North Carolina

Friday

Cockburn

In North Carolina, Chad beats Karen

‘Chad’ and ‘Karen’ did battle on Tuesday in an important North Carolina GOP primary race.Our Chad is Madison Cawthorn, a 24-year-old with a six-pack and diamond-sharp jawline. He clobbered our Karen, Lynda Bennett, a middle-aged white woman with a bob haircut, in the contest for Rep. Mark Meadows’s former seat in the House of Representatives.The race wasn’t even close: Mr Cawthorn emerged with 65.8 percent of the vote, compared to 34.2 percent earned by Mrs Bennett. Cockburn was surprised to learn that Karen did not keel over with a fake injury, call the cops, or provoke an online mob into canceling Cawthorn.Even more impressive is that Bennett, a former businesswoman, lost in spite of endorsements from President Trump and Meadows.

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Tuesday

Matt Mayer

Trump’s 2020 appeal for the black vote

One of the largest obstacles standing in the way of Donald Trump’s re-election is his weakness in every big city in America. Some cities produce such large vote advantages for the Democrats that a Republican simply can’t make up those votes across the rest of the state. That disadvantage is a write off in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago because Trump is guaranteed to lose the deep blue states those cities are in. It will matter, however, in nine battleground states that will decide who wins the 2020 election. Specifically, in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the vote totals in the big cities and counties could make it nearly impossible to win those states in the suburban and rural areas.

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