GOP Meets In Greensboro

WUNC | By Gurnal Scott

Published June 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM EDT

State Republicans have gathered in Greensboro for the weekend.

Gurnal Scott: The North Carolina GOP has begun its three-day convention. The party is seeking a pair of statewide victories later this year: Mitt Romney in the race for president and Pat McCrory for governor. Left-leaning Public Policy Polling shows McCrory leading Democratic candidate Walter Dalton by six percentage points. Another survey has Romney trailing President Obama by a single percentage point. Both polls were taken in mid-May after Romney won the state's presidential primary. Some high-profile party figures will address the convention over the next two days. Donald Trump is scheduled to speak tonight. Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty will speak tomorrow. Attendees will also vote this weekend on delegates to the national convention in Tampa.

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Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.

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