• Badge brawl erupts in the Republican Party’s 7th congressional district primary.
  • Republican Jamie Earp withdraws from the House-34 primary due to prior drunk drinking incident.
  • No candidate has emerged as a favorite in the 8th congressional district Republican primary, reports the Fayetteville Observer.
  • State Rep. Wil Neumann, a candidate in the Republican’s Senate-43 primary, is sponsoring a bill to opt N.C. out of the federal health care law.
  • Republican challenging Howard Coble in the primary hopes his financial experience will give him an edge.