Election coverage, campaigns, and results
Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets have spent at least $3 million this year on lobbying and campaign contributions across the federal and state levels, according to a new report from the government watchdog group OpenSecrets. Prediction market platforms say they are like commodity markets that offer contracts to speculate on the future […]
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) will send letters early this week to 1,599 potential non-citizens registered to vote in the state, according to NCSBE spokesman Jason Tyson. The post NCSBE to contact 1,599 potential noncitizens on voter rolls appeared first on Carolina Journal.
Latino leaders gathered outside North Carolina’s legislative building Thursday to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and look ahead to the future. America Juarez-Maldonado with Carolina Migrant Network said it would be easy to feel anger and despair, especially at a time that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have wrongfully detained and arrested many Latinos. “Here’s […]
When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city where roughly 14% of residents are foreign-born, quickly sued. “Every day we find new things to be astonished about but I think that we just […]
"Do not wait. Go out and vote. Vote early, vote by mail or vote in person on Election Day, Nov. 3," President Trump said Saturday in a post on social media.
NASCAR is embracing its roots again. It passed on punishing drivers Carson Hocevar and Ryan Blaney for their pit road brawl. This approach recalls the sport's past, when fights and rivalries were common.
President Trump urged Sen. Tom Cotton to support a bill for permanent daylight saving time, intensifying a pre-election clash over the controversial proposal.
President Trump urged Sen. Tom Cotton to support a bill for permanent daylight saving time, intensifying a pre-election clash over the controversial proposal.
As midterm elections approach, some voters are worried about immigration enforcement officers at polling places. Department of Homeland Security officials say they don't plan to send officers en masse to patrol the polls.
The case is being submitted to the district attorney's office for consideration of charges.
Despite the spending adjustment, political observers say North Carolina is still expected to see significant campaign activity through Election Day.
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Detectives traced the investigation to Irwinton, Georgia, where they identified Devonta Brayon Baker as the suspect.
After spending more than $30 million on the race, SLF is putting further ad spending in the state and in Georgia on hold to increase spending on the Kansas US Senate race, according to media reports. The post Senate Leadership Fund pauses funding in NC Senate race appeared first on Carolina Journal.
President Trump has renewed calls for Senators to approve the Sunshine Protection Act, which would effectively kill the biannual clock change.
An Alexandria, Virginia-based public interest law firm focused on election integrity says it has identified more than 1,200 duplicate voter registration records on North Carolina’s voter rolls in 10 of the state’s largest counties as the Nov. 3 General Election approaches. The post Election group flags 1,200 duplicate NC voter registrations appeared first on Carolina Journal.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections is planning to ask the 1,599 registered voters flagged by a federal database as potential noncitizens to either confirm their citizenship or ask to be removed from the state voter list. The letters will go out to those registered voters early next week, state elections board spokesman Jason […]
Democrat Jessica Bichler’s television ads say Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, sponsored a bill that rolled back testing for water contamination after Chemours polluted the Cape Fear River. Lee's lawyers call the claims false in a takedown letter. The post Lee campaign demands pollution ad taken down, contests claims appeared first on Carolina Journal.
SALISBURY — Artificial intelligence is making it easier to create realistic political images, videos and audio, leaving voters with a new question as they head toward the midterm elections: How do they know what they are seeing is real? That question was at the center of a panel discussion at Catawba College’s “Ballots & Bots” […]
Cook Political Report rates the race as “solid Republican.”