Are Republicans Losing Their Grip In North Carolina?

北卡罗来纳州的共和党人是否正在失去控制?

What A Day

2026-10-08

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The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with a top Senate Republican, began dialing back its funding for the North Carolina Senate race last week and shifted it elsewhere. Now a group affiliated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, WinSenate, is doing the same. Jane talks with Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, about what's happening in the race to replace retiring Republican Senator Tom Tillis and other races across the state. Show Notes: Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com
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  • I think 2024 was an election that we didn't just lose to Donald Trump.

  • We lost to the couch in a lot of ways, especially for our own party.

  • And so making sure that we're talking to rural Democrats again about how they've got candidates

  • that are running again for those state legislative races,

  • because for so long, Raleigh has been doing a disservice to people across rural North Carolina.

  • It's Wednesday, October 7th.

  • I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waterday.

  • Secretary of State and Jack of all trades Marco Rubio is in Greece

  • today speaking alongside the Greek foreign minister about the importance of America's European allies.

  • And of course, how well America is doing in the war in Iran.

  • The Straits of Hormuz are open.

  • There's almost as much oil flowing out now as there was before this conflict began.

  • So they've lost complete control of the Straits and their economy.

  • And it's not only in free fall now, the Iranian economy is about to.

  • Reach a place that few countries in the world have been in terms of how bad it's going to get.

  • And it's all the fault, all the fault of the radical Shia clerics that make the decisions in that country.

  • As little Marco just said that the strait is open,

  • an Iranian official told Farr's news agency that the strait is closed and the illegal routes along the waterway where,

  • quote, small boat smuggling oil and transferring it to tankers will also be closed soon, according to Reuters.

  • He said that the strait will remain closed and under full control of the armed forces