All posts tagged "North Carolina"

President Donald Trump told North Carolinians that he'll withhold FEMA funding needed for hurricane relief unless the candidate he endorsed wins the midterms.

On Wednesday, Trump showed up in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for GOP Senate nominee Michael Whatley, and he told the voters at the rally that Whatley had to win if the state were to receive any additional FEMA funding as the state continues to recover from Hurricane Helene.

"We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding, and you know you're waiting for some additional money," Trump reminded his rally attendees. "I'm going to get that to you, Michael. Now, if Michael loses, I'm not sending it."...

A protester interrupted President Donald Trump during his campaign speech for GOP candidate Michael Whatley in North Carolina on Wednesday.

Cameras didn't show the protester, but Trump stopped his speech to ask the crowd, "What do you have, a bad guy or a good guy over there? Where is he? Show him to me. Let me see his face."

Trump was stunned when the protester was brought out of the crowd. ...

A Republican campaign has been left "scrambling" by the sudden departure of a scandal-plagued congressman, according to The New York Times.

North Carolina Republicans are stuck looking for a candidate who can replace Congressman Chuck Edwards, who dropped out of the race after a House Ethics Committee probe into allegations of harassing young female staffers, The New York Times reported. Edwards' campaign was already "spiraling" amid the allegations of misconduct, but local GOP chairs from North Carolina told The Times that they're in a tougher position now.

"There was already a lot of work to do," Jim Fulton, the Republican Party chair in Buncombe County, North Carolina, told The Times. "Now, there's a lot more."...

A Confederate flag display at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. was under fire on Friday, according to reports.

The flag was part of an interactive exhibit for North Carolina and shared in a viral video shared on X by Reuben Jones, Spectrum News Washington Correspondent.

"I stopped by the North Carolina booth at the 'Great American State Fair' on the National Mall today. The state decided not to participate because of the high costs so the booth is sponsored by private orgs," Jones wrote. ...

Video footage has resurfaced of a North Carolina Republican caught without his pants inside the local town hall after hours with a female journalist, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The incident involving Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney and has outraged — and also amused — people in the town nicknamed Race City USA after its long history with NASCAR.

"The episode occurred in 2024 but is now bubbling up on multiple fronts," The Journal reported. "Three former town employees are suing Mooresville officials, alleging retaliation for their efforts to preserve the footage or investigate. Town commissioners passed a no-confidence vote this month urging Carney to quit. And a judge last week ordered the town to release video of the incident, a move the town forestalled by appealing Wednesday."...

The young man who drove from North Carolina to south Florida and breached the perimeter of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort while armed with a shotgun and gas can, and was killed by law enforcement, was a quiet and sensitive community college student from a conservative background, those who knew him said.

“I never got weird energy from him,” one former classmate told Raw Story. “I never sensed any danger.”

But as the FBI attempts to establish what led Austin Tucker Martin to his death in the early hours of last Sunday, reports and social media posts by acquaintances reviewed by Raw Story suggest the 21-year-old was concerned about the ongoing publication of files related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his links to powerful people — including President Trump....