Latest dispatches from the campaign trail — June 6, 2012

• At the final walk-through for journalists at the site of Charlotte’s Democratic National Convention, party chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz calls North Carolina a “critical battleground” state.

• Female Democratic state lawmakers use Mitt Romney’s push in North Carolina to call for federal “pay equity” law.

• Henderson County Republican Spence Campbell, an unsuccessful candidate in the 11th Congressional District primary, endorses Vance Patterson in the runoff.

• Republican Pat McCrory launches a new commercial going after the negative ads from the Democratic Governors Association supporting Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and linking Dalton with Gov. Bev Perdue.