivalent to R+4 under normal conditions. 2026 is hardly likely to be normal conditions, and the weakness at the top of the GOP ticket in North Carolina could easily influence downballot races in a bad way.
For various reasons, I’m sensing that the district will go Republican again in November. Although without Berger on the ballot there are going to be many who will believe it’s not worth casting a ballot or him. Like him or not he has brought the bacon home to the district. If only he hadn’t tried to get a casino in western Rockingham/Guilford counties. Berger was trying to compete with the Harrah’s casino that opened up in Danville, Virginia across the border a couple of years ago and a lot of people back home didn’t care for that. If he hadn’t done that, I don’t doubt that he would have won this primary.
The Berger’s have gotten fat enough at the NC pork barrel. They’re next trick is to open as many casinos as they can. Time for them to go!
In past elections....
Chicago and Detroit Dem hacks on phone: “How far behind is our guy now? How many votes do we have to supply overnight? Got it. You can’t count on us.”
RE: ...found 12 and then 26 votes for Berger...
So, it’s not really a nothingberger. 🍔
I’ve worked that “general region” of NC for several short periods. (Eden area.) The locals are very pleasant to work with, but very, very rural.
In the small towns that dot the region outside of the cities? Seem very conservative. No “loyalty” to “Raleigh” to “Durham” or to Charlotte or to “Greensboro” or to anybody close to the three “big cities” in the area that all the national and state news focuses on.
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