The residency challenge against Democratic Senate candidate Valerie Jordan cleared its first hurdle on Wednesday. According to a tweet from Daily Advance reporter Paul Nielsen, the Currituck County Board of Elections voted unanimously to establish probable cause and schedule a hearing next Tuesday.

After something of a summertime lull (at least compared to primary season), outside spending is flooding back into the U.S. Senate race.

Democratic Senate candidate Valerie Jordan responded Tuesday to her opponent’s attempt to have her candidacy thrown out, calling Rep. Bobby Hanig’s allegation that she doesn’t live in the district “baseless.”

The Senate district that includes northern Wake and Granville counties is considered a must-win for Democrats to avoid a GOP supermajority, and so far their candidate, nonprofit leader and attorney Mary Wills Bode, has a sizable fundraising advantage.

The curious case of Attorney General Josh Stein’s legal trouble over a 2020 campaign ad and a nearly century-old law keeps getting stranger.

No one has formally announced their candidacy for governor in 2024 yet, but the latest round of campaign finance reports from the likely contenders shows the race is well under way.

If you assumed that Gov. Roy Cooper's campaign organization would be largely dormant this year, you’d be wrong. In the first half of 2022, the Cooper campaign raised $1.42 million, pulling in a total sum of $2.6 million since he was sworn in for his final term in January 2021.

Another legislative session is over. Sure, the legislature will come back once a month or so to tie up loose ends, but the lion’s share of legislative action is complete. And, any notion of a constitutional amendment on the 2022 ballot is, for all intents and purposes, over.

Legislative leaders are typically some of the biggest campaign fundraisers, using their prominence to raise cash that can be distributed to the most competitive campaigns.

Here’s an odd quirk of North Carolina’s patchwork of municipal election schedules: Two counties administered elections this week in which no one voted.

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The Wake County Democratic Party has picked another replacement candidate for Rep. Grier Martin. On Monday, party leaders selected Tim Longest to appear on November’s ballot to represent the left-leaning Raleigh House district.