Trump Train may have left GOP North Carolina governor behind

According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, 100 percent of precincts in the state are reporting and have Democratic candidate Roy Cooper as the victor of the race.

“That said, he clearly benefited from the large white and rural turnout for Trump – especially given that voters disagreed with many of his stances on the issues”, he said.

“At this moment, it is more critical than ever that we speak with the loudest voices possible”, she said. For a complete timeline of North Carolina’s post-election process, the State Board of Elections released the following: State Board of Elections released the following post-election process: 1. Wake County judge Mike Morgan defeated Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds, thus flipping the high court Democratic.

McCrory signed one of the most restrictive vote suppression laws in the country, a law that meant to suppress minority votes “with surgical precision.” concern for every vote to be counted is wrought with tragic irony. No one voted for Stein. The state board denied that request, but extended voting for 20 minutes to 45 minutes at some precincts. He lost the county – and the general election – in his first run for governor in 2008. Results in each contest are not considered official until that date. “We know that this is part of a bigger trend-a movement to suppress people’s right to vote”, the Rev. Dante Murphy, the county NAACP president, told the report’s authors. About two dozen other North Carolina counties using the same software have not reported any problems.

The Durham County Board of Elections wants to extend voting by 90 minutes because of problems that are creating lines there and is putting together the evidence to show the extension is needed. The surrounding county is about 30 percent black and 60 percent white.

Attempts to contact Dan Kiger, Surry County Republican Party chair, for comment were not immediately successful.

That number may shift when the state’s election results are finalized after the November 18 canvass. The board must grant them automatically in cases in which the difference between candidates in statewide races is less than 10,000 votes.

The race is one of the most competitive in the country and marks the best chance for Democrats to flip a state led by a Republican chief executive.

Absentee ballots postmarked by 5 p.m. Tuesday and received by 5 p.m. Monday will be counted.

The law known as HB2 is also divisive.

Causey received 38,660 votes more votes than Democratic incumbent Wayne Goodwin. “Because everyone feels like getting just pushed around”, he said. Counties must conduct their hand-to-eye counts in public.

On both ends of the political spectrum, many voters say they’re more engaged than they’ve been in a while. She didn’t have an estimate on how many left the line. Some evacuations have been ordered in five counties.

“My mom’s a teacher”, she said.

Republican Dale Folwell is set to become North Carolina’s next treasurer, replacing Janet Cowell, who endorsed his opponent, Dan Blue.

“Pat McCrory’s historic defeat is a beacon of hope for equality”, the duo said. Unofficial totals indicate that almost three million people have already voted.

Though Donald Trump and Sen.

Romney won the state in 2012, receiving 50.39 percent of the vote with Barack Obama taking 48.35 percent.

With all precincts reporting in North Carolina, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper is up approximately 5,001 votes over incumbent Gov.

“What no one predicted was that Republicans would make such major gains on the Council of State, possibly sweeping every Democrat away except Secretary of State Elaine Marshall”, he said.