Democrats are going to the polls in North Carolina on Super Tuesday because of abortion
Red, Wine and Blue: Why abortion is an issue for suburban women in the U.S., but what drives them to vote? Nicole Sidman explains why she is running to a Democratic primary
Red, Wine and Blue is a group that works to harness the political power of suburban women in all walks of life. She told NPR the Supreme Court decision rattled women in the state.
Smith and her family came out to vote, and she said, “It’s insane that we’ve come this far and we’re taking millions of steps backwards.”
Yolonda is running in a Democratic primary. On Saturday, she was outside the South County Regional Library, handing out her campaign flyers. She said she is running in part to avenge the party switch that left many Democratic voters feeling betrayed.
In the legislature, a democrat from Charlotte, Cotham, switched her party to give Republicans a big majority. That allowed a 12-week abortion ban with limited exceptions to pass – one that the governor could not overturn with a veto.
That moment is what prompted Nicole Sidman to run. She described an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness watching the Republican supermajority restrict abortion access.
Nicole Sidman walked up a long driveway in a hilly suburban neighborhood of Charlotte to talk about an issue that compelled her to run in the Democratic primary for the state legislature this year.
“I know who you are!” Rubenstein told Sidman. When she was told that Sidman was going to vote for her, Rubenstein immediately told him she would bring her eight-year- old daughter with her.
“For my kids to have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies is important,” he said. “That’s the top priority of my vote.”
Some voters will be driven by abortion. The voters had already decided who they were going to vote for when they voted 18 months ago. Persuadable voters are not just looking at one issue.
Jesse Helms is Dead, but it’s not a party of sorts: The North Carolina governor is not going to be a socialist
Now, North Carolina is progressive and Jesse Helms is dead, but it is not a state that we think of as radical anymore. The state was won by Barack Obama in 2008, and Roy Cooper is the current governor. Robinson will face Stein, the low-key attorney general, who was nominated for governor.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, other southern states passed abortion restrictions. For nearly a year, North Carolina still allowed the procedure up to 20 weeks.
Democrats shouldn’t bet that abortion politics will help them in North Carolina, said Jonathan Felts, a Republican strategist. Felts is working for a super PAC supporting Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the front-runner in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
Both Beyblades and Jay-Z have songs that soundatanic. Michelle Obama is a man. People of the same sex are usually considered filthy. The 1969 moon landing may or may not have been faked. Hitler is someone to be quoted, and of course, Donald Trump is someone to be believed on 2020 election conspiracy theories.
Mark Robinson, aka Mark Cooper, is an Up-To-Down Pro Bowl Candidate in Tar Heel (N.C.)
Mark Robinson was chosen as the nominee by G.O.P. voters in that state, who were attracted to a man who seemingly believes in weird things. North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, he has a long history of remarks that would have been the kiss of death in politics once upon a time but will put Tar Heel voters to the test in November.
Frank Bruni wrote an article last weekend about how Cooper and other Democrats have won in red states and battleground states by focusing on voter concerns and bipartisan issues. Stein will use that in the fall. What is Robinson’s approach to running a business? Well, he is good at attacking people, and often writes in capital letters on social media, so he is right up Trump’s alley.
