Republican Candidate for Attorney General Wants To Turn NC into Texas
Channel: Cardinal & Pine
Date: 2024-04-09

NC should follow the example set by stark red Texas and Florida, Dan Bishop, the Republican candidate for NC Attorney General, said in a recent interview with a conservative talk show. Those states recently passed some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

Bishop, who is currently a US Congressman representing North Carolina’s 8th district, told the program’s hosts that if elected attorney general, he would work with the Republican-controlled legislature to defend in court any far-right laws they pass, including more restrictions on abortion and measures that make it harder to vote.

“The result will be to consolidate North Carolina as a not a purple state, but an absolutely clear state where common sense prevails as a red state,” Bishop said. “And in consequence, just like in Florida and in Texas, people will flow there.”

While Texas and Florida are widely conservative, North Carolina is nearly evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. In fact, there are more registered Democrats in the state. And though Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden by just over a percentage point in 2020, Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, beat his Republican opponent by four and a half points.

Bishop’s Democratic opponent, Jeff Jackson, says he will use the office to defend abortion rights.