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Covers North Carolina politics for @WRAL and @PolitiFactNC. Formerly at the @newsobserver. Raleigh native. @Campbelledu alum.
Raleigh, NC
Joined December 2011
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Andy Specht retweeted
NC is one state with clean comparison to 2022. Mail requests through the same week: Ds 54,401 then, 37,762 now. Rs 14,440 then, 15,473 now. Republican share of the two-party request pool went from 21% to 29%. Does seem like GOP message on mail voting breaking through.
Andy Specht retweeted
If the Irkutsk researcher died of plague, she was presumably unvaccinated and did not receive antibiotics per protocol. Alternatively, the strain was vaccine-evading and antibiotic-resistant. That seldom occurs naturally. Pneumonic plague is only moderately transmissible.
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Andy Specht retweeted
GOP is at risk of significant state legislative losses, @washingtonpost analysis finds
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Andy Specht retweeted
👀 via @PunchbowlNews, In #NC01, where Rep. Don Davis (D-NC) faces Republican Laurie Buckhout, the price tag is now $38.8 million #NCPOL punchbowl.news/article/campa…
Andy Specht retweeted
Everything I’m hearing about NC is the numbers are bad and getting worse.
Democrats pull back some North Carolina Senate spending after GOP’s retreat politi.co/3W9ySUQ
Andy Specht retweeted
It’s true, we have been here before! But I think what it reveals is even more interesting. In Sverdlovsk, declassified docs demonstrate the US knew pretty much what happened immediately when USSR had a huge accident in an illegal anthrax production facility. US diplomats happily
Andy Specht retweeted
Highly recommend this entire thread for anyone interested in a serious discussion about whether or not the Irkutsk plague situation indicates a bioweapon is involved by @ggronvall—a renowned expert on biosecurity at Johns Hopkins who knows a lot about this.
Andy Specht retweeted
Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Andy Specht retweeted
Plague is treatable with antibiotics, so why are they responding with lockdowns instead of giving people antibiotics?
A couple of disturbing possibilities.
Andy Specht retweeted
ABC News obtained a recording of a phone call between Jane Doe and the fraternity brother she went to see the night she was allegedly attacked in 2024. Aaron Katersky reports.
Andy Specht retweeted
Pay attention to this one. +11 D for party I.D.—largest Dem lead since early 2009 (Obama inauguration). Gallup is not just another poll; it’s the gold standard.
GALLUP Q3 PARTY ID (with leaners)
🟦 Democrat 50%
🟥 Republican 39%
D+11 is the largest quarterly margin recorded for Democrats since the first quarter of 2009 (was R+4 in Q4, 2024)
news.gallup.com/poll/654560/…
Andy Specht retweeted
BREAKING
Former Republican House Speaker and serial child molester Dennis Hastert has died.
Hastert admitted in federal court that he sexually abused teenage boys while he was a high school wrestling coach.
He never served prison time for that sexual abuse because the statutes of limitations had expired.
He did, however, serve 13 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally structuring cash withdrawals to evade federal reporting requirements, conduct tied to hush money payments to one of the survivors of his predation.
Hastert was 84.
Andy Specht retweeted
From the start of October through Election Day, Republicans are poised to outspend Democrats on advertising in eight of the ten most competitive Senate races, according to future reservations. In Texas, the GOP have a nearly 8-to-1 advantage in remaining bookings, while Georgia and North Carolina are the only contests with clear Democratic spending advantages:
cnn.com/2026/10/05/politics/…
New: The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2026
1. North Carolina
2. Ohio
3. Alaska
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W/ @ArletteSaenz
cnn.com/2026/10/05/politics/…
