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@NCDemParty
!
#RuralMatters
The
@NCDemParty
Rural Tour is back for ✨round 2(!)✨ where we’ll be in📍Halifax,📍Northampton, &📍Vance counties! Sign up for our next stop with
@mondalerobinson
in Enfield on May 16th! 🤠
#ncpol
🚨 we got a report this morning of a voter who was turned away from a polling site trying to use their *VALID* student ID to vote. Their student ID is on the approved list from the state board of elections. This is why voter ID disenfranchises voters — especially young voters. 🧵
I’m just here to apologize to the American people on behalf of my state for the absolutely asinine and complete and utter disaster we’re all about to witness with good ‘ole Pat.
NEWS - As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed"
w/
@DaniellaMicaela
I’ll be honest with y’all, this man ran unopposed last cycle. We’re not letting that happen again. Racism has no place in our governing body.
Sign up to run for office with us, especially if you’re in Iredell County! ➡️
to the news that most surprised me today, my dad filed to run for Person County Commissioner as a DEMOCRAT!
This is the same man who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. And in 2020, turned around to vote for Joe Biden. We’ve come such a long way politically, and I’m so proud of him.
📍Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky
Ron worked in the mines for 25 years and already cast his vote for
@AmyMcGrathKY
! He said it best, “Anybody that votes for Mitch McConnell is killing Eastern Kentucky.”
#DitchMitch
WATCH- In his concession speech to Colin Allred for the Democratic Senate nomination, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez attacked Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
**Language Warning
More election results here-
I was in a bar tonight in my rural hometown talking to some young folks and one of them looked at me and goes, “yo, I didn’t know
@JoeBiden
was the first president to walk a picket line. that’s pretty cool.”
Chair
@abreezeclayton
: Joe Biden is the first president in the nation's history to walk on a picket line. He knows that people’s pocketbooks are hurting because of corporate greed
Tricia Cotham’s decision to switch parties is a betrayal to the people in HD-112 with repercussions not only for her district, but the entire state of North Carolina. She no longer represents the values constituents trusted her to champion, and should resign immediately.
#ncpol
📍Wilkes County tonight y’all!
@Staley4NCSenate
had me so excited to see him represent Senate District 36. Darren’s someone who’s benefited his entire life from the work of Democrats. We’re going to remind folks next year which party really fights FOR the people. ✊
#ncpol
I’ve been told it’s a rare occurrence to have both the
@VP
&
@POTUS
in state for one visit, but we know North Carolina MATTERS this year. The South matters this year. And we plan to make sure North Carolina is the reason we keep the White House. 🫡😤🗳️✨
#ncpol
📸:
@meganlydiaw
There’s never been a single-day rollback of racial progress as there was today in North Carolina.
The NCGOP and our Republican Supreme Court delivered on disenfranchisement of Black communities at the ballot box with 3 tragic rulings that make it harder to vote in our state. 🧵
Minneapolis’s mayor on the supposedly dangerous precedent set by the ride share ordinance: “Are we now planning to set a minimum wage for every industry?”
went to vote this morning in person county and someone goes, “am I mistaken, or are you the Democratic Party chair for the state?” and when I told him I was, he said, “I knew you were local, but I didn’t know you were local-local!” LOL
get out & vote North Carolina!!! 🗳️🥹🫶
y’all, North Carolina democrats have the ability to take back BOTH our court of appeals and Supreme Court by 2028 if we do our jobs in 2024 & 2026!!! 😤✊🧵
7️⃣5️⃣ students in📍North Carolina with our phenomenal
@VP
for an organizer training! ✊ Young voters *will* be the reason why North Carolina flips blue and we keep the White House this year! Thanks to
@ydnc
,
@CollegeDemsNC
, &
@NCTeenDems
for all the organizing work!!!
#ncpol
We brought the power of the people with us today to demand Rep. Cotham resign. The voters of HD-112 elected a Democrat to serve, not to give Republicans a supermajority. Cotham chose that future for us. So we fight on. We continue organizing for 2023 and beyond.
#ForThePeople
✊
Thank you, Governor Cooper! I’m honored to lead this party with you into the future and build a better North Carolina for everyone. Let’s get to work for Democrats y’all! 🤠
Congratulations to Anderson Clayton and the other officers elected today. All the elected Democratic officials look forward to working together to make NC Blue in 2024.
there are too many highs & lows to count that have come from being young and in this role over the past year. but meeting
@AOC
was the highest moment. thank you for inspiring so many young people in politics & giving me hope about the type of people we can be in this work. ✨🫶🥹
Any ground we’re ceding to a party that believes this and speaks this — about our poor communities, our Black communities, our faith communities — means we’re not fighting racism and oppression hard enough in NC. ➡️
Let’s get these folks out of power. ✊
🚨 “In addition to its headquarters in Raleigh, the Biden campaign is opening field offices in Forsyth, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Cumberland, Johnston, Orange, New Hanover, Buncombe, Cabarrus and Alamance counties.”
Idk about y’all, but NC is fired up. ✊
"
@POTUS
is the first president in 50 frickin' years to say, if you live in a
#rural
area, you deserve a future. It's a mindset shift of, no matter where you live, you deserve to have the best of everything because that is what humanity calls for."
This breaks my heart today. 😔 I’m grieving for folks across the South who have lost access to their fundamental freedoms. The fight in this election is bigger than a match up between old v. evil.
It’s about protecting women’s future to live the life THEY choose. ✊
"Even if you're in the reddest of rural—to me, you are still worth fighting for, your vote is still worth fighting for, people are still worth talking to, because I came from a place like that.”
#ncpol
#RuralMatters
Today,
@POTUS
said we’re not leaving ANYWHERE behind. He spoke of the rural electrification act and the debt we owe to rural America. He spoke to the places that produce our food and protect our land. that’s what this election cycle is about. rural North Carolina deserves it. ✊
I opened my mailbox to the best surprise today! 🥹 I’m honored to be in the fight for the soul of our Nation with
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
. We’re getting organized and active here in North Carolina! Let’s continue to
#BuildBackBetter
y’all! 🤠
@CollegeDemsNC
And just to say — we were able to make sure this student voted! But voting should never be so hard or a process that turns folks away. Voting is our constitutional right in this democracy, and we have to work to protect it.
This was absolutely unreal. Thank you
@jrpsaki
for having us on! Here’s to winning North Carolina in 2024 and giving folks across our state something to believe in. We’ve gotta have the best candidates in the fight with us to make that happen. Run! ➡️ 🤠
"I don’t want to just give people something to vote against this year. I want to give them something to believe in."
North Carolina's new Democratic leader
@abreezeclayton
joins
@jrpsaki
to discuss the way forward for Democrats in her state.
Watch here➡️
folks in the South ARE worth fighting for.
folks in…
Tennessee are worth fighting for.
Florida are worth fighting for.
Texas are worth fighting for.
Georgia are worth fighting for.
Mississippi are worth fighting for.
North Carolina are worth fighting for. ✊
y’all telling me a rural gal from roxboro, north carolina can just ride in the motorcade with the vice president of the United States?!?! mama we made it!!!
and I got to tell her how important rural north carolina seeing her will be this year for 2024. an unbelievable day. 🫶
My dad, the former trump supporter, looking at me just now and saying he was going to vote for
@KamalaHarris
in the primary and the general election, is the energy I need always.
Students! Make sure you know your rights going into polling locations this year in North Carolina. Attached below is the approved list of all school and university IDs that were approved through the hard work of
@CollegeDemsNC
this last year.
#ncpol
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Today, I’m beyond proud to announce my candidacy for Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party.
I believe in a party that values and respects the voices of those on the ground, and together, I know we can build a better NCDP.
#ClaytonForCarolina
“A senior Biden campaign official, who was granted anonymity to speak frankly, said it would be “crazy” to not put North Carolina on the map since the president only lost it by 1 percentage point in 2020.”
I have to agree! 😉
#ncpol
It’s time for a reckoning in our state capitol. ✊
Thank you to the hundreds of students who showed up on Wednesday in solidarity with each other.
Gun violence isn’t a partisan issue. North Carolinians believe in universal background checks and red flag laws. Republicans don’t.
It’s sad - I used to wonder how folks ever left politics / this work. And then I realized they do it because they determined their personal quality of life is better when they’re not constantly berated and abused by other people not doing the work but speaking as though they are.
We're calling it:
@PatCothamMeck
has been defeated for the at-large county commission seat in Mecklenburg she's held for a decade. And it wasn't particularly close - she was short over 13,000 votes.
#cltpol
Biden looks to put North Carolina on ‘24 map —
“…and it’s no surprise that
@POTUS
team is looking to North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have long set their sights on.”
Let’s flip NC blue y’all
#ncpol
🤠✨
yesterday, the NCDP State Executive Committee voted to make a state chair a full-time, paid position. I’m beyond proud and grateful to my party. This is a step to ensuring ANYONE — working folks, young folks, poor folks — can be a leader in our party. We should be damn proud. ✊
BREAKING: Introducing our 14 North Carolina Spotlight candidates – Democrats running in the most competitive races for the state legislature. Breaking the GOP’s supermajority in North Carolina is one of our top priorities this year.
Meet our champions: 🧵
Respectfully, he didn’t *accuse* her of violent rhetoric. Those are *REAL* statements Michele Morrow made about executing public officials, and it IS violent.
She shouldn’t be normalized, nor should this be treated as politics as usual. The receipts are there y’all!
NC Dem candidate Mo Green accuses GOP opponent Michele Morrow of ‘violent rhetoric.’ She calls him ‘extremist' in supt. race. Green questions Morrow's posts about killing people. Morrow questions grants from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
#nced
#ncpol
Here’s to fighting for the soul of our Nation together, the organizing fire of the grassroots, and North Carolina going BLUE in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣!
#BuildBackBetter
Just to make it clear: The North Carolina Democratic Party unequivocally supports the rights and humanity of our trans, gender non-conforming, gender-fluid, or any other member of our LGBTQ+ community. That’s the end of the sentence.
I have no words. This is the second text thread I’ve sent like this in two weeks, because students on campus have been sent a shelter in place alert. My heart is broken for the UNC community.
We only need one Republican in either the House or Senate to help sustain the veto of this dangerous abortion ban. Ted Davis, Michael Lee, John Bradford and Tricia Cotham promised to protect women’s reproductive freedom. There’s still time for them to keep their promises. - RC
Elizabeth Warren just called her staff and let me tell y’all something. I am ready to give this election everything I’ve got and more. Little girls across this country deserve it. LFG.
I’m unbelievably proud of young folks today in North Carolina for standing up for their values, beliefs, and fellow students.
I’m also deeply disturbed by the audacity of Republican leadership to make light of an issue that exists in every community across our state.
#ncpol
UNC students, protesting NC gun laws following on-campus shooting, chanted “Vote Them Out” in the state House just now.
House Speaker Tim Moore (a UNC grad, in a Tar Heels tie today) joked as police escorted the students out that they must have secretly been Duke students
#ncpol
Spent the last hour checking in with our UNC young dems — thankfully everyone is okay, safe, and still sheltering in place.
Students don’t deserve to live in this type of fear.
We need policy change, rather than a legislature that refuses to recognize gun violence as a problem.
Are you fucking serious? The NCGOP, Phil Berger (his boss), and mark robinson are ALL on record too much stating a 12-week abortion ban isn’t far enough. they want to make sure we do have stories like Amanda’s that hit NC next. Don’t act like you care about women or our rights.
This story never has and still won’t apply to North Carolina. SB20 accounts for miscarriages (not defined as abortions) and there is a clear exception anyway for the health of the mother. This is fear-mongering.
NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS HAVE TO KEEP A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR IN THE SOUTH, SAVE A N.C. STATE SUPREME COURT SEAT, BREAK THE REPUBLICAN SUPERMAJORITY IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AND TAKE THE COUNCIL OF STATE! 😤😤😤
#NCPOL
2008 was the last Presidential Election where a Democrat won North Carolina, and young voters were *the* voting demographic that made the difference.
We’re proud for North Carolina to be the battleground state where
@KamalaHarris
launches Students for Biden-Harris! ✊🗳️✨
#ncpol
I am proud to launch Students for Biden-Harris.
We’re ready to mobilize young voters across the country in the fight for our fundamental rights and freedoms.
Join us:
WE HAVE A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY ON THE ROXBORO CITY COUNCIL!!!
When a county party gets involved in local elections, we CAN make the difference.
This is the first time:
- a Black woman was elected to city council & we elected TWO
- we elected a minority-majority council
🗳🗳🗳
Folks, the
@NCDemParty
can proudly say 7️⃣0️⃣ out of 1️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ universities and community colleges will have their students IDs count as *valid voter IDs* for the 2024 election cycle. This would NOT have been possible without the hard work of
@linville_nathan
&
@CollegeDemsNC
.
#ncpol
The
#ncpol
NC State Board of Elections today approved 21 more student and employer IDs as acceptable voter photo ID for 2024. Images have the 21, link has the entire list of 100+ institutions: Very pleased that Wake Tech student ID was approved today.
what do we do when we get shitty ass maps??? we organize young people. thanks to all the Forsyth Young Dems who came out tonight to fight back against republican extremism taking over our state!!! ✊💪😤
so you were found guilty by a jury of your peers in the *area* you were in because YOU chose to leave the state and go storm the Capitol??? I do believe that’s how the law works!!! 🤠
The jury I was found guilty by was roughly representative of the DC populace
I would be hesitant to regard myself a "peer" of these august swamp-dwellers
Mitch sure likes to TALK about Eastern Kentucky, but all I SEE out here are kind folks who support
@AmyMcGrathKY
!!!!!! Pulaski County today is painted blue, and we’re just getting started!!!!! 2️⃣2️⃣ DAYS 🤠
#DitchMitch
It’s ironic that the NCGOP can get away with criticizing my party on bullying, meanwhile, they just silenced their *senior* United States Senator over his support of a person’s freedom to love who they love. Which party is the party of freedom again? Not the NCGOP —
In 2024, North Carolina Democrats will ensure every voter knows where their leaders stand on the issue of choice, bodily autonomy, and health care. We will continue to fight to elect candidates that stand up for reproductive freedom in North Carolina.
#ncpol
✊
idk about y’all, but I wish everyone on this bird app could have just seen my reaction to North Carolina as a “swing democrat” state in Moody’s lol 🥹😤🥲
Thank you
@POTUS
for joining us back in North Carolina today to talk about one of my favorite topics —BROADBAND! Shoutout to our Governor,
@RoyCooperNC
, for being one of the first in the nation to call for Congress to pass the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act! 🧵
tbh - I don’t ride the pollercoaster! North Carolina Democrats are going to run this race like we’re 7 points down. we’re hungry for change and know that we can’t let our foot off the gas from now until 2030 and beyond. LFG.
HELP US KNOCK DOORS! ⬇️
#ncpol
everyone needs to walk through life with a bit of ✨color✨
(so that when it’s raining, dull, bleak and dreary in DC - you stand out more to everyone lol) 🫶🥹
It was an absolute honor to be part of
@maddow
’s Super Tuesday coverage last night to lay out what’s at stake for North Carolina voters in 2024!
@NCDemParty
is fighting for every vote, so make sure you get involved at !
#ncpol
🤠🫶
after the vote was taken tonight, folks in the gallery were loud. our right to our own bodies was just voted on. and tonight, the people just yelled. we’re tired, that’s for sure, but more than that, we’re angry. we’re motivated. and there’s a movement behind us. ✊
Tonight, Mark Robinson won the GOP nomination for Governor of North Carolina. We know we can’t let someone who believes in stripping rights away from folks in this state within an arm’s reach of our Governor’s Office.
Let’s get to work, North Carolina! ✊
It was an honor to be with
@POTUS
,
@FLOTUS
, &
@VP
as this Administration launched the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, which aims to fundamentally change how we approach and fund women’s health research in the United States.
#womenshistorymonth
I mean it — why not North Carolina? Why not the South? We deserve every bit of investment. It’s a region that’s been politically ignored, ravaged by regressive laws, and racially gerrymandered. To us, we know North Carolina is where the fight for our democracy takes place.
#ncpol
NC’s election filing period ended last Friday. You won’t be surprised to learn that a big-government leftist filed to try and flip North Carolina’s Fifth District blue.
In other words, business as usual for the far-left.
#ncpol
I hear so many people say they want nothing to do with politics. But y’all, politics doesn’t get better until better people get involved with politics.
It’s why we must recruit new candidates and folks who could never see themselves in public office to run for it.
“That’s why I’m in this job. Because I believe that the Democratic Party right now is fundamentally the party that is speaking for the majority of Americans and the majority of North Carolinians at this moment in time.”
#ncpol
Exactly — it doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican, Democrat, or independent voter in North Carolina this year. The choice is CLEAR for our public schools, and our children deserve an educator, not an extremist, leading them.
#ncpol