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The largest business advocacy group in North Carolina issued a stark warning the day after this week’s primary election. In a blog post Wednesday, the NC Chamber deemed certain outcomes, specifically on the GOP side, “a startling warning of the looming threats to North Carolina’s business climate.” The chamber, which tends to give money to more establishment candidates, identified two primary winners as particularly problematic. One is Michele Morrow, a home-school mother who bested incumbent Republican Catherine Truitt in the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Morrow attended the Jan. 6 rally to support then-President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims...

Here's the 2nd video. Remember, it's from 2020 - but still applies today

On Friday, the Republican National Committee held a meeting in Houston, Texas to decide who would replace outgoing Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. The 168 delegates voted to entrust the leadership of the party to Trump-endorsed Michael Whatley and Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump as RNC co-chair. Both Whatley and Lara Trump were elected unanimously to their positions. McDaniel, who tearfully said goodbye to the RNC delegates during the spring meeting, explained last month that she would be stepping down following the South Carolina primary in order to allow the presumptive GOP nominee to select a RNC delegation for the...

The announcement by Daniels concludes a month during which he considered running for the seat that Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) is vacating to run for governor. Daniels had spent the past decade as president of Purdue University after wrapping up his two terms as governor of the state. Part of that process involved visiting Capitol Hill last week. In Tuesday’s statement, Daniels explained that he wanted to see if he would enjoy being a senator after a career filled with serving in executive capacities. The ex-governor also said that he would have used the time during a single term in...

OLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Matt Dolan has landed the endorsement of former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman in the fractious three-way primary to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this fall, a potentially important boost in the final run-up to the contest. In a letter addressed to fellow Ohioans, the Cincinnati Republican and his wife, Jane, said they decided that Dolan's “conservative record of accomplishment and his commitment to continue to focus on achieving results in the U.S. Senate set him apart” from his rivals, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Trump-endorsed Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno. The Portmans...

Donald Trump is wasting little time putting his imprint on the Republican Party just days after becoming its presumptive presidential nominee. As the Republican National Committee meets here Friday for its spring meeting, members are set to elevate Trump’s endorsed candidates – North Carolina GOP chairman Michael Whatley and the former president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump – to serve as the organization’s new chair and co-chair, respectively. The two are expected to be quickly elected to succeed RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and RNC co-chairman Drew McKissick, committee officials told CNN. Whatley and Lara Trump face no challengers. Trump is also planning...

<p>Donald Trump will tighten his grip on the GOP on Friday when his allies are poised to take control of the Republican National Committee at a meeting in Houston, Texas.</p><p>After sweeping the Super Tuesday primaries and virtually guaranteeing he’s the nominee, Trump has handpicked his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, and Michael Whatley for top jobs in the party. They’re expected to receive enough votes from delegates to glide into the posts with no opposition, and their term will last past the election through January 2025.</p>

When Shelley Luther announced she was challenging state Rep. Reggie Smith in this year’s Republican primary, some party members dismissed it as a quixotic bid from the former Dallas salon owner, who rose to prominence in 2020 for defying a pandemic lockdown order. Luther had already lost to Smith in 2022, her second electoral defeat in 14 months. She generated controversy earlier that year for admitting that she was “not comfortable with the transgenders” and complaining that, during her stint as a school teacher, her students could not make fun of their transgender classmates. She also called for Chinese students...

Democrats want to strip states and local jurisdictions of their control over elections and hand power to President Joe Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and its left-wing allies to override election integrity laws. Sens. Raphael Warnock, Dick Durbin, and Chuck Schumer reintroduced HR 14, dubbed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, on March 1, more than two years after it failed to make headway in the Senate after being passed by the House in 2021. If the bill were to pass, it would enable the Department of Justice to “intervene anywhere in the country to overrule local or...

It’s a little past 2:30 in the morning as I’m writing this post, and the California Democratic primary, held last night, only has 50 percent of the total results counted. Isn’t that disconcerting? In the United Kingdom, the general elections, which have 650 parliamentary elections, are all counted that night. Our British cousins know which government will be elected or not on the same day. Advertisement Liberal reporter Michael Tracey posted over 10 hours ago about how this pace was disconcerting, mocking the progressive Left by noting his comments would make him an “election denier.” From roughly 5 PM yesterday...

Texans voted to oust many state Republicans who blocked Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) efforts to pass school choice last year, as Super Tuesday primaries in the state saw at least a dozen incumbent upsets. Last year, 21 of the 85 state House Republicans joined the ranks of Democrats to block an Abbott-backed school voucher plan from making it into an education funding bill, dealing a major blow to the governor’s agenda. snip On Tuesday, however, most of the 21 GOP lawmakers who voted against school choice will not be returning to Austin. Between six and 10 of them will have...

Nikki Haley’s departure from the Republican presidential race removes the last possibility of moderation on environmental and climate change policy in top GOP leadership. Haley’s concession Wednesday, after only getting a handful of delegates in the primary contests, cements former President Donald Trump’s place as the party’s undisputed leader and presumptive presidential nominee against President Joe Biden. While Haley made energy and climate promises that were not very different from Trump, she earned accolades from conservative environmental organizations that wanted to back a Republican candidate who took the issues more seriously than Trump.

Super Tuesday dealt another blow to the already shrinking bloc of House Republicans who prefer governance over political performance art, as several below-the-radar races delivered victories for the hard-right faction. In Alabama, after redistricting thrust two incumbent Republicans into the same district, Rep. Barry Moore defeated Rep. Jerry L. Carl despite getting outspent by a more than 2-to-1 margin, relying on his ultraconservative credentials to topple Carl’s establishment-backed campaign. In Texas, GOP primary voters nominated an election-denying first-time candidate who has promoted conspiracy theories to replace retiring Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Tex.), a genial doctor who is a member of...

After becoming the defacto 2024 Republican nominee for president Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump is calling on President Joe Biden to debate "ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!" "It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People. Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE! The Debates can be run by the Corrupt DNC, or their Subsidiary, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). I look forward to receiving a response. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday...

OMAHA — U.S. Rep. Don Bacon will face one Republican challenger in his party’s May primary instead of two after a candidate who filed to run against him changed his mind Friday. His lone GOP opponent will be Dan Frei of Omaha, a former tea party darling who lost narrowly in the 2014 primary to Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb. Frei says he wants to join the Freedom Caucus if elected. Michael Connely had also filed to run against Bacon in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. He switched races on Friday to run in the 1st District House race. Connely told the...

One of Trump’s most vocal critics seems to have had a change of heart. Rep. Bacon probably watched the Super Tuesday results come in feeling pretty uneasy, especially seeing President Trump dominate by taking 14 out of the 15 states. The only state he narrowly missed was Vermont, thanks to its open primary system. There, Haley’s Democratic supporters turned out in force for her, netting her a single, rather unimpressive delegate. Join the fight and contribute to our war chest Ditch the ads for $5 per month or $49 per year One of Trump’s most vocal critics seems to have...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would lose an election to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief he recently fired, according to a poll. A survey by the Kyiv-based firm SOCIS conducted Feb. 22-March 1 asked 3,000 Ukrainians how they would vote in a hypothetical ballot, Newsweek reported. If an election were held, 41% of respondents would have backed Gen. Zaluzhnyi in the first round, compared with 23.7% for Zelenskyy. The margin of error was 2.1 percentage points. Zelenskyy fired Gen. Zaluzhnyi from his post in February, following months of speculation about a rift between the pair. He was replaced by the commander of...

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is miffed that Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas did not call her or other Republican leaders to notify them of his intentions to run for the third ranking position in GOP leadership, a post she might want to move up to in the scramble for open roles after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced he would give up the top job in November. To move to the number three job, Cotton would have to leapfrog Ernst and GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia who currently hold the number four and five positions respectively....

Longtime Morgan County school board member Jimmy Dobbs lost his District 5 seat Tuesday to challenger Geoff Halbrooks, according to the unofficial tally of the Tuesday primaries. There is no Democratic candidate in the race. Dobbs, 68, has held his seat for 20 years. He was challenged by 60-year-old Halbrooks, the general manager of Peck Funeral Home.

There will be a new face on the Texas State Board of Education after Brandon Hall, a 27-year-old pastor from Parker County, defeated incumbent Pat Hardy in the District 11 Republican primary. Hall received 53.24% of votes compared to 46.76% for Hardy. Hall will advance to the general election along with Democrat Rayna Glasser, who ran unopposed in her party’s primary. Hall ran on a platform of protecting parental rights, preventing the teaching of Critical Race Theory and promoting Christian conservative values in education. He’s also a supporter of Gov. Greg Abbott’s push for voucher-like education savings accounts, which would...