Carolina Journal

Early voting started today, and here is what's driving voters.

So according to a Harper Poll and Carolina Journal poll, inflation and cost of living, 46.1%.

Economy and jobs, 18.1%.

Social Security, Medicare, 17.1%.

Welcome to the show, Don Carrington.

He's a former investigative journalist with Carolina Journal.

I, I-

Good morning, Lisa

Well, Alex, we, we do appreciate you coming on the podcast.

You know, you have been a source for us going back to your Carolina Journal days.

We loved your reporting for CJ.

Uh, Alex covered the general assembly, and then he moved on to other great gigs, including this one as the executive director of NC Free.

What is of value... is where the candidates stand on the issues they are most likely going to be called upon to vote on.

So here's a more relevant poll from the Carolina Journal.

They asked voters, likely general election voters, 608 likely general election voters, were asked to assess whether Roy Cooper would support the Democratic Socialists of America's policy priorities.

That's a fair question because we don't know.

And then the question we've been covering, it feels like week after week in every poll, is in that U.S. Senate race, who do you plan to support? Former Governor Roy Cooper or Michael Watley? And again, this poll found a double-digit lead for Roy Cooper, with him at 48%, Watley at 37%.

So a little better than that Carolina Journal poll we talked about last week.

And by the way, did you see that Michael Watley went off on the Carolina Journal reporter? That was unfortunate.

Something that's interesting here within those survey demographics, Watley leads Cooper by five points among white non-Hispanic likely voters.

Cooper leads by 60 points among black likely voters.

You know, at roughly $150 a year, that's real money.

His getting involved the way that he did really hurt the players both journalistically and financially.

Circling back to the NNO, was the NNO in its heyday when the Daniels family owned the NNO? As problematic as the Daniels were historically going back to the late 1800s, but certainly a fixture in North Carolina journalism.

Republican candidate Michael Watley facing the Democratic nominee Roy Cooper.

Today, Watley called a Carolina Journal poll showing him behind by double digits a trash poll coming from the worst pollster in the history of North Carolina.

Michael Watley campaigned today in Pittsburgh and spoke about what he said was Roy Cooper's positions on transgender issues.

and Roy Cooper, who also has championed a very destructive transgender ideology throughout the course of his tenure.

In Michigan, El Sayed by 2.6.

In North Carolina, according to Carolina Journal poll, Cooper 49, Whatley just watching.

Cooper 49, Whatley 34.

It's a 15 point margin for the Democrat.