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North Carolina lawmakers have a Nov. 5 deadline to redraw the political maps and pass them through the state House and Senate.

Last week saw quarterly fundraising reports come out for Democratic candidates Jeff Jackson and Cheri Beasley. Jackson was first out of the gate…

In the second episode of our radio and podcast series “Behind The Lines,” Host Jeff Tiberii reviews some of the key legal challenges that have helped shape North Carolina’s redistricting process.

NC SPIN Panelist Michael Bitzer

States are required each decade to redraw congressional districts.

Revisiting Whether It's Politics or Economics That Impacts a County's Vaccination Percentage?

Population numbers from the U.S. Census are due out Thursday. Those granular numbers will help North Carolina lawmakers decide how to carve up political maps for Congress and state legislative districts.

And the NC GOP answers by shortchanging teachers and refusing to expand Medicaid. Clueless. Remember that they expect small children to be as careful and fastidious with cloth masks as professionally trained medical personnel are with surgical masks. What could happen? #ncpolhttps://t.co/c2uzAFw8dF No steps were taken to determine which side of the masks were contaminated (kind of important, ya think?). Sections were cut and soaked in a compound to release proteins before any analysis began, so...

NC Republicans vote to stop mail-in ballots from being counted after Election Day Will Doran, The News & Observer © Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS An election judge process mail-in ballots on Election Day 2020.. RALEIGH, N.C. — In the 2020 elections, North Carolina was one of the last states to finish counting its votes and declare the results in a handful of closely contested races, including president and U.S. Senate. Now Republicans in the N.C. Gene...

Trump could shake up key Senate races with endorsements Bridget Bowman © Provided by Roll Call Former President Donald Trump, here at a 2019 rally in Montoursville, Pa., largely stayed out of GOP primaries in prior election cycles, but his approach may be changing. Former President Donald Trump’s recent endorsement in the North Carolina Senate race is the latest sign that he is looking to influence primaries in competitive states, in a shift from recent election cycles.  D...