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Donald Trump Who is the Green Party's Jill Stein, really? Poll: Most voters say US infrastructure getting worse The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE in North Carolina believe the presidential election will have been rigged against him if he loses, according to a new poll. Sixteen percent said if Clinton wins it will be because she legitimately earned more votes than Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee.
Redistricting and lawsuits challenging the resulting new maps have gone together in North Carolina politics for what seems to be about as long as anyone can remember. Republican-created congressional districts that were hurriedly crafted earlier this year after a federal court ruled the district maps drawn in 2011 were racial gerrymandering again have been challenged in court.
The Hillsborough County Democratic Party's annual Kennedy-King fundraising dinner Saturday night was an unprecedented success for the recent, generally dysfunctional history of the local party, with a big, excited crowd swelled by dozens of local candidates and party officials. They included everyone from state party chairwoman Allison Tant and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to most of the Tampa City Council.
He might not be old enough to vote yet, but the 11-year-old boy who put Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on the spot Thursday says he's all aboard the Trump train. "I'm full on with the Trump campaign," Matthew Schricker , who asked the GOP vice presidential nominee a question at a North Carolina event Thursday, said Friday on CNN's "New Day."
The Latest on Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine's campaign events in North Carolina : Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says the lifetime knowledge and esteem he and Hillary Clinton share for small businesses is a stark difference between their backgrounds and Donald Trump. Kaine toured a High Point company Wednesday that cuts and sews customized window treatments for motel chains.
To say that the last few weeks have been good for challengers to voting restriction laws across the country would be an understatement. Kennedy points to a cascade of rulings from several states that she says "stood up for the basic principle that all Americans deserve to have their voices heard at the ballot box without manipulation or suppression."
In a week filled with stirring speeches and standout moments at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, picking the biggest was easy for Sen. Don Davis, D-Greene, a delegate to the event. Toward the end of the call from each state, Vermont Senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders moved to suspend the rules and move forward with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the official party nominee.
A privately issued ID card that enables illegal immigrants in North Carolina to identify themselves to police is getting national attention, though Republican lawmakers want to shut it down. The FaithAction ID program has issued more than 7,000 ID cards, recognized by police and some local organizations in 16 cities and 9 counties.
A federal appeals court ruled that a North Carolina law illegally targeted minorities with tougher ballot access rules, such as requiring photo identification to vote, adding a new partisan flashpoint in a swing state with a raft of hotly contested elections. The ruling Friday by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the 2013 law violated the Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act by targeting black voters "with almost surgical precision."
Florida mosquitoes have likely spread the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time, and Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says the tourism-dependent state may face an economic crisis if visitors start... There's no official warning to stay clear of Florida, but the crowds that usually wander among the bold street murals in Miami's trendy Wynwood arts district may be thinner after reports that mosquitoes in the area... A federal appeals court says a North Carolina law illegally targeted minorities with tougher ballot-access rules, such as requiring photo identification to vote, adding a new partisan flashpoint in a swing state... A federal appeals court ruled that a North Carolina law illegally targeted minorities with tougher ballot access rules, such as requiring photo identification to vote, adding a new partisan flashpoint in a swing state with... Some residents of the ... (more)
The public will get its first glimpse of the Connecticut school built to replace the one where 20 first-graders and six educators were massacred. The new Sandy Hook Elementary School, built to replace the one demolished after a massacre that took the lives of 20 children and six educators, features three courtyards, study spaces designed to look like treehouses and... Hillary Clinton capped off a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance.
A federal judge threw out multiple aspects of Wisconsin's voter ID law on Friday, leaving the law itself intact but ruling unconstitutional many restrictions on voting passed by the GOP -controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Scott Walker . Two liberal groups filed a lawsuit in May challenging the laws, including a requirement that voters show photo identification.
Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president with "humility, determination and boundless confidence in America's promise," taking her place as the first woman to lead a major presidential ticket Thursday night on the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She accepted the nomination with a speech that was in keeping with someone who presents herself as a practical, dogged, policy-oriented striver who gets knocked down and then gets straight back up.
A brief article appeared on the front page of the Friday, July 22 edition of The Daily Advance listing North Carolina mayors who have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Among them was a local mayor who said he based his choice on "...the importance of strengthening rural America."
Michelle Obama looks cozy and casual as she holds her dog Sunny, after receiving the White House Christmas tree in Washington,DC on November 29, 2013. Michelle Obama looks cozy and casual as she holds her dog Sunny, after receiving the White House Christmas tree in Washington,DC on November 29, 2013.
"He sounded like some two-bit dictator ..." - Sen. Elizabeth Warren Friday morning I read through a Trump acceptance speech Facebook thread by Bernie Sanders supporters. Friends.
It would take almost 14 days of eyes glued to the television to watch all the feel-good Hillary Clinton ads that have aired since the general election campaign began last month. Meanwhile, anyone flipping through the channels looking for positive ads about Donald Trump would be disappointed: He hasn't yet put up a spot appealing to November voters and groups supporting him have been similarly silent.
In the campaign for North Carolina's 15 electoral votes, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appears far ahead of Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump in both money and machinery. She's often stumped in the state, rolled out high-profile surrogates - President Barack Obama, for example - and is spending millions of dollars to assemble get-out-the-vote operations and fill the television airwaves with campaign ads.
The request for a preliminary injunction, filed late Tuesday, provides the most extensive look yet at the Justice Department's argument that the bathroom-access requirements violate federal law. The filing comes just after North Carolina lawmakers left the measure largely intact during their session that ended Friday, all but ensuring that the measure's fate will be decided in federal court.