2024 NC primary election preview

2024 NC primary election preview

Author: WUNC News July 7, 2023 Duration: 32:48
Primaries for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general are already attracting plenty of candidates — and potential candidates. To help us sort through who’s running and how the campaigns will play out, as well as how much they’ll cost, WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Colin Campbell is joined by longtime political consultant Brad Crone and Anna Beavon Gravely of NCFREE, a nonpartisan research organization. They discuss the impact of Supreme Court Justice Mike Morgan’s potential candidacy for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s prospects in the Republican primary, and who might seek the role of attorney general, or “aspiring governor” as it’s sometimes known.

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The Tuscarora Nation's long struggle for recognition in NC [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:31
Members of the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina recently visited the state legislature to push for a House bill that would grant them formal state recognition as an American Indian tribe. They've been fighting for the…
State auditor candidates face off in rare statewide runoff election [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:03
Polls will once again open all across North Carolina on Tuesday, May 14. But with mostly down-ballot races on the ballot, will Republican primaries be decided by a tiny number of voters? Political scientist Chris Cooper…
Previewing the 2024 legislative session with Sen. Gale Adcock [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:39
State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that…
Meet the ECU student who defeated a 10-term NC lawmaker [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:17
Wyatt Gable, a 21-year-old student at East Carolina University, unseated 10-term Republican Rep. George Cleveland of Jacksonville, who’s in his 80s and is one of the oldest members of the state House. Gable will face Dem…
Making sense of NC's primary results [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:11
The results are in for the 2024 North Carolina primary -- and while some of the top-tier races ended up where everyone expected, there were some big surprises further down the ballot, as well as some races that won't get…
Big changes for 2024 voters under new election laws [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:15
Voters in this year's primary will have a few new things to get used to. After years of legal wrangling, photo IDs are required to vote, but there's a process in place for voters who show up without one. And voters looki…
NC 2024 primary: Races to watch on the Republican Party ballot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:21
Voters in this year's Republican primary will decide whether they want Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson or one of his opponents as their nominee for governor. And elsewhere on the ballot, races for lieutenant governor, Council of…
NC 2024 primary: Races to watch on the Democratic Party ballot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:05
As North Carolina’s March 5 primary looms, there’s not much competition at the presidential level on the Democratic side. President Joe Biden will be the only name on the ballot here, but there are plenty of races worth…
Main Street NC: Murphy's struggle to quiet a cryptocurrency mine [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:28
This episode is the sixth installment in our Main Street NC series from the WUNC Politics Podcast. One of the state’s only cryptocurrency mining operations is located a few miles outside Murphy at North Carolina’s far-we…