Artificial intelligence has been making its way into this campaign cycle, with concerns about AI-generated campaign ads leading to confusion over content. Two-thirds of Americans are at least somewhat concerned about AI’s use in this year’s midterms. Thirty-one states have enacted some form of regulation for AI in political campaigning, but North Carolina has not. We discuss how AI is shaping our elections.

Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to return to North Carolina on Wednesday for a campaign event in support of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley.Vance is set to speak at a 2 p.m. event in Kinston.The visit comes as Whatley seeks to gain ground on Democrat Roy Cooper in the race for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Election Day is in one week, and there are five days of early voting remaining. The share of registered Republicans who have voted so far is down compared to the 2018 and 2022 midterms.

With the midterm elections a week away, President Donald Trump is set to return to South Carolina on Thursday to campaign for Republican Darline Graham.

Florida-based Paradigm promised jobs from a battery plant in storm-battered Burnsville. With no progress, Yancey Co. wants acreage returned.

Ken McCool considered himself an apolitical person for much of his life. That changed when his class at Providence High School was visited by a state politician: Tricia Cotham, a Democrat who had graduated from the school in 1997. She spoke to the class about her work in the legislature, igniting in McCool an interest in running for public office.

Latino voters in Mecklenburg County have cast far more early ballots in this year’s midterm election than at the same point in 2022.

Early voting numbers have already far surpassed numbers from this point in the 2022 midterm election, according to data from the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections. But the numbers don't just reflect voter enthusiasm — compared with data from the last midterm, it also seems to reflect voter anxiety.

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Hurricane Helene and the economic troubles it left behind influence what politicians say on the campaign trail.