NC GOP are the worst Republican state party now (I live here). That's no easy feat considering how awful they are in OH, FL, IA and elsewhere too!

Part of the reason they are trying to steal the seat rightfully won by the incumbent justice is because they were thrown off by the Dem wins for AG, LG, and state superintendent outright (they wrote off the governor's race) -- and the cure period that put Riggs as the winner over Griffin put them over the edge. They are scared of how Anderson Clayton whipped the state Dem party back into fighting shape -- and they want to keep their state Supreme Court from flipping back to Dem control in 2028.

Because if Riggs prevails, Earls wins re-election next year and 2 or all three seats flip in 2028 -- their partisan gerrymandering and 12-week abortion ban goes sayonara in time for the 2030 midterms AND census.