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The recap of what can only be described as a historic twenty twenty six midterm election, not only here across North Carolina. But the rest of the nation, as Democrats surge to voting locations across the United States, handing a GOP candidates and GOP issues some of the largest defeats that we have seen in decades. Starting off at the top of the ticket, Roy Cooper, the former eight-year governor of North Carolina, will be the next United States senator from the Tar Heel state, winning. The U.S. Senate race by nearly twenty percentage points.
It is important to note that as we work through the program this morning and over the next couple of days, all election results will remain unofficial for the next ten days while the county canvass process takes place and any outstanding ballots are counted provisional. Any last-minute absentee by mail, however, in the race between former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper and The former head of the RNC and North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Wattley, a whopping eight hundred thousand-voted advantage for the former eight-year governor, who opened up right after polls closed and early voting totals started to flow in by thirty-seven percentage points. That race was over. The first of the United States Senate races to be called across the country. The vote tallies with more than 2,600 precincts in across North Carolina.
Roy Cooper with 58.71 percent of the vote to Michael Wattley with 39.10 an absolute walloping as it relates to elections. Roy Cooper will go on to be the first Democrat elected to the United States Senate in North Carolina since 2008. Moving a The ballot—an absolutely brutal night for congressional Republicans here in North Carolina. When we started the evening, it was Republicans that held ten of North Carolina's fourteen congressional districts; Democrats holding four. And we saw a complete flip.
And when it is all said and done, many of these races are still too close to call with very tight margins. It appears that Democrats. Democrats will have ten of North Carolina, North Carolina's fourteen congressional races, while Republicans could very well be left with just four. The only Republicans staving off Democrats Tuesday evening appear to be Greg Murphy in North Carolina's third congressional district, Congressman David Rouser in North Carolina's seventh, Mark Harris in North Carolina's eighth, and Republican Pat Harrigan. In North Carolina's tenth, taking a look at some of the other election results.
A tight race in North Carolina's first district. That is a rematch of the same contest we saw in 2024, with Don Davis retaining that seat. Looking to North Carolina's fifth congressional district. This one is incredibly close. Ninety-nine votes separating Virginia Fox, the Republican incumbent.
She is down to. Chuck Hubbard, the Democrat, there. Virginia Fox has been in Congress for nearly twenty years. A major upset in North Carolina's fifth congressional district. A similar story in the sixth, where Addison McDowell has lost to his Democrat challenger in Searial Jefferson.
That race is about a three and a half point advantage there, with one hundred ninety-five of one hundred ninety-five precincts reporting. Addison McDowell will not be returning to Washington D.C. in one of the more shocking races of the evening, and there are plenty that we'll work through as the remainder of the show rolls on. Richard Hudson, who is the chairman of the NRCC, the major fundraising and political arm of Republicans in Washington D.C., will also not be returning to the District of Columbia, losing to Richard O'Neda by about six. Thousand votes, fifty one point one percent to forty eight point eight percent in North Carolina's ninth congressional district, and out in the western half of the state, a contest that received a lot of attention in the final sixty days of the election.
After Chuck Edwards announced that he would not be seeking reelection, it will be Democrat Jamie Ager that will represent sixteen counties in western North Carolina, handedly beating. A Jennifer Balchum in that contest, fifty-seven point one percent to forty-one point three percent, a margin of about fifty-five thousand votes in Western North Carolina. The congressional delegation that has represented North Carolina for many years, the vast majority of them not making their way back to Washington D.C. seats that seemingly were safe heading into election night are in. Fact not as we look at some of the other contests that played out.
Even Tim Moore, who formerly was the Speaker of the North Carolina House, was not successful in his race in Congressional District 14, losing that contest by about 6,500 votes, 51.1 percent to 48.8 percent. There is going to be major shakeups in Washington D.C. as Democrats overwhelmingly now control. The United States House of Representatives, North Carolina, a large part of that. Here in state governments, Democrats flip the North Carolina House for the first time since 2010.
Important to note: once again, all election results are unofficial.
However, when the dust settles, it appears that Democrats will hold 70 of the 120 seats in the North Carolina House. When we started the evening, Republicans held 71 seats, looking at a complete reversal. Of the House Majority in Raleigh. Those results bearing out for Democrats there, and for those keeping power, keeping track of power here in North Carolina, it seemingly will be one vote in the North Carolina Senate that gives Republicans their majority. We still have some very close races that we are keeping an eye on in the North Carolina General Assembly, specifically the North Carolina Senate.
One race that really is likely to. Decide whether Republicans hold their majority or not is North Carolina Senate District Twenty Four. That is where Republican Danny Britt has a three hundred and thirty-two vote lead over a Democrat Kalina Ham in the House. Excuse me, Senate District Twenty Four. That was very much within the recount in the the margin territory that would be needed for.
Democrats and any sort of other election observers to decide to call for that recount. If it is not automatic, we will watch that process play out over the next ten days or so here in North Carolina, with many. Of these races and contests remaining incredibly close, other major Democrats, rather, that will not be returning to Raleigh includes State Senator Michael Lee from New Hanover County, who was seen to be on the short list of those to lead Senate Republicans after the primary loss we saw earlier this year in Rockingham and Guilford County, where Phil Berger lost that primary to Rockingham. County Sheriff Sam Page, Michael Lee, seen as one of the individuals to lead Republicans, lost his primary election in New Hanover County. That's Senate District Seven.
It's looking at a similar situation in Senate District Four, where Buck Newton also appears to have lost his race to Democrat Jessica Riviera. Other contests include Senate District Eleven, Representative Lisa Barnes, the incumbent there, losing by about five thousand. Votes. Other contests include Cabarrus County Senate District 34, where Kevin Crutchfield, formerly of the North Carolina House, went on to lose that race by more than 12,000 votes to Democrat April Cook. Regardless of what many of these final results and outcomes look like, a North Carolina General Assembly that will look dramatically different.
And unless you have been in North Carolina since 2010, following State politics, something that you have not seen, and a lot of North Carolinians have not seen since Republicans have controlled that majority since the 2010 midterm elections, holding either supermajorities or simple majorities in Raleigh in both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly, the House and the Senate. Democrats successfully in breaking up the majority in the House. Going to remain, all eyes will remain on the North. North Carolina Senate in what will remain to be some very close elections. All three of the constitutional amendments did pass here across North Carolina: a maximum income tax rate of three and a half percent that passed with nearly sixty-two percent of the vote; a constitutional amendment requiring photo ID for voting that passes with fifty-nine point five percent of the vote; and a constitutional amendment dealing with how large or how big a local governments can increase Property taxes year over year also appears to pass with sixty point four percent, and that is our top.
Those are our top line numbers as we kick off this post-election edition of the Carolina Journal News Hour. Coming up here in just a couple of minutes, we will be joined by live by Mitch Cokie from the John Locke Foundation to walk us through everything that he is seeing and following across North Carolina politics. Mitch Kogai joins us coming up here in just a couple of minutes. He was a champion, an icon, the original GOAT. But before Muhammad Ali became the greatest, he was Cassius Clay, a young man finding his voice, his purpose, and his place in the world.
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It's 5:21. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT. Continuing our coverage of what was a banner night for Democrats here in the state of North Carolina and in large part across the rest of the United States, we head on over to our WBT hotline this morning and say good morning to Mitch Koch, guy from the John Locke Foundation. Mitch, you have been following North Carolina politics. For decades, give us your overall reaction to what is just an absolutely brutal night for Republicans across the Tar Heel state.
Well, Nick, this is one of those historic elections that people are going to be talking about for a long time. The last one I can think of that's in the same category, as far as North Carolina is concerned, is probably the 2010 election, when fresh off of Major victories in 2008 for Barack Obama and Democrats across the country. You saw a major backlash, and in North Carolina, it led to what many before 2010 had thought was unthinkable, and that was Republicans not only gaining control of the General Assembly, both chambers, the State House and State Senate, but doing so with substantial margins. And I think that's probably the last election that we've seen in North Carolina that compares to to what we saw with the the results on Tuesday night. I think a lot of people going into the final stages of this election really thought there was a good chance that Democrats would take control of the North Carolina House.
They were really even Republicans, if not publicly, at least privately, were. Starting to admit that, I don't think they saw a 22 seat shift in the state house.
So giving the Democrats almost a veto-proof supermajority in the house, they don't really need it because the Democratic Governor Josh Stein will be their ally. But that is such a major monumental shift that no one really was looking at that. Also, the the race for Senate. I mean, I think. Going into this election, people thought once it was Roy Cooper versus Michael Wattley that it was Cooper's to win, but early on, people were saying because this is such a purple state.
Cooper maybe gets beyond the the five points that would be a a big win. Maybe he gets to seven or eight points once polls started putting him in double digits. Most people were saying, "Yeah," but a lot of a lot of those votes are people who are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with Michael Wattley and who would normally vote Republican, and they'll go back to him.
So maybe it's Cooper still wins comfortably, but. When the the Carolina Journal poll showed a 15 point margin, people were scoffing at it. Watley, of course, labeled it a trash poll.
Well, was the final margin something like 19 points? Was far beyond that. This this is going to be a monumental election that people will remember for years, and they'll probably remember years down the line. How both major parties and how voters react to what happened here? Do the parties listen to what voters have to say, or do they go back to their respective corners, do what they have done before, and then reap the consequences in twenty twenty eight?
Results do remain unofficial this morning.
However, when it is all said and done, it appears that Republicans or Democrats, excuse me, will have around seventy seats in the North Carolina House compared to just forty-nine Republicans. Will be keeping an eye on that in the North Carolina Senate, likely just a one-vote majority. Twenty-six Republicans seats, likely twenty-four Democrat. Mitch, let's transition over to the United States House of Representatives. Twenty-four hours ago, if you were You and I were having a conversation.
There would have been ten Republicans representing North Carolina's fourteen congressional districts, compared to just four Democrats. And while a couple of these races do remain incredibly close, we are looking at a literal mirror of that image: ten Democrats and likely only four Republicans. Virginia Fox, Tim Moore, many other high-profile Republicans, Richard Hudson losing their races. I don't think anybody had that on their bingo card last night at all. No, maybe the the folks who work for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in their wildest dreams thought this would happen.
Going into the the cycle, of course, you'll remember Republicans redrew a map at President Donald Trump's behest in order to get him another Republican member of Congress. The old map had a ten-four Republican lean. They redrew the map to make the first district more Republican. In the process, making the third district a little less Republican, and the idea was to try to get an 11-3 map for Republicans. No one expected that that map would produce a 10-4 map for Democrats.
But you know that that is the type of thing that happens in a wave year. The other thing that came to mind as I was watching these results is. Democrats across the board have to be happy about what they achieved in this election. There's one group of Democrats that's not going to be happy, and that's the group that files redistricting lawsuits because they always argue that the maps are destiny, and whatever is drawn on the map, that is going to guarantee the outcome, and that's going to hurt voters.
Well, this election shows that that the maps are not destiny. A map can be drawn with the express intent of electing 11 Republicans and three Democrats. And if voters turn out, they don't like the message that the Republicans have. If Democrats put forward stronger candidates than they have in the past, if the political winds are moving in their favor. The voters are the ones who have the final say, and they did.
And it looks like it's going to be a 10-4 map with the potential of one or two of those races being close enough that they would flip. But still, I don't think there's any chance that you're going to have a congressional delegation with a majority of Republicans. It's going to be a Democratic delegation with a Republican-drawn map. Yeah, and those four Republicans that appear to have held on, at least as of right now, are Greg Murphy in North Carolina's third congressional district, David Rouser in North Carolina's seventh, Mark Harris in North Carolina's eighth, and Pat Harrigan in North Carolina's tenth. All of the other ten seats here in North Carolina will likely, and again, we'll watch this play out over the next ten days, Mitch.
I'm sure we'll be chatting about a lot of lawsuits, a lot of questions over some of these ballot returns in the coming. Days real quick before we let you go. What do you think the next month and a half looks like here in North Carolina politics?
Well, I think in terms of what is happening at the state level, first you got to see the Republicans after they get over the shock. Do they decide that they want to do a whole lot in a lame duck session? Because basically, if Republicans are going to get anything done, this is the time to do it. And remember, if they want to get something done in the House. They would have to have some help from, if not Democrats, at least former Democrats who were mad about the way they were treated by their party.
And I'm not sure that that's that's going to happen. But that's something we ought to be watching out for. Absolutely, Mitch. Thanks for your insight this morning. We'll be catching up in the coming days as we watch these results go from unofficial to official.
Appreciate you joining us this morning on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Thank you, Nick. It's 5:35. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT. Continuing our coverage of midterm election day, 2026, here on the Carolina Journal News Hour, we head back to our phone lines and give a very early good morning to Dr.
Andy Jackson from the John Locke Foundation. Andy, I don't think in anybody's wildest dreams they saw the elections unfolding here in North Carolina. Like they did last night, results will remain unofficial for the next ten days. Give us your overall reaction of what we saw last night. Overall reaction is that we basically had presidential year turnout from Democrats and their allies among unaffiliated voters, and Republicans had more of a typical midterm turnout.
And I think that difference in motivation is what you see here. We were, you know, we've been talking about this data, you know, for weeks now. And what we were expecting, what we're looking at, and what we didn't know, one of the questions that we had is, were these unaffiliates that were turning out in early voting, were they going to go disproportionately Democrat compared to earlier elections? We now have an answer. The answer is yes.
We also had the question of would Republicans show up proportionately to the numbers that we saw on Election Day, proportionately to what we saw with early voting from Democrats and unaffiliated. And the answer there is no. Michael Watley won the Election Day vote, but he only won it by about 16,000 votes, which is obviously a lot less than a Republican needs in a statewide election. Andy, when we got the early voting totals first started to pour in around eight twenty last evening, when that election first opened, and we got about two million votes into that contest, Roy Cooper had a thirty-seven percent advantage over Michael Waltley. I don't know that we've ever seen a tally that high in a major U.S.
Senate race or a major congressional race of this level. Were you shocked when you saw that early voting drop? I mean, it was a lot bigger than I was expecting. I was thinking, okay, Cooper will probably start off with four hundred thousand, maybe half million, and and coast on to a pretty easy win, you know, somewhere between you know five and ten percent. I was not expecting this.
You know, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, and this is pretty much what Republicans got in election results here. There's a a lot of things that went wrong on the Republican side, and it really is about turnout. The the Republican base was not motivated to get out the same way the Democratic base was, and persuasion, unaffiliated by the evidence that we're seeing here have gone on the Democratic side, and these were. Probably unaffiliateds who are basically closet Democrats, anyhow. That's the way that works.
And the unaffiliateds who lean Republican were also demotivated. And when I say demotivated, I just mean normal level of voting. They just didn't have the same high level of motivation that Democratic voters, both in the party and among unaffiliated voters, had. Andy, one of the metrics and things that we've talked about over the last couple of months has been the CPI. That's the Civitas Partisan Index.
We looked at about 22 North Carolina House races and about six races in the North Carolina Senate that you had deemed as the the one that is responsible for the CPI. That seemed like they could be at risk of four Republicans, Democrats seemingly not only overperforming many of those metrics, but we saw districts that were. R plus six, R plus seven, falling, which weren't even on lists that we were really keeping an eye on. Were you shocked with the results of the North Carolina General Assembly races?
Well, certainly, this is highly unusual.
So, I've learned not to get really shocked, as it were, by these kind of things. But I was certainly surprised. You know, I one of the things I've been saying is that even though there were a couple of these Senate races that. You know they were on the list, but I thought, okay, I don't because of the past election performances, I don't see Buck Newton losing in his district out in eastern North Carolina, and I thought Danny Britt would probably carry his district also in eastern North Carolina pretty easily.
Well, Buck Newton apparently is out, and and Danny Britt's only holding on by like about three hundred votes, roughly, and so. And we still have we have a lot of absentee votes left to count. We also have some provisionals to count. Not a lot, I should say. We we have a fair number now.
Britt probably has enough, but you're looking at Greg Murphy, who's only up by a couple hundred votes. When we get into some of the absentee votes that are remaining to count, especially the overseas and military votes, some that came in late. Today and are not counting counted, along with some provisionals, we may have to revisit that race as well. Andy, for those looking at results today and over the next couple of days, they will see the big bold letters "unofficial" next to those results. We'll talk about this more in the coming days here on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
But right off the top, how long will these results remain unofficial, and what can we expect over the next ten days here in North Carolina?
Well, they're going to remain unofficial until we have the county canvasses, which take place on not this Friday but next Friday, and so that's when they switch over to official.
Now we will know, with the exception of a relatively tiny handful of military and overseas votes. We're going to know who's going to win based on the unofficial count.
Well, for most races, we already know, but for some of these very close ones, we'll know by this Friday because that's the time when the county boards are supposed to have their provisional and all of their remaining absentee ballots reported, and they'll be in the state board of elections site where we can go in and look at that.
So we should have a pretty good feel for all, but the very, very, very like. A couple, like a dozen votes, different race, you know, results by this Friday, and won't be official. But if there's a big change from what we see really this morning to what we see during the canvas, that means that there was some problem with the count, and I'm not really expecting that.
So I think we'll have a good idea certainly by Friday. Can you quickly talk on? I saw you posting on social media. There is some questions going on in Wilson County. There seemed to be maybe a double or triplicate upload of some of their data there.
That that county is very relevant, as you mentioned. Buck Newton in Eastern North Carolina, who seemingly will lose his seat in the North Carolina Senate by about fifteen twenty five hundred votes or so. And I saw you posting about that. Any idea what went on there? Not yet.
I do know that we've had histories of this, and this this does happen. There was a time a couple years ago where Robeson County didn't count one of their early voting machines. They were those ballots were still sitting in the tabulator on election day. We had Washington County a couple of years ago double count some of their absentee ballots.
So these kind of mistakes do happen, and it does appear that the Wilson County Board of Elections has fixed that problem.
So I'm feeling pretty confident that the numbers we're seeing on the board at the State Board of Elections office at this time are accurate, and you know from there we'll proceed to to the rest of those counts the rest of this week. Andy, during the March primary, we did see some very close races. The one, obviously, that had the most significance was the Senate district in Rockingham and Northern Guilford County, where Phil Berger, the President Pro Tem of the North Carolina Senate, would end up going on to lose his Republican primary to Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page. There was a lot of lawyering up taking place in that race back in March. Do you suspect in some of these tight races that we're going to see a similar situation unfolding?
We could now. One of the things that I had noted is that Mark Elias, he's this Democratic attorney that often is involved in North Carolina politics, had been making noise about some of the rules regarding the counting of absentee ballots and making sure that the security envelopes for absentee ballots are sealed. If we find out that there's a fairly large number of Ballots that were not counted because they were not sealed in the security envelopes properly, and that margin is big enough to potentially affect a race. If those ballots were counted, we could expect to see a lawsuit on that front. But this is North Carolina.
We have a lot, always have some close races somewhere, and that's always a reason for somebody to sue. Yeah, no question about that. We will be following and keeping an eye on that. One more time, Andy, if you'll just recap for us: when will these results go official, and when will we begin to see the dust settling? Dust settling will be this Friday when the provisionals and the last of the absentee ballots are counted.
Official next Friday at the county campus. Andy, you are a wealth of knowledge. Appreciate all of your time over the last couple of weeks. We will continue chatting over the next ten days or so as we watch this process play out in North Carolina as well. Appreciate you joining us live here this morning on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
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Good morning again. It's five fifty. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, one hundred seven point nine FM, WBT. Continuing our coverage of Election Night, twenty twenty-six midterm election night here across the state of North Carolina. No other nice way to put it, but a major night for Democrats across the state.
We start off at the top. Of the ticket once again, where Roy Cooper, the former eight-year governor here in North Carolina, will be the first Democrat elected to the state to the United States Senate from the Tar Heel state since 2008. That race again results unofficial at this point, as we just heard from Doctor Andy Jackson. Regardless of that, about an eight hundred thousand vote margin between Cooper and Watley in this race, a nearly nine 15 percentage point advantage for Roy Cooper. Carolina Journal polling showed this to be a double-digit race.
I don't believe there was a single public poll, however, in North Carolina that showed a margin this large. Carolina Journal's, I think, was the largest back just two months ago. showed a Cooper with a 15 point advantage. We did hear from Cooper at, excuse me, we did hear from Watley. At that time, criticizing the Carolina Journal, claiming that we needed to hire a new pollster and that our poll was dead wrong.
Well, it seems like that is going to end up being one of the more accurate polls of this United States Senate race. As Roy Cooper will be heading up to Washington D.C. and serving as one of our two Republican senators here in North Carolina, we now transition over to congressional races—a banner night for Democrats across. The state of North Carolina, picking off multiple Republican to congressional districts that seemingly were not at play. At least, I don't think publicly anybody would have thought.
As we look at a very close race in North Carolina's third congressional district, Greg Murphy up in that contest by less than three hundred votes, about two hundred and fifty to be exact, in congressional district three. That is in portions of eastern North. Carolina, Virginia Fox, who has served in Congress for some twenty-one years, seemingly has lost her reelection bid in the fifth congressional district. That is razor thin as well, just ninety-nine votes separating Chuck Hubbard, the Democrat. Virginia Fox trails by ninety-nine.
We will see provisionals and any additional absentee ballots. Over the next couple of days, and so we could see very clearly a recount threshold in margin in that race in North Carolina's fifth congressional district.
However, it doesn't appear that we'll see that in the sixth, where Addison McDowell is down at this point about sixty five hundred votes to Suriel Jefferson, the Democrat in North Carolina's sixth congressional district. And moving on to North Carolina's seventh, David Rouser is up by about two hundred. About two thousand three hundred votes, twenty three hundred votes in North Carolina's seventh congressional district. He is one of the just four Republicans that are likely to hold on to their congressional races after these midterm elections. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the NRCC, the major political and fundraising arm for the Republicans in Washington D.C., has fallen in his race to Richard O'Neda.
In congressional district nine, currently trailing by about six thousand votes, with all of those precincts reporting that contest is over. There, Pat Harrigan narrowly holding on in the tenth congressional district, up by a little more than three thousand votes against Ashley Bell, the Democrat candidate there. Jamie Ager, out in North Carolina's 11th congressional district, 16 counties that make up NC 11, went on to the largest margin of any of the competitive House races here in North Carolina, winning 57 to 41 percent against a representative, a Jennifer Balkum of the North Carolina General Assembly. Brad Nott is seemingly out in North Carolina's 13th congressional district, looking. At the margin, there of about seven thousand votes, Paul Beringer will likely be going to Washington D.C.
In North Carolina's thirteenth, and finally, Tim Moore, who had only served one term in Congress after serving many years as the House Majority Leader here in North Carolina, will not be returning to Washington D.C. He will once again call the Tar Heel state home after losing that contest by about sixty-five. Votes to LaKeisha Womack in North Carolina's fourteenth congressional district a night. That started with Republicans holding ten of North Carolina's fourteen congressional districts. It is a mere reflection of that this morning, with Democrats seemingly now holding ten of those seats.
They could pick up an additional one with Greg Murphy's, with that very tight margin there. Transitioning over to the North Carolina General Assembly, a banner night for Democrats, also seeing for the first time since 2010 controlling. Either chamber of the general assembly in Raleigh. When all the dust settles, it appears that Republicans, Democrats, excuse me, will hold 70 seats in the North Carolina House to around 49 Democrats.
However, the firewall does appear to be in the North Carolina Senate, where Republicans have apparently reached the 26 vote threshold needed to hold a simple majority. That is going to come down to a Senate. District. Here in North Carolina, looking at a Senate District 24, that is where Danny Britt is currently up by 300 votes in that contest, which includes portions of Hoke, Scotland, and Robeson County. There is a very real possibility, as we will continue to watch any additional provisional and absentee ballots flowing in, that that race gets even closer.
But as it stands right now. Danny Britt will be the firewall between Democrats controlling the Governor's Mansion, the North Carolina House, and the North Carolina Senate. In what can only be described as an absolutely brutal night for Republicans here across the state of North Carolina, getting swept and losing local elections all across the state as well. There's going to be a lot of analysis. We'll be keeping an eye on all of that in the coming weeks, right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
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