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Good morning, readers.
I desperately wanted to win the raffle at the Durham GOP open house on Tuesday night.
In the party’s new headquarters in a refurbished garage on Hillsborough Road, I sipped my champagne punch and anxiously checked my ticket number. As one of 40 or so attendees, I thought I had a pretty decent shot at walking out with a prize.
It’s not that I particularly wanted the actual prize—the Trump and MAGA merch, piled high on a table in the corner, would not win me many friends in ultra-blue Durham—but I never win raffles, and I was hoping that fortune would smile upon my effort to check in with the Bull City’s minority party and see what, if anything, the new headquarters said about the local group’s outlook.
Did the new building lease coincide with a new lease on life for the Durham Republicans?
Over the potluck dinner, attendees discussed their attempts to go to the inauguration, aired their hopes for President Trump’s “unifying” policies, and, buoyed by the national win, dreamed of winning a city council seat.
Read more about my quirky evening with the Durham Republicans—and find out if I won the raffle—here.
And have a good weekend.
—Chase
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Wake
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Orange
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North Carolina
Two state agencies announced they’re ending internal initiatives to promote diversity and equity, after Trump made the same move at the federal level.
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Today’s weather
Sunny with a high of 44 degrees.
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