As the primary election cycle continues to heat up, Michael Olender of AARP joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell to share some of the tools the organization is offering to North Carolina voters.

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Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON The major-party candidates to succeed retiring North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr parried over inflation, abortion and election integrity on Friday night in their only expected debate. Democratic nominee Cheri Beasley and Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd met at a Raleigh cable television studio for nearly an hour of questions. This […]
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Written by HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and NICHOLAS RICCARDI The situation with the poll watcher had gotten so bad that Anne Risku, the election director in North Carolina’s Wayne County, had to intervene via speakerphone. “You need to back off!” Risku recalled hollering after the woman wedged herself between a voter and the machine where the voter […]
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Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON The head of a national political action committee working to elect women who support abortion rights visited North Carolina on Tuesday, joining candidates she says must win this fall to block Republican attempts to enact more restrictions. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper also stood beside EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler while […]
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NC Elections Board Certifies Green Party, Reverses Past Vote
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