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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – This week, Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden could announce his running mate.
So who are the final contenders?
And what factors will go into the former Vice President’s decision?
And the U.S. intelligence community’s top election security official is raising concerns about election interference.
Our political contributor Mary C. Curtis has more in the video above.
CHARLOTTE, NC — Robert Pittenger will not run again in North Carolina’s 8th District U.S. House race. At least that’s what he says. And right now, that might be the only thing people know for sure about the contested contest roiled by accusations of election fraud and more plot twists than any movie.
WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis weighs in.
OPINION — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Perhaps North Carolina’s 9th District will have a congressman by January; but maybe not.
You see, there seems to have been a mix-up in the count, distribution and collection of absentee ballots in Bladen and Robeson counties, which make up part of the district — what the state elections board (made up of four Democrats, four Republicans and one independent) called “unfortunate activities” when it first refused to certify the results.
For a while, it looked as though the Republican, former Baptist pastor Mark Harris, had beaten the Democrat, Marine veteran and businessman Dan McCready, by a mere 905 votes of about 280,000 cast in the gerrymandered district that may not exist after a court-ordered redraw. But now investigations, possible lawsuits and an absence of official results mean this particular 2018 race may not be decided until 2019.
CHARLOTTE, NC — Facebook said this week that it has detected and removed 32 pages and fake accounts that it identified – built to sow divisions in the U.S. and potentially disrupt the midterm elections. Earlier, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri announced thwarted attempts to break into her office’s accounts.
The tactics are similar to those our intelligence agencies say have been used by Russia to influence elections in the U.S. and other countries.
Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee has scheduled an open meeting to examine how foreign intelligence agencies conduct influence campaigns in the U.S. through various social media platforms.
