Elections

Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online explores one important aspect of the choice in this year’s presidential race. An inert Biden is playing the role of good ol’ Joe from Scranton, while his supporters hope not to change not only the presidency but also the very rules…

Jim Geraghty of National Review Online predicts that the outcome of President Trump’s re-election bid will deliver long-term lessons to the Republican Party. If Donald Trump wins another term next week, he will be the undisputed face of the Republican Party for another four years. Beating Hillary Clinton,…

Even political junkies might know little about N.C. elections beyond the races for president, governor, and U.S. Senate. Rick Henderson analyzes recent developments in other important statewide races for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Terry Stoops discusses learning loss among public school students tied…

As North Carolina continues an election cycle, it is becoming more and more clear just how competitive the 2020 races are in the state. According to the latest polling from the Civitas Institute, Joe Biden holds only a slim margin over President Donald Trump. Carolina Journal reports: A…

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block the extension of North Carolina’s absentee ballot deadline, the top officer in the state Senate is responding. The high court officially closed the door today on N.C. legislators’ legal appeals, with a 5-3 decision in the case called Berger…

Emily Jashinsky of the Federalist explains the negative impact of Democrats’ kid-gloves approach to nominating Joe Biden for president. In a healthy Democratic Party, Joe Biden’s primary opponents would have cared about his family’s documented habit of trading on their powerful last name, almost certainly with the former…

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on N.C. local governments pushing back against Gov. Roy Cooper’s request for local action enforcing COVID-19 restrictions. Carolina Journal Online also reports on the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting Republicans’ attempt to restore the Nov. 6 deadline for counting absentee ballots in…

John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist highlights major media outlets’ failure to follow the facts of the Hunter Biden scandal. It’s hard to read Anne Applebaum’s recent article on the Hunter Biden scandal at The Atlantic without guffawing at the outlandishness of her argument, which is that the…