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WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation About NC's Primary Elections

WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNC
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNC
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016

This week’s WUNCPolitics podcast is an extended version of our regular Week In State Politics segment that airs every Friday with Rob Schofield, executive director of the progressive N.C. Policy Watch, and Becki Gray, senior vice president of the conservative John Locke Foundation. This week, Rob and Becki talk with WUNC’s Rusty Jacobs about the upset in the GOP primary in the 9th Congressional district (and the coming race against a strong democratic challenger), surprises in legislative races, and what to expect in the upcoming short legislative session.On the WUNCPolitics Podcast, an extended conversation about this week's primary election with Rob Schofield, executive director of the progressive N.C. Policy Watch, and Becki Gray, senior vice president of the conservative John Locke Foundation.

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Rusty Jacobs is a politics reporter for WUNC. Rusty previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007 and now returns after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at Carolina and then worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.