North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan found herself in the unfortunate position of being photographed with an unpopular President Obama at an American Legion event today and did her best to try and put some distance between them, despite the embrace.
Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) greeted President Obama warmly at the airport on his arrival in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday to address the national convention of the American Legion. Smiling broadly on the tarmac and even embracing the president in
Though Barack Obama and Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) will both speak at the American Legion convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, Senator Hagan’s office would not confirm late Monday whether the two would appear on stage together. The convention’s
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) won her senate seat in part by criticizing her rival’s record on veterans’ issues. But with Hagan seeking to distance herself from deeply unpopular President Obama as he comes to Hagan’s state to address the American
North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan has a tough decision to make and any chance for re-election to the Senate may hang in the balance. Does she appear with Barack Obama “a critical audience she’s trying to woo: Veterans,” or pass and
Republican North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis is more aggressively calling out Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) hypocrisy on amnesty as Democrats worry that they can lose the Senate because of the immigration issue. Hagan, who, as late as 2013 said she
Sean Haugh, a 53-year-old Libertarian Party nominee in North Carolina, is imperiling Republican Thom Tillis’s chance to defeat incumbent Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) in North Carolina’s Senate race, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. Hagan leads Tillis
Vulnerable Democrats who have to face the American people, as well as Republicans in this Fall’s elections, are warning Obama to go slow when it comes to taking executive action on illegal immigration. “This is an issue that I believe
Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) position on immigration seems to correlate with how close she is to facing voters at the ballot box. “I oppose amnesty,” Hagan said during a June 21, 2008 debate against then-incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC): We
National Democrats are dropping $9.1 million into North Carolina to protect incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) from GOP challenger and State House Speaker Thom Tillis, Roll Call reports. “House speaker Thom Tillis drew a bull’s-eye on public schools, cutting
In various Senate forecasts, North Carolina has looked tough for Republicans. Earlier this week Five Thirty Eight’s Nate Silver gave Republican nominee Thom Tillis only a 50/50 chance of beating Senator Kay Hagan, the Democrat incumbent who rode the Obama
Friday in Raleigh, Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) was at a re-election event with Planned Parenthood officials to discuss their next steps after the defeat of the bill she and others introduced in the U.S. Senate in an attempt to override the Supreme
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan has her Republican opponent right where she wants him geographically — and, therefore, politically. Thom Tillis is stuck at the state capitol trying to resolve a budget quarrel as speaker
As reported here earlier, Senate Democrat Kay Hagan had no problems making bold pronouncements about her concern for veterans when she was first running for her current office. However, six years later as she runs for a second term, it
North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan appears quick to try and capitalize on the on going Veteran’s Affairs scandal; however, it seems a bit disingenuous of her, given that she was aware of issues in the VA as far back as
In the war between the GOP Establishment and the Tea Party, Tuesday was a bloody day for the Tea Party. GOP Establishment candidates coasted to victories in the North Carolina senate race, a key House primary there, and in Ohio,
On his Thursday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh evaluated the outcomes of Tuesday’s primary races in North Carolina. Despite the disappointing outcome for some Tea Party candidates, Limbaugh said declarations of the demise of the Tea Party were premature.
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis moved ahead of a pair of anti-establishment rivals and bid to avoid a run-off Tuesday night in the race to pick a challenger to imperiled Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, first in
For a Republican establishment still spooked by the ghosts of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock — grassroots-backed conservatives who threw away winnable Senate races in recent elections with tone-deaf remarks about abortion — Tuesday can’t come soon enough. In North
An unexpected new player has entered the advertising wars in advance of tomorrow’s North Carolina Republican U.S. Senate primary. The campaign of incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), who voted for Obamacare and continues to support it, has paid for
North Carolina Freshman Senator Kay Hagan is one of the most vulnerable Senators running for reelection this year. Her challenge to winning reelection is evidenced by a new poll from Elon University showing that just one-third of Tarheel voters approve
ObamaCare continues to wreck havoc on Democrats’ chances this November. A new poll by Democrat firm Public Policy Polling finds incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) trailing ALL of her potential Republican rivals. This is in spite of the fact that
Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) is a red state Democrat who voted for gun control earlier this year and is now losing ground in the polls. To be fair, Hagan and other red state Democrats were assured this would not
A spokeswoman for red state Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) confirmed to a local newspaper Thursday that her boss knew insurance cancellations would increase under the Affordable Care Act. In response to a series of Obamacare questions from North Carolina
In response to Obama: There Were ‘A Whole Bunch Of Folks Up In Congress’ Who Made The Same Promise: Pretty much the only honest statement Barack Obama has made about his “signature achievement” is that a whole bunch of Democrats
Last week, President Obama was forced to apologize for misleading Americans with his oft-repeated claim that, “if you like your plan, you can keep it. Period.” Obama, however, wasn’t the only politician reassuring voters with the claim. Most of the
U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) is now attempting to run as far away from her support of ObamaCare as possible. One hollow but high-profile move Hagan recently made was to demand a full investigation of the ObamaCare exchanges. Hagan is
The millions of Americans receiving cancellation notices on their insurance policies aren’t the only potential victims of ObamaCare. Increasingly, Red State Democrat Senators up for reelection next year worry that the myriad of problems with the rollout of ObamaCare will
Senate Democrats facing reelection in 2014 are scrambling to distance themselves from their prior promises that anyone who wants to keep their healthcare insurance can do so under Obamacare. According to CBS News, over two million Americans have already received
On May 2, the Huffington Post claimed red state Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) will actually fare better in 2014 for having supported gun control. The site bases the claim upon numbers from a poll by Public
From Black Voices News: Approximately 80,000 black farmers missed the deadline for the 1999 settlement. In February 2010, the Obama Administration announced a $1.15 billion agreement to resolve the second round of claims, with the purpose of bringing “these long-ignored
Sen. Bob Bennett suffered a stunning defeat in his quest for re-election Saturday. And as the Senate considers the Obama/Dodd financial ‘reform’ bill, other Senators should be asking themselves if they want to be next. Bennett, representing the most conservative
Yesterday we brought you “As Tea Party Activists Protest Dodd’s Big Brother Bill, Bank of America Deploys Security Forces,” the story of a group of Tea Party and 912 Project protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina who showed up at the
In Charlotte, North Carolina, there’s apparently a growing deadly threat to worry about. It seems that protesters there are getting unruly these days – so unruly that local businesses have brought on extra security detail to help out the local
North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan knocked Elizabeth Dole out of the U.S. Senate after just one term in office on Tuesday, likely ending a storied political career for one of the biggest names in the Republican Party.