{"id":62748,"date":"2026-02-07T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62748"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:51:49","slug":"the-power-of-the-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62748","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of The Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina voters have not been thrilled with their representation in Washington for a while. Thom Tillis never seems to pass up an opportunity to stab his voters in the back. Our representation in the North Carolina legislature also has some serious problems. They don&#8217;t seem to understand that eastern North Carolina is part of the state and contributes to the general welfare of the state.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhaymaker.com\/tired-of-being-played-by-the-gope-get-their-attention-with-the-power-of-the-primary\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPy9KpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeTpjeKy9gRrpom8Frgh1u-fco7SoPnNUg-JV1BgAmFVcZtBaiUqqrOlCQSyw_aem_ylwkRTNyMNNTbQIPM3SqUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Haymaker<\/a> posted an article about the importance of primary elections. If you want to elect Representatives and Congressmen who actually represent you, you have to show up at the primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the article is, &#8220;Tired of being *played* by the GOPe? Get their attention with the power of the primary.&#8221; Yes!<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>We told you earlier about how DOGE has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhaymaker.com\/doge-d-o-n-e-still-eight-months-to-go-on-its-charter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been reduced to something being run out of the Office of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhaymaker.com\/doge-d-o-n-e-still-eight-months-to-go-on-its-charter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Management and Budget.<\/a> \u00a0Now we hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ed-martin-removed-from-role-as-weaponization-czar-justice-dept\/\">Ed Martin has been bounced out of the Government weaponization office at the Department of Justice.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A grand total of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ONE<\/span> cut recommended by DOGE has passed the GOP-controlled Congress. We\u2019veactually got <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">elected<\/span> Republicans reinstating wasteful spending the Trump White House cut via Executive Order. \u00a0We\u2019ve got a lot of elected Republicans \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhaymaker.com\/ted-budd-duplicitous-dewy-eyed-or-just-plain-dumb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> including our not very smart junior US Senator<\/a> \u2014 trying to sabotage the illegal alien cleanup efforts being led by ICE and DHS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;We can\u2019t even get Republicans in Washington to approve voter ID.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Getting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Phil Berger<\/span> out of elected office would be another great grassroots victory. \u00a0According to what I\u2019m hearing out of Rockingham and Guilford counties, that is very possible. <em>(Berger has led the NCGOP\u2019s transformation into an even bigger whoring-for-lobbyist-dollars operation than Basnight or Black could have ever dreamed of.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;You\u2019ve got a good conservative option out there in the 11th. <a href=\"https:\/\/adamrsmithfornc.com\/meet-adam-r-smith\/\">\u00a0A guy with a great free-market name: Adam Smith.<\/a> \u00a0He\u2019s a special forces veteran and a successful small businessman. \u00a0He turned out to be one of the real heroes of the Hurricane Helene relief effort. \u00a0(You know, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhaymaker.com\/whatley-screwing-up-task-trump-assigned-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operation Whatley was supposed to be running.) \u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;In the US Senate race, DC and Raleigh have been trying to shove <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Michael Whatley<\/span> down our throats. \u00a0Trump has been hyper-pissed at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thom Tillis<\/span>. \u00a0Yet, his political operation is trying to replace Tillis with Tillis\u2019s protege and preferred successor. \u00a0The DC party goons have gone overboard scaring all vendors, consultants, donors, and media away from anyone not named Whatley. \u00a0The result of all that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Someone slipped up and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhaymaker.com\/poll-time-brown-whatley-perform-about-the-same-against-cooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ran a poll<\/a> showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donbrownfornc.com\">Don Brown<\/a> performing about as well against Cooper as Whatley is. \u00a0Brown has not been blessed with fundraising and strategy help from DC and Raleigh like Whatley has. \u00a0But he\u2019s hanging right with The Chosen One, St. Michael of Gastonia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The GOPe has been trying to pretend there is no primary for the Senate seat. A primary might have forced Whatley to have to answer for his sycophant protection of Tillis, and his penchant for screwing MAGA activists at every opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you ever want to drain the swamp, you need to vote in the primary election!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina voters have not been thrilled with their representation in Washington for a while. Thom Tillis never seems to pass up an opportunity to stab his voters in the back. Our representation in the North Carolina legislature also has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62748\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17390,18372,18371,12932,10792,8174],"class_list":["post-62748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-department-of-government-efficiency-doge","tag-don-brown","tag-michael-whatley","tag-n-c-senate-leader-phil-berger","tag-the-daily-haymaker","tag-thom-tillis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62749,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62748\/revisions\/62749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}