Inside Politics: Election 2022

North Carolina's political maps and assessing the state's Democratic and Republican parties

By Steve Harrison,

Published March 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM EDT

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A three-judge panel told North Carolina lawmakers to use this interim map for the 2022 U.S. House election. Maps the General Assembly redrew for state legislative seats were approved by the court.

In this first episode of Inside Politics: Election 2022, we discuss the political maps in place for North Carolina’s congressional and legislative races. We’ll be joined by J. Michael Bitzer, a politics and history professor at Catawba College and author of "Redistricting and Gerrymandering in North Carolina: Battlelines in the Tar Heel State."

And then we’ll assess the state of North Carolina’s Democratic and Republican parties, and their challenges. We’ll talk to Democratic political consultant Aisha Dew; and Larry Shaheen, a Republican consultant. Both are based in Mecklenburg County.

Inside Politics: Election 2022

Steve Harrison

Steve Harrison is WFAE's politics and government reporter. Prior to joining WFAE, Steve worked at the Charlotte Observer, where he started on the business desk, then covered politics extensively as the Observer’s lead city government reporter. Steve also spent 10 years with the Miami Herald. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Sporting News and Sports Illustrated.

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Tim Funk

Tim Funk is one of the hosts of the "Inside Politics: Election 2022 podcast." He spent most of his 40-year journalism career at The Charlotte Observer, covering politics in its Raleigh bureau and, later, as its Washington correspondent. His other Observer beats over the years included race and immigration, TV and radio, and faith & values.

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Jim Morrill

Jim Morrill is a native of the Chicago area who's worked in the Carolinas since 1979. He covered politics and government for the Charlotte Observer for almost 40 years. He's won several press awards and in 1999 was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He's taught about NC politics at UNC-Charlotte and Davidson College.

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