After being rejected by North Carolina’s voters, some of the state’s most prominent and extreme Republicans are now searching for new jobs and they’re setting their sights high, NC Newsline reported.
Michele Morrow sets sights on Trump administration job
Michele Morrow, a far-right MAGA extremist who ran for superintendent of public instruction and lost to Democrat Mo Green, appears to think she is qualified to serve in the U.S. Department of Education.
After being anonymously “nominated” for the position as part of an effort by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to fill executive branch positions, she has been linking supporters to an online form where they can support her nomination.
“Let’s help get Michele to Washington where she can fight to save our children in North Carolina and beyond!” a post from her Twitter account said after she was nominated.
Despite voters finding her unqualified to serve on the school board in Wake County in 2022 and statewide voters rejecting her this November, Morrow still believes she is deserving of a position in the federal government.
Morrow has never held public office and has never been employed in a paid education position – and that’s not even mentioning all of the disturbing comments she has made on social media over the last several years. Morrow has also called for the federal government to stop providing any funding to North Carolina’s public schools, a decision that would result in the state’s schools losing over $1 billion.
Morrow said if she gets the secretary job she would try to cut the department’s work on racial equity and withhold funding from states that disagree with that decision. She said racial equity goes against her “pro-America” approach to schooling.
As of this writing, she has 625 “votes” on her “nomination.”
Mark Robinson defiant despite landslide loss to Josh Stein – is a U.S. Senate run next?
Even though he lost by just under 15 points, a nearly unthinkable margin for a North Carolina gubernatorial race, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was defiant after his brutal defeat on Election Night. According to NC Newsline, he delivered a 40-minute sermon where he spoke about transgender people, abortion and his political career. He trashed elected officials in Raleigh and Washington, calling them selfish and cowardly.
“You need people who are there for the right reasons,” Robinson said. “That’s what’s wrong with Washington D.C. right now. It is full of people who are there for the wrong reasons. People who sit there and declare, ‘This is my seat. I don’t want to lose my seat. I’m fighting to keep my seat.’ Who told you it was your seat?”
Up until late September, Robinson had the support of both state and national Republicans. That came to an abrupt end after CNN reported about his posts on a porn forum where he referred to himself as a “Black NAZI” and said he wished slavery would come back. After that, Robinson was no longer welcome in elite Republican circles, something he now says he has no interest in being a part of.
“You gonna open that wound? Guess what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna dump salt right in it, and I’m gonna rub it in,” Robinson said. “You can get mad at me, you cannot like me, you can keep me out of your little club if you want to. I don’t care! I don’t want to be in your little club! I don’t need your approval. I don’t need for you to like me. When I come in the room – as a matter of fact, in some rooms, when I come in, I want you to cringe.”
Following his speech, the speculation about Robinson’s future now includes a potential primary challenge to Sen. Thom Tillis, who is up for reelection in 2026.
Is Dan Bishop headed to the Trump White House?
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, author of North Carolina’s infamous and economically disastrous “bathroom bill,” lost his bid to become the state’s next attorney general after U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson defeated him.
Even though Bishop’s loss means he also lost his seat in Congress, NC Newsline reported that his time in Washington may not be over.
Three days after his election loss, Bishop quote-tweeted a video of Trump outlining his plans to shrink the federal bureaucracy and suggested he could be involved with the administration.
“I so hate that I won’t be there for this,” Bishop wrote. “Oh wait.”
