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2 days ago · The dispute started with North Carolina’s 2016 race for governor. Democratic challenger Roy Cooper unseated Republican incumbent Pat McCrory by 10,277 votes, or just 0.2% of 4.7 million votes cast. Given the tight margin, McCrory’s campaign committee established a legal defense fund.
May 23, 2024 · The North Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a defamation case filed against out-of-state lawyers supporting Gov. Pat McCrory after the 2016 election. The court ruled that the lawyers enjoyed legal protection connected to official election protests.
May 23, 2024 · The case stems from false claims of double voting in 2016 after Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in a close election. Brunswick and Guilford County residents filed election protests after talking with attorneys with the law firm the Pat McCrory Legal Defense Fund hired.
2 days ago · Incumbent Roy Cooper was first elected in 2016, defeating then-incumbent governor Pat McCrory by about 0.2 points. Cooper was re-elected in 2020 by 4.5 percentage points.
2 days ago · There have been 69 governors of North Carolina, with six serving non-consecutive terms, totaling 75 terms. The current governor is Democrat Roy Cooper, who took office on January 1, 2017.
May 22, 2024 · The lone Republican governor in that span was Pat McCrory, the former Charlotte mayor who pitched himself to voters as a business-friendly conservative rooted in the pragmatic, problem-solving...
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May 23, 2024 · Four registered voters had sued in 2017 for libel and for damages, saying they were wrongly accused of voter fraud by pro-McCrory forces just after the close election that was ultimately won by...
