NEW — A filing cited by Politico shows Elon Musk put another $76 million into efforts to boost Republicans, bringing his total spending this cycle to $442 million.
North Carolina Early Vote Tracking 🌲
As of Oct. 22, 2026
Total early votes: 1,077,318 (+173,047)
27.3% of projected final turnout.
Modeled 2026 Vote:
🔵 Roy Cooper: 57.0% - 66.7%
🔴 Michael Whatley : 31.3% - 41.0%
Remaining votes in NC will be much more Republican. We rate this race as Likely D.
Justice @Anita_Earls has spent her career fighting for civil rights and protecting voting rights. She’s the only candidate running for North Carolina’s Supreme Court with a proven record of standing up for all North Carolinians.
Make a plan to vote at https://t.co/A470oY2RAu.
We continue to see some remarkable early voting data out of North Carolina. Voters who sat out 2024 are still D+46 (!!) in cumulative two-party registration and it's barely moving to the right. Republicans are disproportionately drawing their votes from high-propensity voters, but are still lagging badly in turning out those voters overall.
Things can certainly change, and some reversion toward historical patterns is often what we see when the initial data are this extreme. But this is starting to resemble what we saw in Florida in 2022, only with the parties reversed.
I'm not surprised that NRCC Chair Richard Hudson has directed funding toward his own Trump+16 district. Cooper carrying the seat certainly not out of the question at this point.
🗳️ NC EARLY VOTING — DAY 6
Today by lunchtime, NC will cross 1 Million Votes. That's 2 days faster than '22, 3 ahead of '18
Rs gaining ground in % share, not yet on raw vote share
+ 924k votes so far. Here's what the numbers tell us, compared with '22 and '18🧵👇 #ncpol
@nc_tea2024 That’s because you cut gas taxes until after the election. Punching a hole in the budget in the hopes of short term political gain. It won’t work.
A reminder that the NC GOP changed how the state board of elections functions after Josh Stein won the 2024 election for governor, transferring the power to decide the majority on the board from the governor's office... to the office of the auditor, which the GOP happened to win.
@APDillon_@BryanRAnderson Have you ever spoken in front of liberal groups, or just conservative groups? If it’s just conservatives then there would be at least the appearance of you being an activist.
North Carolina!! If you voted by mail, go to https://t.co/MsAYxX8dE5 to track whether your ballot was rejected over minor technical issues. If it was, you can still vote in person!
The State Board of Elections’ last-minute changes to voting by mail are leading to thousands more absentee ballots being rejected this election - at a rejection rate twice as high as in 2022. It’s infuriating. North Carolinians, please make a plan to vote this year, in person if possible. And if you’re voting by mail, make sure you seal both envelopes on your ballot. Don’t let them take away your vote.
Through five days of early voting, NC has seen a 38% increase in turnout compared to 2022. But it's not even across all political parties or by race. #ncpol
By Party:
UNA: +62.1%
DEM: +53.2%
GOP: -4.9%
By Race:
Black: +70.1%
White: +24.2%
these brochures, which build on the text campaign last week, are clearly part of a GOP GOTV operation. the folks who did this are smart. less smart are the angry Rs on here who are not asking how the "transgender student union" got the addresses of them and all their friends
North Carolina deserves justices who are dedicated to upholding the law. That's why I'm proud to support Justice Anita Earls in her campaign for reelection. Thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to knock on doors in support of Anita and Democrats up and down the ballot.
@RepMarkHarrisNC You have a lot of chutzpah talking about other people committing voter fraud. Your election got thrown out in 2018 because your campaign was caught red-handed committing voter fraud. You should be in jail! Vote for Colby Watson for NC-08.