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NC News Roundup: Fight for control over state election board; Trump's immigration overhaul reverberates in NC

Cindy Hinkle reaches for a stack of ballots as election workers prepare to mail out absentee ballot requests at the Wake County Board of Elections office in Raleigh on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022.
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Stack of ballots. File photo.

On the North Carolina News Roundup...

Another development in the decade-long fight over control over the state election board.

One Republican congressman is asking the Trump administration to remove red tape as Western North Carolina continues Helene recovery.

The Trump administration's efforts to overhaul immigration are having reverberations in Durham and Charlotte.

And with state lawmakers on recess, we’ll turn our attention to some more local issues in Zebulon, Pender County, and Lumberton.

Plus, the prospects for Roy Cooper jumping into the 2026 US Senate Race.

Co-host Jeff Tiberii talks with a panel of journalists about those stories and more, on Due South.  

Guests

Colin Campbell, Capitol Bureau Chief, WUNC

Claudia Rivera Cotto, Political Reporter, Enlace Latino NC

Brian Gordon, Business & Technology reporter for The News & Observer

Danielle Battaglia, Capitol Hill correspondent, The News & Observer/The Charlotte Observer/McClatchy

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Jeff joined WUNC in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and WUNC’s Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary “Right Turn,” launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.
Erin Keever is the Executive Producer of WUNC’s daily radio show, Due South. Erin comes to WUNC from Charlotte where she spent 16 years at WFAE serving in various roles from on-air announcer, researcher, web editor, to finally senior producer of “Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins.”