More than 3.7 million North Carolinians voted in this November’s midterm election and they did so with essentially no issues at all, state elections officials said.
North Carolina’s two Republican senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, both voted to support the bill and protect both same-sex and interracial marriages.
Legal experts, former attorneys, judges, and activists across the country have signaled that the case could spell the end of democracy in the United States.
North Carolina voters rejected the Trump-endorsed and Jan. 6 participant Republican candidate Sandy Smith, choosing to elect Democrat Don Davis.
Jeff Jackson, a former Army Reserve soldier who served in Afghanistan, and is now a North Carolina Army National Guard major and an attorney, won the newly created district with 57% of the votes.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has become widely known for his anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, his anti-Semitic remarks, and his claims that the United States is a “Christian nation.”
North Carolina’s delegation in the next session of the U.S. House of Representatives will consist of seven Democrats and seven Republicans, a fitting split for such a politically “purple” state. Wiley Nickel is one of those seven Democrats.
In North Carolina, more than 1,700 firearm-related deaths happened in 2020, with 116 North Carolina children dying of a firearm-related injury in 2021, according to NCDHHS.
Valerie Foushee has served in the North Carolina General Assembly since 2013, most recently serving as a State Senator in District 23. Now she’s headed to Congress.
A North Carolina superior court ruling earlier this year restored the right to vote to more than 50,000 North Carolinians on parole and probation.