Thread by @will_doran

Lots of attention paid to Trump/Biden and Tillis/Cunningham of course, but control of the state legislature is up for grabs this year too. Here's a good @ludkmr primer on which races to watch in the NC Senate carolinapublicpress.org/39140/nc-senat… #ncpol #ncga

And here's a story I wrote, 364 days ago, on how if Biden and Trump run at a virtual 50-50 tie here, Republicans will likely hold onto the state legislature. Democrats likely need a substantial Biden win here to take back the #NCGA newsobserver.com/news/politics-…

Story today from @_lucysherman on the record Republicans are running on now--after a decade in power, following a century of Democratic control

(although of course the Democratic Party of most of the 20th Century looks a lot like the GOP of today) newsobserver.com/news/politics-…

Here's the lede of her article, which in the next paragraph informs me that Julia Howard has been a state legislator longer than I've been alive (!!!) #ncpol #ncga

Here's an except from my story above. Democrats already have basically all the legislative seats in the bigger cities/suburbs. So if they want a majority, they might have to sway some Trump voters to their side for local races

We'll know in a few days how that went. #ncpol #ncga

I'll end this thread on control of the #NCGA by noting that we reporters don't come up with all this on our own. Read these articles and you'll see folks like @JMilesColeman @SamWangPhD @BowTiePolitics @FerrelGuillory and others quoted. We couldn't do this job without them!