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Big crowd at the home of @NC_Governor for the bill signing for #medicaidexpansion Cooper acknowledges efforts of advocates for the past decade in pushing for the policy. 
Senate leader @SenatorBerger speaking now, “we see this as an opportunity to chipping away at rules the limit access to care” #ncga
NEW from me @TheSpectator:
I’m at today’s long awaited @tiktok_us hearing, where the Communist spyware CEO is going to gaslight America
He’s now on on Cap Hill with a Socialist Congressman and a Biden-tied Mao lover's firm in his pockets
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I’m at today’s long awaited @tiktok_us hearing, where the Communist spyware CEO is going to gaslight America
He’s now on on Cap Hill with a Socialist Congressman and a Biden-tied Mao lover's firm in his pockets
thespectator.com/topic/tiktok-f…
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TikTok’s CEO is gearing up for a grilling in Congress, but he’s got some new, powerful allies in his corner: a political consulting firm whose founder lavished praise on Mao Zedong and is now one of Biden’s top aides — and a socialist congressman who thespectator.com/topic/tiktok-f…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Shou Zi Chew, the company’s CEO, is at @HouseCommerce, where Republicans are planning to press him on the national security concerns posed by the video app’s parent company ByteDance’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
thespectator.com/topic/tiktok-f…
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Democrats and politics professors are talking about the 2022 election at progressive group @ForwardCarolina
event in downtown Raleigh. #ncpol
event in downtown Raleigh. #ncpol
.@JessicaHolmesNC, former Wake County Commissioners Chair, said that parties aren't turning out anyone who doesn't already turn out. Wake and Meck turnout wasn't high.
Holmes touted #ncga Democratic wins in Wake, including @Bode4Senate and @friendsforbatch. #ncpol
Holmes touted #ncga Democratic wins in Wake, including @Bode4Senate and @friendsforbatch. #ncpol
Duke University professor Mac McCorkle said if Democrats don't expand beyond the cities, they'll be "sitting ducks for gerrymandering."
Congratulations @TedBuddNC!
Ted Budd has been an ardent defender of life in the House, defending the rights of unborn babies and advocating for the safety & security of their mothers. We look forward to seeing him continue his good work in the Senate! #NCSen #LifeWins22
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Ted Budd has been an ardent defender of life in the House, defending the rights of unborn babies and advocating for the safety & security of their mothers. We look forward to seeing him continue his good work in the Senate! #NCSen #LifeWins22
1/7
Budd stood firmly for life:
“I’ve always been pro-life. Cheri Beasley supports abortion at any time, for any reason, all the way until the moment of birth – and at taxpayer expense. That's wildly out of step with where North Carolinians are.”
2/7
“I’ve always been pro-life. Cheri Beasley supports abortion at any time, for any reason, all the way until the moment of birth – and at taxpayer expense. That's wildly out of step with where North Carolinians are.”
2/7
Senator-elect @TedBuddNC has been a leader for life as an initial cosponsor of @LindseyGrahamSC’s 15-week abortion limit. We look forward to continuing working with him to advance this popular, commonsense legislation in the Senate.
3/7
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What is the best song about each swing state for tomorrow? Putting together a playlist
For #NCSen: Raise up! Take Your Shirt off, Twist it 'round your head! Spin it like a helicopter by @DaRealPetey
@DaRealPetey For #OHSen, a namesake song for @TimRyan's hometown, Youngstown, which is incidentally becoming redder and the song kind of explains the desolation that motivated the WWC to vote for Trump.
Recapping the Senate spending over the last few hrs, Chuck Schumer's Senate Majority PAC and its Georgia Honor affiliate dropped $16.27M in 7 races....
#PASen $4,264,866
#GASen $3,227,382
#AZSen $2,076,036
#NVSen $2,017,685
#WISen $1,777,623
#NHSen $1,733,888
#NCSen $1,175,122
#PASen $4,264,866
#GASen $3,227,382
#AZSen $2,076,036
#NVSen $2,017,685
#WISen $1,777,623
#NHSen $1,733,888
#NCSen $1,175,122
...Democratic group Future Forward PAC logged $2,046,894 in the #PASen race...
Two of the House Republicans who voted to try to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election are running for the U.S. Senate this year.
Both Ted Budd (#NCSen) and Markwayne Mullin (#OKSen) voted to exclude the electors in Arizona as well as the electors in Pennsylvania.
Both Ted Budd (#NCSen) and Markwayne Mullin (#OKSen) voted to exclude the electors in Arizona as well as the electors in Pennsylvania.
In addition, both of these Senate candidates signed onto a Supreme Court Amicus Brief which asked the Court to throw out the results in four different states which Trump lost (Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin).
In Budd’s case, this means that the Republican Senate candidate in a state Trump barely won (NC was the state Trump won by the slimmest margin) tried to get the election tossed out in his neighboring state, Georgia, which Trump lost (GA borders NC).
Did you know that:
A) There is a House GOP bill called 'The Life at Conception Act' (H.R. 1011) - also known as a 'personhood' bill - that would declare life as starting at ‘the moment of fertilization'?
B) Of its 166 co-sponsors, many are running in very close races?
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A) There is a House GOP bill called 'The Life at Conception Act' (H.R. 1011) - also known as a 'personhood' bill - that would declare life as starting at ‘the moment of fertilization'?
B) Of its 166 co-sponsors, many are running in very close races?
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Co-sponsor: TED BUDD
Race: #NCSen
Democratic opponent: CHERI BEASLEY (@CheriBeasleyNC)
Donate:
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Race: #NCSen
Democratic opponent: CHERI BEASLEY (@CheriBeasleyNC)
Donate:
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Co-sponsor: MIKE GARCIA
Race: #CA27
Democratic opponent: CHRISTY SMITH (@ChristySmithCA)
Donate:
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Race: #CA27
Democratic opponent: CHRISTY SMITH (@ChristySmithCA)
Donate:
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🚨Democrats Threatening Democracy🚨 #ncpol
1) Democrats on NC Supreme Court deny 2018 election results, take steps to throw out constitutional amendments approved by millions of NC voters.
apnews.com/b7f91cdc8dd7ee…
1) Democrats on NC Supreme Court deny 2018 election results, take steps to throw out constitutional amendments approved by millions of NC voters.
apnews.com/b7f91cdc8dd7ee…
2) The Democratic Governors Association, led by @RoyCooperNC, is spending millions to boost candidates they claim endanger democracy. #ncpol
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
3) #NCSEN candidate Cheri Beasley caught trying to count only Democratic votes in her race for NC Supreme Court Chief Justice. #ncpol
newsobserver.com/news/politics-…
newsobserver.com/news/politics-…
BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit against the NC State Board of Elections' corrupt, lawless, and partisan decision to keep the Green Party off the ballot - even though we submitted over 2000 verified signatures more than required by law.
Read and retweet:
matthewhohforsenate.org/lawsuit/
Read and retweet:
matthewhohforsenate.org/lawsuit/
This case will determine whether the political establishment can abuse its power to stop another party from participating in elections, simply because they don’t want to compete with candidates who stand for working people, our planet, peace, and real democracy.
All 3 Democrats on @NCSBE voted to keep @NorthCarolinaGP off the ballot. This was after the @dscc targeted people who signed NCGP's petition to try to remove their names. In many cases, signers were contacted by unknown operatives who falsely claimed to represent the Green Party.
It looks like the vendor the Green Party paid to collect signatures for its petition to get on NC's US Senate ballot, First Choice Consulting, is the same one implicated in the massive Republican signature forgery scandal unfolding in Michigan.
bridgemi.com/michigan-gover… #ncpol
bridgemi.com/michigan-gover… #ncpol
Basically, First Choice Consulting, which has a history of fraud, collected tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures for GOP candidates running for governor in Michigan. They got caught, and now 5 of those candidates have been disqualified.
axios.com/local/detroit/… #ncpol
axios.com/local/detroit/… #ncpol
Here's video from Mar-a-Lago yesterday of former President Trump saying Putin is "pretty smart" to invade Ukraine. @TedBuddNC's campaign confirms he was in the audience, as American Bridge's tweet noted, and I'll drop a campaign statement in this thread. #ncpol #NCSen
From the Budd campaign:
The "minor incursion" reference is to something Biden said in January: latimes.com/politics/story…
This helped Dole in 2008: she lost by 8.5% that year, but improved in swaths of southeastern NC. The dark red swing in Robeson is the Lumbee precincts. White Dems in rural Columbus were drifting away by then, too. Hagan still carried the area, but a pro-R trend was there #ncsen
it's rare that I do a map that doesn't make Hagan look good, but this probably had more to do with Dole 😅
Plus these two counties would have been Trump +22% last year, so a Dem winning it by 20% looks impressive by today's standards.
#ncsen budget proposal bumps up #childcare center reimbursement by 2%, with increase intended to go to teacher salaries. #ncga #ncpol
#NCsen budget increases the #medicaid Innovations Waiver slots by 420 this fall, by another 580 in 2022, subject to @CMSGov approval, etc. distributed statewide.
There are 15,000 on wait list that is often >10 years long. #ncga #ncpol
There are 15,000 on wait list that is often >10 years long. #ncga #ncpol
@CMSGov #NCsen budget allows for postpartum women to remain on #Medicaid for up to 12 months. Starts in 2022, allowed for under #AmericanRescuePlan
#NCGA once again rejecting #Medicaidexpansion despite federal incentives northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/03/18/med…
#NCGA once again rejecting #Medicaidexpansion despite federal incentives northcarolinahealthnews.org/2021/03/18/med…
First up from the #ncsen budget: state/ county special assistance #medicaid rates for adult care homes unchanged. Last time we saw a budget, it was $1182 for regular residents, $1515 for people with dementia. #ncga
And the personal needs allowance for residents in those facilities goes from $46/ month to $70
We wrote about this back in 2019, two years later, the bump up remains the same. northcarolinahealthnews.org/2019/06/24/fun…
We wrote about this back in 2019, two years later, the bump up remains the same. northcarolinahealthnews.org/2019/06/24/fun…
$1.5M in one-time funding for #telepsychiatry program run out of @EastCarolina (NC-STeP) to continue #mentalhealth response to #COVID19 #ncga #NCSen budget
#ncsen budget does not do #medicaidexpansion but uses #ARP funds to allow for #Medicaid extended #postpartum coverage for up to 12 months #NCGA also adds 1000 #innovationswaiver slots for #peoplewithdisabilities
Cohen going over the metrics. Reiterates the Bring Summer Back Bribe: 2/3 vax'd with 1 dose = indoor mask mandate gets lifted
CDC guidance: outdoor masks not required
#NCpol
CDC guidance: outdoor masks not required
#NCpol
HHS Sec. Mandy Cohen:
J&J is available again.
Bringing Summer Back vax campaign launching. Please promote & help bring summer back.
J&J is available again.
Bringing Summer Back vax campaign launching. Please promote & help bring summer back.
NEW: GOP voters have taken a dimmer view of most of their senators in recent months amid all that's happened since Nov. 3.
It underscores DJT's hold on the base as the Senate GOP looks to 1) avoid contentious primary elections and 2) win in '22. Deep dive morningconsult.com/2021/02/16/gop…
It underscores DJT's hold on the base as the Senate GOP looks to 1) avoid contentious primary elections and 2) win in '22. Deep dive morningconsult.com/2021/02/16/gop…
In South Dakota, Senate Republican Whip John Thune saw his approval rating with GOP voters fall 16 points since Election Day, and only 22% of his party's voters back him "strongly" morningconsult.com/2021/02/16/gop… #SDSen
In Missouri, Josh Hawley's brand is on much stronger footing than Roy Blunt's with Republican voters as strategists believe the senior senator to be particularly vulnerable to a primary challenger. morningconsult.com/2021/02/16/gop… #MOSen
"If negotiating a post-Donald-Trump world has been a disorienting experience for Republicans around the country, it is especially acute in NC, a state that has become a polarized, and nearly deadlocked, partisan battleground."
However...1/2 nytimes.com/2021/02/14/us/… #ncpol #ncsen
However...1/2 nytimes.com/2021/02/14/us/… #ncpol #ncsen
2/2:
“'The G.O.P. base is getting smaller,' said Paul Shumaker, a veteran party strategist in Raleigh."
#ncpol #ncsen
nytimes.com/2021/02/14/us/…
“'The G.O.P. base is getting smaller,' said Paul Shumaker, a veteran party strategist in Raleigh."
#ncpol #ncsen
nytimes.com/2021/02/14/us/…
Granted, the GOP base is composed of both registered Republicans + registered unaffiliated voters who vote GOP.
But since November, the greatest # of defections from party registration has been among registered Republicans in NC's 7M voters (data courtesy of @NCSBE):
But since November, the greatest # of defections from party registration has been among registered Republicans in NC's 7M voters (data courtesy of @NCSBE):
The first U.S. Senator I ever interviewed and a juggernaut campaigner. @madeline_will and I prepped for my interview with her the week before and had been planning for months on end before it. May she Rest In Peace.
I feel like @jmilescoleman would horsewhip me if I didn’t mention that she outran Barack Obama in 2008. I doubt that could happen today as NC’s rural areas become redder. Her loss in 2014 was a product of a changing state and a bad year for Dems. #NCPol
Meanwhile, *I* will horsewhip anyone who compares North Carolina to Georgia. More of NC’s population is rural and while a lot of that rural population is Black, there are fewer than Georgia. #NCSen
Mitch McConnell's @Senate_Fund dropping over $22.5M in eight races tonight:
6,121,824->#NCSen
4,505,936->#GASen
3,636,248->#IASen
3,275,192->#AKSen
2,579,361->#MTSen
1,255,998->#MESen
1,008,765->#COSen
138,632->#KSSen
fec.gov/data/committee…
6,121,824->#NCSen
4,505,936->#GASen
3,636,248->#IASen
3,275,192->#AKSen
2,579,361->#MTSen
1,255,998->#MESen
1,008,765->#COSen
138,632->#KSSen
fec.gov/data/committee…
Independent expenditures in the North Carolina Senate race are about to hit $150 million
Rough approximation of the total Senate IE spending over the entire 2020 cycle so far:
$146M - North Carolina
$107M - Iowa
$76M - Georgia (Both races)
$74M - Montana
$70M - Maine
$58M - Arizona
$54M - Michigan
$31M - Colorado
$30M - Kansas
$19M - South Carolina
$15M - Alaska
$146M - North Carolina
$107M - Iowa
$76M - Georgia (Both races)
$74M - Montana
$70M - Maine
$58M - Arizona
$54M - Michigan
$31M - Colorado
$30M - Kansas
$19M - South Carolina
$15M - Alaska
CNN can confirm @newsobserver’s #ncsen reporting: Democrat Cal Cunningham says he sent romantic texts to a woman who isn’t his wife. His full statement below:
Here’s the @newsobserver report: newsobserver.com/news/politics-…
The texts appear to have first surfaced Thursday on @NationalFile nationalfile.com/exclusive-nort…
NC GOP Senator Thom Tillis, who is a Judiciary Cmte member & running for re-election on the current SCOTUS vacancy: “Four years ago, a Supreme Court vacancy arose under divided government and a lame-duck president as Americans were choosing his successor.”
Tillis (R-NC): “Today, however, President Trump is again facing voters at the ballot box and North Carolinians will ultimately render their judgment on his presidency and how he chooses to fill the vacancy.”
Tillis: “There is a clear choice on future of Supreme Court btwn well-qualified & conservative jurist Pres Trump will nominate & I will support & liberal activist Joe Biden will nominate & Cal Cunningham will support,who will legislate radical,left-wing policies from the bench.”
NEW.
Powerful new testimonial TV ad about Sen. Thom Tillis looking out for the drug companies instead of patients & their families
from Patients for Affordable Drugs (@P4ADNOW)
Hear from Steven, himself -->
#NCSen
Powerful new testimonial TV ad about Sen. Thom Tillis looking out for the drug companies instead of patients & their families
from Patients for Affordable Drugs (@P4ADNOW)
Hear from Steven, himself -->
#NCSen
2 more power ads from @P4ADNOW revealing how Thom Tillis sides with profits of drug companies, not prices for patients.
First, Danielle whose drug prices have skyrocketing and she can't afford house/family if Tillis gets his way.
First, Danielle whose drug prices have skyrocketing and she can't afford house/family if Tillis gets his way.
Second, the story of how Thom Tillis helps the price go up for the most expensive prescription drug.
