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There is little doubt in my mind that if a GOP legislative candidates had made an outrageous statement like this against a part of the Democrat electorate, then they would be asked to resign their nomination, and if they did not, the party would make it clear they did not have party support. The fact that the Democrats looked the other way tells you a whole lot about the nature of their party these days in North Carolina.

Commented: Saturday, November 7th, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I see that Texas weirdo Tala-Freak-o has now sidelined "affordability" and is now pushing ending the filibuster. The whole Democrat Party is eaten up with the DSA and its power grabs.

Commented: Saturday, November 7th, 2026 @ 1:58 pm By: Conservative Voter

Mr. Rader: Thanks for jarring my memory. It seems our county works hard to do shameful things.

Commented: Saturday, November 7th, 2026 @ 9:13 am By: Van Zant

VZ, that only happened the very first year we had a Republican majority on the county commission, and it only happened then because Sandy Hardy and I got all of the Republicans together for a cook out at his home in Bath to hammer our an agreement on who got what position. You are right that the "deal with the Democrats" pattern in very rare in most counties. Indeed, it is defined as "party disloyalty" in the state GOP Plan of Organization and we had a former State House C0-Speaker, Richard Morgan, expelled from the party for doing it in the legislature.

Commented: Saturday, November 7th, 2026 @ 8:45 am By: Steven P. Rader

Buzz, the big problem on voters learning facts like this is that our MSM media are propagandists not journalists. Facts that hurt their narrative are just ignored. Even with internet news, the aggregators that 90% read, like Google and Yahoo, openly censor conservative outlets and only present the liberal narrative. If facts are inconvenient to the liberal narrative, they do not get presented to the readers/

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 8:31 pm By: Rino Hunter

Democrat ideas, which is what these establishment hacks backed by Thune promoted are most definitely NOT good ideas. Thune needs to be kicked out on his ass. He is a big part of the reason many GOP voters thought we were being sold down the river in the senate on legislation and were thus not so enthused to go vote.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 7:32 pm By: Conservative Voter

In one of my other lives, I was president and marketing director for a textile company. One of my jobs was to bring out a new product line twice each year. If it sold, I got to keep my job. Would be good if some requirements were placed on our legislators. Oh, I know, we do that at the voting booth. OH, really.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 7:25 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Foreign leaders hate trump more than the democrats do.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 7:03 pm By: big Bob

I think we will be seeing some major power moves from the Democrats to upend how our Constitutional republic has functioned for over 200 years and to set the stage for a Democrat one party state. No, they won't abolish the Republican Party, just rig the system where it can never come to power again.

The first is likely to be ending the filibuster in the senate. This will make it easier for Democrats to ram their legislation through Congress. The filibuster protects the rights of the legislative minority, which the Democrats were all for when they were the minority, but now that the Republicans are the minority, they would prefer to be able to just run over them. That only takes a majority of the Senate to change senate rules, so I think this will happen soon after Democrats are sworn in.

A second major target is the Electoral College, and I think it is likely that the Democrats will take this down before the 2028 election. With legislative results, their compact of states will probably put that scheme in play. Will the Supreme Court have the backbone to stop that play? Unlikely with people like John Roberts running things.

The Democrats will try to perpetuate their control of the Senate by making the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico states, giving them four more senators. The president does not have a veto over that.

Democrats will want to pack the courts, especially the Supreme Court, but since the president has to nominate judges, there are limits on what they can do. Still congress has the power to change the jurisdiction of various courts, so we may see some power plays around that. A majority of Democrat senate candidates in this last election openly advocated packing the Supreme Court. Most of the rest were, like Roy Cooper, evasive on the issue.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Even foreign leaders recognized the Stalin Show Trials in the politically corrupt New York courts against Trump for what they were, total shams and miscarriages of justice.

Now we have a newly elected Democrat congresswoman from our state who stole a car. The owner is out $20,000 for that stolen car. The criminal process was started years before she got into politics. How many cars have YOU stolen, BS Bob? Why does the Democrat Party recruit car thieves for their candidates?

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 4:35 pm By: Rino Hunter

In comparing this election with last election, Beaufort County did better than much of the state in voting for Republican candidates. Whatley ran a few points better than Mark Robinson, for example. Statewide, Whatley did much worse than Robinson Our judicial candidates were only a few points down from where our judicial candidates ran in 2024. One race with the exact same candidates, State Senate, Democrats did about 4 points better. You can compare the numbers on the state board of elections website.

Statewide, Republicans are in a bad way, particularly for US Senate, US Congress, and NC House. Our former congressman, Greg Murphy, is only up by about 200 votes pending a likely recount.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By: piratefan

So easy to be critical. Our president is a convicted felon and owes a woman a lot of money because he lost a lawsuit for putting his hands on her in a changing room.
Good grief Charlie Brown.

MAGA - no moral high ground. None.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By: big Bob