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Voters in North Carolina are changing their party affiliations in droves. Republicans lost nearly 30,000 registered members since the election in November. For Democrats, the loss of registrants is even larger, albeit over a longer period of time: a quarter of a million, going back to 2008. The vast majority of those voters are registering as unaffiliated. On this episode of The Politics Podcast, we share a report from the podcast Tested in which WUNCs Rusty Jacobs asks what voters changing the...

A lot has been made of voters leaving the Republican Party, but it's an even larger loss of registered Democrats that will likely ensure a purple North Carolina into the future.

Host Rusty Jacobs looks at what voters changing their Republican and Democratic party affiliations means for future elections in North Carolina and the South.

A voter ID law is on trial again in North Carolina. Is it in line with the Constitution this time? Or is it once again targeting Black voters? On this episode, Will Michaels talks to reporter Rusty Jacobs about the history of voter ID in the state and what arguments activists, lawyers and lawmakers have made before the court in the past two weeks. Tags

Republican lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly say they're close to agreement with the governor on details of a school reopening plan.

Subject:* A friend wanted you to see this item from WRAL.com: https://wr.al/1JZSP Gov. Roy Cooper and state health and safety officials provide a Dec. 22, 2020, update on the coronavirus outbreak in North Carolina and the states response to it. Show Transcript North Carolina. As of today, we have had 488,902 total cases. 5255 new cases reported today. 3000 and one people in our hospitals would covert 19, and sadly, there are 6291 people who have died. Our thoughts are with those who have lost l...