I recently got to serve as moderator for one of the “N.C. Trusted Elections Tour” events in Albemarle.

House District 62 is one of the most competitive legislative districts in Guilford County, but it’s one where the incumbent Republican has weathered challenging campaigns before.

Outside ad spending continues to pour into North Carolina, much of it coming from Republican-aligned groups backing U.S. Rep. Ted Budd for Senate and Bo Hines in the state’s most competitive congressional race.

WRAL reporter Bryan Anderson published a fascinating, highly detailed profile of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson over the weekend.

Emerson College Polling has a new survey out on the U.S. Senate race, and it’s got Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd with a slight lead over Democrat Cheri Beasley that remains within the poll’s margin of error. It shows a tighter race than the pollsters’ last survey back in May.

Senate District 24 is one of only four “toss-up” Senate districts under the new maps, according to ratings by the conservative John Locke Foundation. But despite that, the race has gotten relatively little attention compared to other competitive contests.

One of the Triangle’s most competitive N.C. Senate races is getting negative. This week, District 18 Democratic candidate Mary Wills Bode launched a new TV ad attacking the business record of her Republican opponent, E.C. Sykes. The district includes northern Wake and Granville counties.

There will be a U.S. Senate debate after all this year – but likely only one.

The N.C. Democratic Party is criticizing U.S. Rep. Ted Budd for attending an event in Rockingham County named for former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.

The name “North Carolinians for Personal Freedom” sounds like it might be a conservative advocacy group. But that’s not who’s behind new TV and online ads encouraging supporters of abortion rights to vote in state elections this year.

District 9 is the most competitive legislative district in the Greenville area, as first-term Rep. Brian Farkas seeks to defend the seat he flipped from the GOP in 2020.

District 17 is one of the only competitive Senate districts in increasingly blue Wake County, and it’s a key seat for Republicans to flip in order to get a supermajority.

The ad war is heating up with two months to go before the U.S. Senate election. The Senate Leadership Fund – the Super PAC led by Sen. Mitch McConnell and national Republicans – is spending $2.48 million on TV ads and $763,000 on online ads attacking Democratic candidate Cheri Beasley.

This district in northeastern North Carolina is one of the places House Republicans hope to flip in order to win a supermajority.

The advocacy group Common Cause filed a federal lawsuit recently seeking to overturn a state law that makes all state and county elections board members either Democrats or Republicans.