Trump’s address focused primarily on securing the U.S. border with Mexico to prevent “migrant crime,” vehemently criticizing President Joseph Biden’s policies during his first term and preventing what he called a “rigged election” in 2020 from recurring in 2024.
North Carolina and 14 other states will hold primary elections Tuesday, a critical day in which 36% of Republican delegates are at stake. A High Point University poll released Friday showed that former president Donald Trump is leading the Republican presidential primary race with 69% of the vote, while Haley trails behind at 24%.
Harris’s trip came in advance of the North Carolina primary election on March 5. Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump are holding rallies on Saturday in Raleigh and Greensboro, respectively.
Durham County primary elections for board of commissioners, board of education and register of deeds will be held on March 5, ahead of the general elections on Nov. 5.
The election will decide the Republican and Democratic candidates, who will advance to the Nov. 5 general election. The Chronicle has you covered with a guide on the candidates and the main issues at the forefront of voters’ minds.
Munger previously ran for governor of North Carolina in 2008 as the Libertarian Party nominee, becoming the first third party candidate to appear in a televised debate and earning nearly three percent of the vote.
This year, N.C. primary elections will take place March 5, but voters are required to register by Feb. 9.
The suit states that “voting in the region is also highly polarized along racial lines — Black voters there are politically cohesive, but white voters vote sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat minority candidates of choice.”
Gov. Roy Cooper talks 2024 elections, the state of higher education, the Israel-Hamas war, his predictions of the upcoming Duke-UNC rivalry matchup and more.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder sided with the North Carolina Democratic Party, arguing that the changes would have violated voters’ due process rights and result in the throwing out of legitimate ballots.
U.S. District Court Judge James Dever denied a request Monday for the case to proceed with a speedy trial, affording a win to the Republicans who had used their supermajority in the North Carolina General Assembly to draw maps skewed in their favor.
The bill in contention, State Bill 749, removes the governor’s ability to appoint the state Board of Elections, transferring that power to the legislative office. The former system allows for five electoral board members, with three members traditionally coming from the governor’s party.
The Karsh Alumni and Visitor Center had nearly every seat filled for the Monday event previewing the 2024 presidential election, called The 2024 Election, One Year Out.
The congressional map used in the 2022 midterm elections gave North Carolina a split of seven Democrats and seven Republicans in the U.S. House. The new map, Senate Bill 757, favors Republicans in 10 districts and Democrats in three, with one district being a toss-up.
