Jeff Jackson

Mecklenburg state Sen. Jeff Jackson dropped out of the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Thursday morning.

State Sen. Jeff Jackson of Charlotte, who's running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat, said the five most endangered hospitals in the U.S. are in North Carolina. Fact-checker Paul Specht of WRAL and PolitiFact says that's wrong and joins us to help analyze Jackson's claim.

In his bid for U.S. Senate, Democrat Jeff Jackson has campaigned on legalizing marijuana. But while Jackson has campaigned on legalizing marijuana in North Carolina, he hasn’t been a key player on legalization bills during this legislative session. Why the disparity?

Mecklenburg state Sen. Jeff Jackson is running for the open U.S. Senate seat in 2022. He's a social media star and has drawn huge crowds in his 100-county tour of North Carolina — but none of his colleagues in the Mecklenburg County's legislative delegation are backing him.

A bill is moving through the North Carolina state senate that would prevent hotel guests from receiving tenant protections until they've lived at the hotel for at least 90 days.

The U.S. Senate hopeful was accurate when he said he was one of two state senators who voted against the current law in 2016.

The 2020 election results were barely finalized by the time the 2022 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina started heating up.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee said in a press release this month that Democratic candidate and current state Sen. Jeff Jackson of Charlotte has flip-flopped on his view of abolishing the filibuster. What happens when that's put through the Flip-O-Meter?

North Carolina state Sen. Jeff Jackson had a sizeable fundraising advantage entering this month over other Democratic opponents in the 2022 U.S. Senate race, while a former Republican congressman running also has flush coffers so far, according to new campaign finance reports.

Jeff Jackson, a state senator from Mecklenburg County, will announce Tuesday that he's running for U.S. Senate. Erica Smith is also running on the Democratic side. Republican incumbent Richard Burr is not running for reelection, so there could be many candidates from both parties.