The primary season shows Trump’s continued dominance of the GOP
If the Ohio primary tells us anything, it’s that Trump is still dominant in the Republican Party. All of his endorsed candidates won their races. If that holds here in North Carolina, we’ll have Ted Budd as the GOP Senate nominee, Madison Cawthorn in the...
GOP family values
I sure hope I can stop writing about Madison Cawthorn after May 17. If I have to talk about him winning the primary, it says more about the Republican Party than it does about Cawthorn. Actually, all of it, his whole political saga, says a lot about the GOP. ...
The McConnell Court
If the leaked memo from Supreme Court is correct, Roe v Wade has been overturned. It’s a bit shocking, even if it was predictable. Conservatives are giddy, even if trying to focus more on the unprecedented leak than the impact on low-income women who can’t...
Good news for Democrats? It’s all relative
Democrats got some good news from the ABC News-Washington Post poll yesterday. Mind you, good news is relative. The poll indicates that the political environment is no longer deteriorating for the party in power, not that they’re in any great shape as we head into the...
Grifters and leaders
The Republican establishment is finally fighting back. The ferocity with which Senator Thom Tillis is going after Madison Cawthorn is impressive. Tillis is leveling a no-holds barred attack on the Congressman from the 11th district using a SuperPAC to attack him and...
Above the law
Madison Cawthorn has learned one lesson of the Trump era well: Republican politicians are above the law. He was stopped earlier this week for carrying a handgun in the Charlotte airport for the second time since he’s been in Congress. I doubt it was an accident. He...
The accountability gap
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy lied…and lied…and lied. After the release of a book that claims McCarthy told people he would call on Trump to resign during the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, McCarthy denied that ever happened. And he denied it...
The corrupt and the incompetent
“If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.” Mitch McConnell in the wake of January 6. McConnell, of course, voted against impeachment just a few days later. He lost his spine, just like House Minority Kevin McCarthy who told colleagues he would call on Trump to...
The GOP seems to be consolidating around Budd
It appears that Republicans are closing ranks around Ted Budd in the US Senate primary. Earlier this week, Senate Presiden Pro Tem Phil Berger announced his endorsement and this morning, Budd is running ad with Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson touting his support. I...
The primary in NC-04 is a microcosm of the Democrats’ problem nationally
The division within the Democratic Party is playing out in the open primary in North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District. On paper, it’s a crowded primary with eight candidates vying to succeed retiring Congressman David Price. In reality, three candidates have...
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