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I'm Nick Craig. Good morning to you.
Well, North Carolina remains the center of political attention across the nation as President Donald Trump returned to Eastern North Carolina Tuesday night, just two weeks ahead of Election Day, headlining a rally at the Pitt Greenville Airport to boost Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Waltley, as well as talking about and pumping up a congressional nominees, including Lori Buckout and Jennifer Balkum. Buckout is running in North Carolina. First congressional district, Balcom, out in NC 11. That is in western North Carolina.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Greenville Tuesday night, the president framed the midterms as a choice between continuing Republican policies on things like taxes, border security, and public safety, as and accused Democrats of soft on crime policies and higher taxes. He repeatedly singled out former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper, who is the nominee, the Democrat nominee for the open Senate seat that was. Vacated by retiring Senator Tom Tillis, and spent the vast majority of his comments going after the former governor and his policies on crime. This was right off the bat. This guy Cooper let them out killers into the families, into the communities of, and they killed twenty five people almost immediately.
They were murderers, and he let them out. How the hell do you let the? You can't put this guy in the Senate. That was within just minutes of the president's opening remarks at the Greenville Pitt Airport. He followed up and backed up that, calling the former governor a disgrace to the state of North Carolina, and continuing to hammer him on crime.
But Roy Cooper is a disgrace to the state. He betrayed his highest and most sacred duty as your governor to keep North Carolina safe. And I'll tell you what. I read more stuff about North Carolina in the last few years. From him to current, it's not the same.
It was we had a great safe. I mean, you read about all the killings. Cooper, listen. I mean, these are just numbers he released. This guy should not be allowed to be a senator.
He shouldn't be allowed to be.
So Cooper, Cooper released. I didn't even know. I got the rest of the numbers tonight. I knew about the killings—twenty-five killings immediately. Cooper released over three thousand five hundred convicted high-line criminals, including eighty-six convicted murderers.
232 convicted rapists and child predators at levels that nobody's sure what the number is, but it's in the hundreds, and 934 violent and dangerous felons, all because he didn't want them to catch COVID while in jail. That is President Donald Trump in Greenville Tuesday night, hammering the former Democrat governor and Roy Cooper over his policies in and around COVID nineteen to release thousands of individuals from prisons and jails across the Tar Heel state. The president followed up on this and went after the former Democrat governor as it relates to the murder of Arina Zarutskaya back last year aboard the Charlotte light rail.
Something that we have not only heard before from the president, but J.D. Vance and other top Republicans, as they have been in the state over the last year campaigning for Republicans.
So Roy Cooper also released the dangerous monster, DeCarlos Brown Jr. Jr. What do we need Jr. for? Like he's some kind of a—that's his name, DeCarlos Brown Jr.
Violent and deranged animal. With 14 prior, very, very serious and dangerous arrests last year, DeCarlos Brown was on a train when he saw a beautiful 23-year-old, very frightened girl. Because when you watch that tape, you've all seen it a hundred times. Unfortunately, it's hard to watch. Oh, and if you watch it to the end, which nobody should see, you wouldn't believe it.
But you can see how frightened she was just to be there. Irina Zaretska, sitting in front of him, she sat in front of him, and she probably knew she was in trouble. But she sat down, unprovoked. Carlos Brown, big strong guy, stood up and violently slashed her neck. Almost cut her head right off, slashed it violently and viciously.
For those of the people that are able to handle that kind of stuff, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Very rarely do you see it run beyond the actual almost hit. If you did, you wouldn't see anything like it. You probably, in many cases, you wouldn't be the same. Her head was barely attached, and she looked up in that final, just second of her life, and she said to herself, "Oh God, what happened to me?
Oh God!" And she knew she was dead. She knew it. She literally probably lived seconds—just a sec. She knew it happened. The slash was inches deep.
She was in trouble. She walked onto the train because she didn't. Wanna? I don't know what it was. I mean, you could see how scared she was, and the only reason that the brutal monster was roaming free to kill Irina and probably other people, because now they're saying probably other people too, is because Roy Cooper released him from jail.
Released him, and it's a betrayal that can never ever be forgotten. That is President Donald Trump in Greenville, North Carolina, Tuesday evening, stumping for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Waltley and many other congressional Republicans as well. Highlighting the former Democrat governor and Roy Cooper's handling of crime policies, he doubled down on that and talked about a local crime story in Greenville at the hands of another individual that Cooper released during his tenure in the governor's mansion. One of the other criminals Cooper set loose in North Carolina was Jimmy Spate, a serial burglar, convicted child rapist, murderer.
Just one month after being released, he gunned down a man here in Greenville, and he left his mangled dead body on the street. Cooper also released. Calvin Locklear, who was a known monster in jail, even even the prisoners were afraid of him. He was in jail for brutalizing a woman really badly, badly brutalizing her. Less than one month after Cooper released him, he shot a seventeen-year-old girl through the head, broke into her house, and killed her father, who was screaming that, "You killed my daughter!
You killed my daughter!" And then he shot the father through the face. This is a man that Cooper let out. More than 2,000 convicts Cooper released have been re-arrested for committing other heinous crimes.
Some of them, murder, 99 brutal, vicious, violent, never to be forgotten rapes, 617 violent and bloody assaults. And at least 25 murders, so he let out people that murdered 25 at least. Those are just the murders we know about. We have heard this similar story from not only President Donald Trump, but JD Vance and other high-profile individuals within the state of North Carolina. We've seen the advertisements on television, mailpieces, and social media by Republican candidate Michael Wattley and his team, as well as affiliated groups, really hammering the former Democrat governor on his handling of crime during his tenure within the governor's mansion.
The president also turned to other failures that he described in within the Cooper administration, including the handling of COVID nineteen, or excuse me, including the handling of a hurricane Helene in western North Carolina back in twenty twenty four. There's never been a hurricane that anybody's seen that threw out more water than that, and your governor was terrible. He was terrible. He did a horrible job. He did a horrible, horrible job.
Then I came here. Mike, you remember, I wasn't president. I came here and I said, "Look, I can only, I can only help you after January twentieth." He was doing nothing. Your state was dying. The state was dying.
That's President Donald Trump highlighting some of the details surrounding Hurricane Helene. He went on to talk about conversations with Elon Musk and other private entities across the United States in the days immediately following Hurricane Helene to try and swell resources into the area as power lines and of most, if not all, communication networks in western North Carolina remained down for days, if not weeks. After the storm dumped in some areas more than 30 inches of rain, heavy rains and winds just devastating the vast majority of western North Carolina. We of course have talked a lot about those recovery and relief efforts at both the state, federal, and private levels over the last two years. Here on the Carolina Journal News Hour, coming up, we'll hear more from President Donald Trump as he talked about some of Roy Cooper's actions as.
Governor vetoing pieces of legislation, questioned whether Cooper is physically fit and up to the job, and a couple of economic announcements. We'll hear from the Secretary of Commerce and Howard Lutnick as well as North Carolina remains the center of a political attention across the United States. The Vice President and JD Vance in the state on Monday, just just two days ago, stumping for Michael. President Donald Trump in the state yesterday. As we are now less than two days away from election day here across the state of North Carolina, we'll have more on this coming up here in just a couple of minutes.
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It's 5:22. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT. Continuing our coverage this morning of President Donald Trump's return to the state of North Carolina. He had been in the state just 34 days prior. He had held an event that we covered in great detail here on the Carolina Journal News Hour in Gastonia, the home of Michael Wiley, promising at that event.
Back a little more than a month ago, that he would be back in the state of North Carolina. Following through on that promise, yesterday he was at the Pitt Greenville Airport to campaign and rally for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Wattley. Two other individuals also making their way up onto stage. Candidates here across North Carolina, Lori Buckout, the Republican running in North Carolina's first congressional district against Don Davis.
The rally happening. Just on the border between the first and third congressional district, as well as campaigning and stumping for Jennifer Balchum, the Republican running in North Carolina's eleventh congressional district. Her, her, she is in that race due in large part to Chuck Edwards and his announcement just months ago that he would not be seeking reelection to the United States Congress. Both of those ladies speaking at Vice President JD Vance's event Monday. Out in the western half of the state, and making their way to Greenville.
For the rally last night, we've already heard from President Donald Trump as he continues to hammer in on the former Democrat governor, now turned Senate candidate in Roy Cooper, over his handling of crime and dangerous criminals across the state of North Carolina, highlighting the brutal murder of Arina Zarutskaya at the hands of DeCarlos Brown Jr., a very well-known individual within the criminal justice system in and around Charlotte and. Mecklenburg County also hammering the former governor on his release of thousands of inmates during the COVID nineteen pandemic. A lawsuit there by the ACLU and other groups, as Cooper claims, forced his hand to release those individuals. President Trump also spent some time talking about the record of the former Democrat governor in Roy Cooper, highlighting some of the things that he. When he was in the governor's mansion, including vetoing legislation, he vetoed the bill protecting women's sports and signed a law putting men in girls' locker.
You know that this guy actually is worse than almost. People think of him as a moderate. He's not. He's a radical left lunatic. He signed a bill putting Men in girls' bathrooms, and he just got an F rating from the NRA.
F meaning he wants to take your guns away. That's what it is. An F rating. It's hard to get an F. That's President Donald Trump last night in Greenville, North Carolina.
He followed up on an interesting story that we've been following across North Carolina: a cease and desist letter sent to a media outlet, AP Dylan, with the North State Journal, after asking the Roy Cooper campaign whether the former Democrat governor can serve physically and mentally eight years—or excuse me, six years—in the United States Senate. That news has obviously gotten to the president's desk. This is what he had to say on that. Roy Cooper won, and he refuses to answer questions about whether he has the health and stamina to serve a full term because he refuses to do what people are asking to do. Democrat lawyers send a cease and desist letter to journalists asking the question, which means Roy Cooper.
I mean. Is he up for the job? Is he up for the job? The president asks. There, we have seen that letter sent to just one media publication across the state of North Carolina in the North State Journal.
During the event in Greenville last night, we heard multiple other announcements as the president highlighted recent economic figures under his leadership, including record employment, income levels, and low poverty rates, along with. With major investments in North Carolina, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick came up on stage and made a new, made a major announcement about a brand new manufacturing facility coming to the state of North Carolina. This is what he had to say: So, the president had as one of his fundamental objectives was to bring semiconductor manufacturing home to America, right? It's all made in Taiwan, right? And that's just too far away for America.
So he's bringing it home.
So we're announcing Sibelco is going to build silicon manufacturing. It's quartz manufacturing. It is the basically the foundation of semiconductors, and they're going to build it right here in North Carolina. Hundreds of millions of dollars. That is the Commerce Secretary and Howard Lutnick.
We have not seen an official press release from Seblaco or any affiliated companies. The president, in teeing up Lutnick's comments, made the point that this was just told to him on the airplane on the flight into the Greenville Pitt Airport where the rally took place yesterday. We'll be awaiting more detail on that. President Donald Trump also announced a major amount of economic news. As it relates to the Department of War, the Department of War will be investing one point five billion dollars to produce cutting-edge semiconductor chips right here in North Carolina.
Also, it's breaking news. You hear that, Ted? Not bad. And actually, Ted pushed us harder that one, right? Those are two of the major economic announcements made at the rally in Greenville last night.
This marks yet another high-profile Republican visit and event in the state of North Carolina. As I've already mentioned, Vice President JD Vance appeared in the state on Monday. He was in Hendersonville for both stumping for both Michael Watley and Jennifer Balkum. Hendersonville is in North Carolina's 11th congressional district. Andrew.
Tom Rants of the Carolina Journal will join us coming up here after the bottom of the hour to talk about the vice president's events. There, we are keeping a very close eye on this major United States Senate race. We will have a brand new Carolina Journal poll out tomorrow, our final poll ahead of the November the third midterm election. We will likely see a flurry of other polls across the state as well as we have seen some resources shift in terms of dollar amounts on. Advertising and what was expected to be one of the most expensive, most high-profile U.S.
Senate races in the United States history here in North Carolina between Roy Cooper and Michael Waltley that is yet to materialize in less than two weeks ahead of Election Day. Early voting does continue across North Carolina as well. We're keeping an eye on all of those details as it relates to the 2026 midterm election, and we'll have continuing coverage here on the Carolina. Journal News Hour, and as always, over on our website carolinajournal. dot com.
It's five thirty seven. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, one hundred seven point nine FM, WBT. I'm Nick Craig. Good Wednesday morning to you. A busy couple of days here in North Carolina as we continue through the early voting period across the state and head towards Election Day on November the third.
We heard from President Donald Trump; he was in the state on Tuesday.
However, prior to that, Vice President JD Vance was also in the state as a national Republican figure. Is obviously the president and vice president continue to stump for Republican candidates across the state. To walk through what the vice president had to say earlier this week, it's my pleasure to welcome Andrew Pomerantz. CarolinaJournal dot com to the News Hour, Andrew. This is the second time in just the last couple of weeks that both the president and vice president have been in the state.
Within the span, just a couple of days, it was what a mid September. They were here within two or three days of each other.
Now, back to back visits, visits from the president and the VP. Yeah, hey Nick. Happy less than two weeks till election day, right?
So now we're inside that two-week mark, and like you've mentioned, we've had national Republicans in the state for months, but starting to really turn up those efforts. Like you mentioned, JD Vance, Vice President Vance, and President Trump were in the state back in September, down at Gastonia for President Trump and JD Vance in Greensboro at a rally there. But this week, JD Vance took the show on the road, per se, out to the NC Eleven that. Really important congressional district if Republicans want to hold the state, the national house this year, right? That district formerly a Chuck Edwards seat, you know, R plus eleven this previous election cycle.
But obviously, with him stepping down out of that election earlier this year, and Jennifer Bulcum, the former state house rep, stepping in to fill that role, this state, this seat has become very competitive in a you know really competitive state. On top of that, because of the candidate that they've Chosen and Jamie Ager, the Democrats out there, who's a you know maybe a blue dog or more of a traditional Democrat. At least he shows himself, you know, portrays himself to be in that lane. And so, a really interesting event here that brought a lot of elected statewide officials together from across the state of North Carolina. Surprise, I think, to many of us here, Jennifer or Lori Buckhout from NC One making a surprise appearance on stage here with the vice president, who you know, the president will be back in her side of the state.
Later this or like yesterday, right? And so a number of interesting points from this rally. But I think as we get closer to Election Day, you know, we should continue to see that focus be placed here in North Carolina.
Well, let me ask you about this focus, Andrew. We've been covering a lot over the last couple of weeks. Major Republican super PACs essentially pulling all of their cash out of North Carolina. Our Carolina Journal poll, many other polls across the state, have continued to show major deficit for Michael Wiley in comparison to Roy Cooper. And the question was, well, are we going to see these major Republican figures?
I don't think you'll get any higher than the president and vice president coming to the state of North Carolina. While some of that money. Has been pulled. It appears to me that the top two Republicans in the country still believe that there's something to be done here in North Carolina as we continue through this early voting period. Yeah, I think two things are true here, right?
One, when President Trump and Vice President Vance were in the state back a month ago, they promised to come back to North Carolina, and I think their ties to Senate candidate Michael Wattley, you know, Wattley being a Trump guy, you know, Trump's pick in this election, probably has some sway over the president's thoughts about North Carolina, about the state of this Senate race, and whether how competitive it is or not. I think it's also important to mention, you know, when Trump and Vice President Vance came to the state over a month ago. They chose places that may have been hopes that Watley could win some additional votes there.
Now we're seeing them strategically in some of those House districts, like I mentioned, that are so important to Republicans' hopes to hold the U.S. House this November. And the NC one, which is you know a throw-up district, it was redistricted back in 2024 to be more of a Republican district. You know, Don Davis, a tough Democrat, to be there in NC one on the coastline, and then NC 11, right?
So these are two seats that are really important. Republicans, if they hope to regain or maintain control of the House come November, and I think you're beginning to see National Republicans recognize and money following that same way, right? That these two districts have to be held, and maybe the state North Carolina is maybe out of reach at this point in the Senate race. Polling is correct, but some of those individual House races could still be up for grabs. That's a very good point, and obviously we'll keep an eye on those two major House districts, NC 11 and NC 1.
One of the things we did see from JD Vance when he was in the state back a little bit over a month ago, he really beat up on former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper very hard. He spent the majority of his comments talking about some of the issues that he saw with Cooper. A lot of it focusing around the former governor's policies and opinions on things like crime. Hammered him a little bit on hurricane relief and recovery as well. Did we see the same thing on Monday when the vice president was in the state?
We did. He continued to lean into Cooper, right, as a soft on crime former failed governor of the state of North Carolina. And you know, we're beginning to see a shift, though, in both Watley advertisements here, away from that crime issue, away from maybe Cooper's record, and more towards who Cooper would be in the Senate, right? Last Carolina Journal poll showed an overwhelming number of North Carolinians thought that Roy Cooper would vote with Democratic Socialist if he was elected to the Senate, right? And I think JD.
Season opportunity here to tie him with some of those national leaders who are not as popular as Roy Cooper is in the state, and so you know he really leaned into saying that you know he as a senator, Roy Cooper would be a you know his boss would be Chuck Schumer, he would do what Chuck Schumer would say and nothing else. You know he talked about his age, and you know we had some information about you know a seasoned assist come out about his health and potential concerns there, and you know. He leaned in, said, "You know, Cooper doesn't want that to come out because he doesn't want to look any older than he already does when he'll be voting next to his Democratic Socialist colleagues in the Senate." And so, really tying Cooper into those radical policies that come out of you know that far left side of the Senate up in D.C., but continue to hammer Cooper at the Senate, and I imagine continue to do so at their election day. Yeah, obviously, we'll keep an eye on that as well. You mentioned a little bit earlier, Democrat Jamie Ager.
He is the candidate that has raised a boatload of money out in North Carolina's eleventh congressional district. We did see, even just back in the last couple of weeks, when the current governor and Josh Stein signed that gas relief bill into law, Andrew. That we were talking about a couple of weeks ago, he did that on the farm of Jamie Ager out in western North Carolina. Did the vice president comment on that race at all? He really did, and more so than Cooper.
You know, he really led Jamie Ager have it. And then saying, you know, he Jamie Ager's raised a ton of money in this race. He's currently out raising Denver Volcom, but that didn't stop him and National Republicans from continue to focus on this race as something that they see as you know really would turn the tide here nationally as a race to watch. And you know, he. He Vance pointed out that you know Jamie Hager continues to kind of brand himself as this common sense Democratic candidate, this old style blue dog Democrat.
But that is not who he is. He referenced an event back in 2019 where they had drag queens called the Beer City Sisters, who are drag queens but are based on nuns at their farm. It was an event that you know it's promoted to children and a number of those things. And so lean in and hit him hard on that event, and then also talked about the silver spoon. He said that was in Jamie Agar's mouth.
Since his dad previously represented NC 11 in Congress, and his brothers, both in and his father in the NC House, and so kind of said, you know, this is a race between Jennifer Bolcom, who raised on a farm, raised tough, you know, has had to work for everything in her life, to someone who's been handed a silver platter here and is able to run on his kind of his family legacy, and so really set it up as a choice for North Carolina voters. What do you want representing you in Congress? Congress and you know this is a race that has gotten a lot of attention. Will continue to get a lot of attention, and Jamie Ager continues to build momentum there. And so it'll be interesting to see how close this becomes on election night.
Yeah, and we'll be keeping an eye on those early voting totals out in North Carolina's 11th congressional district as we get a couple more days of early voting under our belt to really start to understand what that picture is looking like out in the western half of North Carolina. Andrew, in reading through your piece over at CarolinaJournal dot com, it looked like maybe some pro. Protesters interrupting some of the comments there from the vice president. What exactly went on there? Yeah, a long event.
So I have to give it to the protesters. They maintained their composure through about four and a half hours of speeches and waiting for the vice president to speak. They were right behind the stage. There looked like a just a handful of them. Looked like after the first one got removed, maybe his friends were concerned and left on their own accord without saying much.
Just a few minutes later, but talking about the Epstein files and wanting the you know asking why those files hadn't been released. Vice President Vance. Back and I think you really handled it well. He said, "You know, ladies and gentlemen, we know who what that guy yelling at us behind the door stood for. They stand for the idea that government exists for fraudsters or criminals or illegal aliens.
We know American government exists for American citizens." And then tied that individual to you know being from Washington or Raleigh and knowing the agenda from those two states and claiming he didn't know what he was talking about. Right.
So I think an interesting clapback here from. J.D. Vance, after after this demonstrator interrupted him, you know, quickly escorted out. Not much of a scene there. After that, and kind of left the arena there to chants of USA and some booze.
And so, just a moment of a blip on the radar there during the event. That was overall, I think, quite a unifying event for Republicans. The state leaders, like I mentioned, from the Speaker of the House to congressional candidates from across the state, came together, really rallying behind Jennifer Bulcum in the eleventh. Yeah, there was a lot of high profile. Individuals in elected office at that event.
All right, Angela. Let me have final. Let me ask you this and wrap up our conversation. Do you think that we will see the vice president and president again? There, their back-to-back visits Monday and Tuesday here across North Carolina.
We are rapidly counting down the days; just thirteen until election day. Do you think that this is the last that we see of those two, or is there a possibility we may be squeeze out another visit or two between now and election day? Yeah, we are rapidly approaching election day. If you've not gone and early voted, early voting is open for another ten days or so, right? And so there are a number; those days on the calendar are dwindling down.
And we know the vice president, president, will not be back in the state this week. Their calendars come up last second. I know it wasn't until last Friday and Saturday that we learned the vice president, president, were going to be in the state this week. And so I wouldn't put it past them to come back in the state one more time before election day. There's a lot of battleground.
States that would welcome the president and vice president. That I imagine they may spend more time in the North Carolina over the next ten days or so. Great point there. You can read a full breakdown and rundown of the events on Monday as Vice President JD Vance was back in the Tar Heel state. We've got those details over on our website this morning, carolinajournal dot com.
We appreciate the update. Andrew Pomerantz joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Good morning, again, and welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, one hundred seven point nine FM, WBT. Early voting continues today across the state of North Carolina as we head into day seven of the early voting period. We have a brand new totals available just moments ago from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Now more than eight hundred and seventy six. Thousand individuals of voting during the early voting period, thirty-nine thousand male and civilian ballots, and a little more than seven thousand military and overseas ballots. Democrats do continue with their major advantage over Republicans.
However, it appears over the last two days that the those registered as Republicans are beginning to chip away at that advantage. Currently, now three hundred eighty-four thousand plus. Plus votes that have been cast are those registered as Democrats. That breaks down to forty three point nine percent. Unaffiliateds at two hundred ninety eight plus thousand.
There thirty four percent for them. In one hundred ninety two thousand plus Republicans casting ballots thus far. That now breaks down to twenty one point nine percent. Just in the last couple of days, or the last two days, I should say, we have seen a Republicans gain a percentage point in. Terms of the overall of early vote total in in over the last two days, gaining a point over those over Monday and Tuesday as that early voting period does continue across North Carolina.
We have seen packed lines and very busy schedules at many of these early voting sites across the state. We will continue to watch early voting as that ends coming up here next Saturday. October the thirty first, polls are open from eight a.m. to three p.m. That final day of early voting.
No voting on Sunday. That is November the first or Monday, November the second, and then all eyes will be on Election Day, where thousands of precincts and voting locations will be open from six thirty a.m. to seven thirty p.m. We are going to continue to get analysis of these early voting totals, as in the first couple of days we did. And we talked to Dr.
Andy Jackson from the John Locke Foundation about this yesterday. Democrats really fired out of a cannon during this midterm election cycle, having a record high totals during those first couple days of early voting. As things stand right now, we are currently outpacing similar numbers that we saw in 2022, the last midterm election. The only thing that might be skewing that just a little bit in terms of the overall vote share and overall vote total is we did see, predominantly from Democrats in 2022, a lot of individuals voting via mail or voting absentee by mail here in North Carolina and not voting during that early voting period. At this point during the early voting period in 2022, there were 724 thousand plus ballots that were cast.
We are now at eight hundred and seventy-six thousand, according to the latest details from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. And we encourage you to keep track of this in your local area as well. You can visit carolinaelections dot com, click on the Vote Tracker tab, and you can dig into everything as it relates to early voting across your county here in North Carolina. That's going to do it for a Wednesday edition of the Carolina Journal News Hour. WBT.
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