Edmunds, Morgan To Face Off For Seat On State Supreme Court

WUNC | By Jeff Tiberii

Published June 7, 2016 at 9:27 PM EDT

Wake County Judge Mike Morgan and Incumbent Bob Edmunds move on to the November election.

A field of candidates vying for a spot on the state Supreme Court has been cut in half.

Incumbent Bob Edmunds and Wake County Judge Mike Morgan received the top two vote totals on Tuesday.

Edmunds carried about half of the vote, while Morgan received roughly a third of the support.

They will square off in November for a seat on the seven-member court.

Legal followers say this race could swing the balance of the state’s high court.

Edmunds is a conservative and his vote has led to a 4 to 3 split in recent years. Morgan is a Democrat.

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Jeff Tiberii first started posing questions to strangers after dinner at La Cantina Italiana, in Massachusetts, when he was two-years-old. Jeff grew up in Wayland, Ma., an avid fan of the Boston Celtics, and took summer vacations to Acadia National Park (ME) with his family. He graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. His experience with NPR member stations WAER (Syracuse), WFDD (Winston-Salem) and now WUNC, dates back 15 years.

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