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Republican incumbent Pat McCrory and his Democratic opponent in the undecided North Carolina governor's race have together sent or received hundreds of messages from private email accounts. It's a practice scorned by transparency advocates.
For the second time in recent experience, and the fifth time in American history, a presidential candidate has been elected despite having failed to win a plurality of the nationwide vote. Also for the second time in recent experience, partisans of the candidate who won the popular vote but not the presidency - Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 - have responded by urging an end to the Electoral College system, which awards votes to presidential aspirants by state totals , rather than national ones.
For Democrats, the loss in 2016 might prove a blessing in disguise. During the administration of Barack Obama, the party declined at the state level with a massive amount of Republican governors and 60 legislative houses controlled by the GOP.
Donald Trump protesters hold signs about peace, equality, human rights and family values during a Sept 12 rally in North Carolina. Source: J. Bicking/ Shutterstock.com.
Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor's race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper's unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast.
The incredible moment a brave mother shields her two-year-old son while two dogs attack them as they try to get into their home Trump does a U-turn on 'unfair' protests: The President-elect now claims he LOVES 'passionate' Americans demonstrating against his election, hours after blaming the media for inciting violent scenes Trump spends 'busy day' holed up in Trump Tower hiring 'the people who will be running our government' as lobbyists flood transition effort Trump-backing congressman says GOP will use budget 'reconciliation' to repeal Obamacare in first 100 days - depriving Democrats of the chance to filibuster it 'Some of them are planning on moving out': Wealthy Trump Tower residents complain about being frisked and asked to show ID as protesters cause chaos outside the luxury homes Will Donald Trump be slumming it on Air Force One? President-elect will have to give up his own ... (more)
The incredible moment a brave mother shields her two-year-old son while two dogs attack them as they try to get into their home Trump does a U-turn on 'unfair' protests: The President-elect now claims he LOVES 'passionate' Americans demonstrating against his election, hours after blaming the media for inciting violent scenes Trump spends 'busy day' holed up in Trump Tower hiring 'the people who will be running our government' as lobbyists flood transition effort Trump-backing congressman says GOP will use budget 'reconciliation' to repeal Obamacare in first 100 days - depriving Democrats of the chance to filibuster it 'Some of them are planning on moving out': Wealthy Trump Tower residents complain about being frisked and asked to show ID as protesters cause chaos outside the luxury homes Will Donald Trump be slumming it on Air Force One? President-elect will have to give up his own ... (more)
On election night, when Donald Trump claimed victory in her home state of Wisconsin, Shay Chamberlain was so excited she screamed and fell over. Chamberlain believes Trump is her savior, sent by God to save America from ruin.
Gaga, who prior to the election had appeared at a midnight "Get Out the Vote" rally in North Carolina in support of Hillary Clinton , held up a sign that read, "Love Trumps Hate." She tweeted a photo of herself in front of the building, and captioned it, "I want to live in a #CountryOfKindness where #LoveTrumpsHate."
The political consensus is virtually unanimous: If Hillary Clinton wins North Carolina, Donald Trump has to win every other competitive state to take the White House. Clinton has other paths to victory without North Carolina, but the state has been a focus for Democrats this cycle.
Forty-eight percent of people who say they made up their minds in the last two weeks plan to vote for Trump, while 35 percent say they'll vote for Clinton. Clinton will spend this last day campaigning in Pennsylvania and Michigan, closing things out with a midnight rally in North Carolina, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
Yesterday a Trump protester interrupted the president's appearance at a Hillary Clinton rally in North Carolina, prompting Obama to quiet down a rowdy crowd and urge it to respect the man's right to free speech. That's a radical difference from the Trump approach already, but the GOP nominee saw things differently-accusing Obama of "screaming" at the protester and that the whole scene was a "disgrace."
At a rally yesterday afternoon just outside of Fort Bragg, the world's biggest Army base by population, Barack Obama crisply summarized why Democrats hope this year will be different - and why the Clinton campaign is competing so aggressively for the votes of active duty service members, their families and veterans. "Listen, if you want to keep our military the greatest fighting force that the world has ever known a then we can't have a commander-in-chief who suggests that it's okay to torture people," the president said, referring to Donald Trump.
A larger batch of undecided and third-party voters makes Hillary Clinton's position heading into the election worse than President Barack Obama's four years ago, according to Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. Silver gives Clinton a 65-percent chance of winning, compared to 91 percent for Obama in 2012, despite the fact Clinton is farther ahead in the polls - albeit narrowly - now than Obama's predicted edge.
North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr is walking back from his promise to block any nominees Democrat Hillary Clinton would make to the U.S. Supreme Court if she's elected president. Burr told a private gathering of Republican supporters on Saturday that if re-elected to a third term he would do everything possible "to make sure that four years from now, we're still going to have an opening on the Supreme Court."
Hillary Clinton may not be accumulating the type of early-vote advantage her ca... . In this Nov. 1, 2016, photo, a voter is reflected in the glass frame of a poster while leaving a polling site during early voting ahead of next week's election in Atlanta.
President Barack Obama is citing voter challenges at the heart of an NAACP lawsuit as he urges people at a North Carolina rally to vote. While campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Chapel Hill, Obama mentioned one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
Obama is heading back to North Carolina to help turn out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Cl... WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama staunchly defended Hillary Clinton's use of private email as an "honest mistake," suggesting Wednesday that voters should discount innuendo-filled revelations that the FBI is looking into more emails just ahead of Election Day. Obama walked a careful line in his first public comments about FBI Director James Comey's decision to publicly disclose the emails' existence, which has roiled the campaign.
And Rachel Maddow told Weld tonight, "I can't imagine that you wouldn't tell a person in North Carolina and Ohio to vote for Hillary Clinton ." She thinks a moderate Republican like Weld does not want to dare risk the possibility of a Trump presidency.
President Barack Obama is heading back to North Carolina to help turn out the vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. As if Obama isn't enough of a draw in his own right, Clinton's campaign says he'll be joined at Wednesday's rally in Chapel Hill by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter James Taylor.