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Ray Gronberg with the NC Tribune has a great update this morning on the Berger-Page race.
“By the close of business today, we’ll have a lot better idea of how the Phil Berger-Sam Page primary in Senate District 26 will ultimately turn out.
Friday is the day for county elections boards across North Carolina to canvass and certify the results of last week’s balloting. The boards in Rockingham and Guilford counties are convening (separately) at 11 a.m. Those interested can watch on Zoom.
Last week’s unofficial returns had Page up two votes on Berger, who’s led the state Senate’s Republican caucus since 2005 and been the chamber’s president pro tem since the GOP took control in 2011.
That has since widened to a 23-vote lead for Page with the counting of mail-in and provisional ballots. But there’s still work to do, including counting any late-arriving military ballots from overseas.
The margin is likely to remain narrow enough to justify a recount, should a candidate ask for one. The deadline for filing a request is noon next Tuesday.
Should Page’s lead hold up, the result would represent an earthquake in North Carolina politics. Berger’s been the state’s most powerful politician, more or less, since the GOP takeover and his departure would leave his caucus with a lot of what-now questions to answer.
But there’s a paradox here, Western Carolina University political science professor Chris Cooper says.
This ‘was, and is, a local race that hinged on local issues,’ Cooper said. ‘It just has statewide and perhaps even national implications.'”
Here is your playlist for the weekend courtesy of Jeff McDaris.
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