• The Greensboro News & Record profiles House-57 Republican candidate Wendell Sawyer. The seat is now held by Democratic Rep. Pricey Harrison.
  • Pender County commissioners vote down a resolution backed by a Republican state senate candidate to bar illegal immigrants from entering community colleges.
  • Civitas poll: Republicans still lead a generic ballot for state-level offices.
  • The 8th congressional district primary might be crowded with Republicans, but they’re aiming most of their fire at the Democrat incumbent, Larry Kissell, reports the Charlotte Observer.
  • Three GOP candidates are vying to take on U.S. Rep. Mel Watt in the 12th congressional district.
  • Rayne Brown, Republican candidate hoping to challenge House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman in the general election, makes her pitch at a political forum in Thomasville.
  • N.C. Senate losing five of its 16 most effective members, according to new rankings.