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CHARLOTTE, NC — Presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton moved even closer to securing their party’s nominations after yesterday’s Super Tuesday, but what else will it take?
WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis talks more about the Super Tuesday results, and what’s next for Campaign 2016.
CHARLOTTE, NC — GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s lead got even bigger last night over his fellow Republican hopefuls, but will that momentum hold as Campaign 2016 comes to North Carolina.
WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis talks with us from Washington, DC about what’s next in the race for the White House.
CHARLOTTE, NC — Going into Super Tuesday the stakes were high for GOP candidates hoping to stop Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders was looking for a few more wins to remain a contender against Hillary.
WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis joins us from Washington, DC with a look at the results from Super Tuesday and what’s next for Campaign 2016.
Here’s an easy prediction to make: The historic election and two-term presidency of Barack Obama will provide endless material to future academics, journalists and commentators. Many books will be written examining every aspect of the first African-American president’s campaigns and years in the White House, with few agreeing on anything except the fact that President Obama did, indeed, make history. He and his policies will be loved, loathed and everything in between.
But you get the feeling that the information flood will somehow miss certain Americans, including those leaders who shared those Washington years with Obama, and spent many of them in denial. In the American history books Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, chooses for his library shelves, will the Obama years be mysteriously missing?
Whether the presidential race just got a lot more entertaining or frightening is the question.
In true “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” fashion, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorsed New York billionaire Donald Trump in the race to be the Republican nominee, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio must be sweating more than is his wont.
CHARLOTTE, NC — The Charlotte City Council is considering adding LGBT protections to the existing non-discrimination ordinance, but the debate has been heated.
WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis weighs in on the debate and gives insight into what the council’s decision could mean for Charlotte.
Who’s to blame for the water that poisoned the residents of Flint? Was it Environmental Protection Agency officials whose political squabbling with state and local leaders delayed getting word to residents? Was it the governor and his appointed emergency manager who, with eyes on the bottom line, made critical life decisions for a worried city?
CHARLOTTE, NC — The results from the Iowa causes are in, and Ted Cruz has claimed victory on the Republican side while Hillary Clinton narrowly beat out rival Bernie Sanders on the Democrat side.
WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis is LIVE from Washington with us to discuss the results and look ahead to what’s next.
After finishing first in the Iowa Republican caucuses in 2008 and 2012, respectively, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum were relegated to the undercard and mostly ignored pre-debate debate. Then the duo rushed (or perhaps hastily sauntered) to Donald Trump’s veterans’ event, one timed to clash with the main stage debate from which the front-runner was conspicuously absent because of his high-profile feud with Fox News.
So the leaders of yesteryear spent Thursday night at a Donald Trump veterans’ rally at Drake University — the Pips to Donald Trump’s Gladys Knight, background voices catching a bit of the spotlight but decidedly not the person the crowd and cameras had come to see. (Yes, in reality there were more than two Pips, but the fact that you had to think about it only proves the point.)
When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. admonished the Southern white religious leaders who called his civil rights actions “unwise and untimely,” he did it with empathy and understanding. In his 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King prefaced his own strong, morally held belief in equality by calling his critics “men of genuine good will” whose words were “sincerely set forth.” Think of it: A minister in jail, rejected by fellow men of faith, was nonetheless respectful of those who failed to come to his aid, who failed to see his fight — rooted in the words of the founders and the principles of faith — as their own.
On this day to honor him, politicians will utter and issue statements of praise for this man the nation honors, while ignoring every one of the lessons he taught. Respect those who disagree? Give them credit for being good people and patriotic Americans? Not this season.
