Now that candidate filing period for the 2024 elections has closed, we now have a first glimpse at what the 2024 elections will look like in North Carolina.
All by Dallas Woodhouse
OPINION: Ted Budd's really good week
Congressman Ted Budd just finished his second-best week of the primary election with a wave of public opinion surveys showing him surging in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate and a high-profile rally with former President Trump.
OPINION: GOP dominates in legislative candidate filing
Republicans “won” the candidate filing race in both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly, with candidates in significantly more races than their Democrat counterparts for the 2022 elections.
OPINION: Cheating scandal rocks redistricting review
Legislative Republicans filed an emergency motion on Monday in Wake County Superior Court seeking to block two liberal professors from helping review revised congressional and legislative maps.
OPINION: Republicans pass highly competitive new congressional map
North Carolina will have some of the most competitive U.S. House races in the nation this year under a new congressional map given final approval by the General Assembly. The map will be reviewed by a lower court as well as the state Supreme Court before candidate filing re-opens late next week.
OPINION: Reading the redistricting tea leaves
Since the Friday night massacre, in which a partisan Democrat state Supreme Court threw out GOP-enacted congressional and legislative districts, legislators and political observers have been trying to figure out what happens next and what it means for the General Assembly as they return to Raleigh next week to revise maps.
The Woodshed: Walker to focus on Senate race for now
With hundreds of supporters gathered near him, former Greensboro-area Congressman Mark Walker announced Thursday he would continue to focus on the U.S. Senate race instead of switching to run for a U.S. House seat.
OPINION: The Woodshed: Legislature votes to move primary to June 7
The N.C. General Assembly voted along party lines Wednesday to move the 2022 primary election back three weeks from May 17 to June 7.
OPINION - The Woodshed: Democrats plan to block primary move
Legislative Democrats and Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper are making it clear they will oppose the legislation to move North Carolina’s primary election date from May 17 to June 7.
OPINION: The Woodshed: Legislature to move primary election back to June 7
Legislative Republicans will vote this week to delay the 2022 primary elections until June 7. The move was first reported by Carolina Journal over the MLK holiday weekend.
The Woodshed: UNC professor claims only Democrats protect black voters' rights
A liberal UNC-Chapel Hill professor testified Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court that GOP-crafted election maps represent a conservative white backlash against rising black political power. Professor James Leloudis appeared on behalf of Democratic Party-aligned plaintiffs working to overturn voting maps passed by the Republican-led General Assembly, arguing that the maps are unfair to black North Carolinians.
The Woodshed: Supreme Court Dems ditch effort to disqualify GOP justices
Democrats on the state Supreme Court will not use their narrow 4-3 majority to forcibly remove two GOP justices from a critical case dealing with state constitutional amendments. In an order released without fanfare just before Christmas, the court has in essence preserved the status quo.
Raleigh family stranded in South Africa amid global COVID travel ban
As the United States moves to restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries effective Monday, Raleigh actress Lauren Kennedy-Brady and her family are stuck in limbo halfway around the world. The American family had just finished a two-week South African safari and were scheduled to depart on Thanksgiving Day to return to North Carolina.
Veteran GOP state senators headed for high profile primary
State Sen. Tom McInnis, R-Richmond, has moved his permanent residence from Richmond County to his second home in the Pinehurst area of Moore County to run for the newly-drawn state Senate District 21, which will include all of GOP-rich Moore County, and much of Cumberland County that mostly surrounds the city of Fayetteville but includes only 12% of the city itself.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn changes congressional districts
One day after Carolina Journal first broke the news, North Carolina’s westernmost member of the U.S. House, Congressman Madison Cawthorn, confirmed via video in a tweet he will run in a different congressional district than the one he currently represents.
Madison Cawthorn plans to change congressional districts setting up a potential match with Tim Moore
U.S. Congressman Madison Cawthorn confirmed he will run in a different congressional district than the one he currently represents.
The Woodshed: Senate candidate Walker fielding calls about returning to U.S. House
Former N.C. congressman Mark Walker, a Republican candidate for the state's open U.S. Senate seat in 2022, has taken numerous calls urging him to shift gears and try instead to return to the U.S. House. Walker has taken those calls from elected officials in North Carolina and from former House colleagues in other states.
The Woodshed: North Carolina redistricting is like deja vu all over again
It’s one of the best quotes attributed to baseball legend Yogi Berra: "It's like deja vu all over again."
It’s also a phrase that sums up North Carolina’s political landscape going forward as new legislative and congressional district maps are approved by the Republican-led legislature along party-line votes.
OPINION: State House Republicans hold ultimate ace to stop N.C. Supreme Court madness
Should Democrats on the State Supreme Court make the highly partisan and controversial move of forcing two Republican State Supreme Court Justices off a critical case to decide the fate of voter-approved state constitutional amendments requiring voter ID and lowering the maximum income tax rate, State House Republicans can effectively suspend those Democrat justices immediately and indefinitely by a simple majority vote.
State Senator Wiley Nickel first to announce for Congress to replace Price
Wake County State Senator Wiley Nickel, D-Wake, will run to replace David Price in North Carolina's 4th Congressional District. The deep blue district currently covers Orange, Durham, and parts of Wake County.