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GOP-led House passed a Republican-backed bill to take appointment power over the state elections board away from the governor
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In North Carolina, the legislature is expected to pass an elections bill that will take power from the state's Democratic governor.
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The onetime conservative Democrat switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress. Former campaign aide and close friend Brad Crone said Faircloth died Thursday at his home in Clinton.
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Through a host of changes to North Carolina elections law, redistricting and a sympathetic state Supreme Court majority, Republican legislators could entrench their hold on power for the next decade.
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Despite their opposition to the bill, Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly worked with Republican bill sponsors on trying to soften the legislation's impact on the state's election system.
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Jesse Thomas describes himself as a “no-nonsense Republican” who aims to attract a broad middle ground of voters. He announced his bid last week.
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The justices on Tuesday rejected the broadest view of a legal theory that could have transformed elections for Congress and president by leaving state legislatures virtually unchecked by their state courts when dealing with federal elections.
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Republicans delegates in North Carolina have voted to censure the state's senior U.S. senator for backing LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and gun violence policies.
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A top House GOP leader announced on Thursday that Reps. Keith Kidwell and Jeff McNeely, who are both white, are no longer deputy majority whips after their resignations were sought by other GOP leaders. The Democrats who were the subject of the comments are both Black.
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Experts say four Democratic incumbents are vulnerable when state legislators draw a new map later this year. The state’s highest court in late April threw out a 2022 Democratic ruling against partisan gerrymandering.