It's Friday, September 20th. Democrats got one of their candidates to drop out.

Republicans were hoping for one of theirs. We start here.

A bombshell report upends the governor's race in North Carolina.

Those are not the words of Mark Robinson.

You know what's bad when a porn site is the least scandalous part of the story.

Now could this affect the national election picture?

Israel resumes airstrikes against Hezbollah.

This is obviously ramping up, which makes the region nervous.

But we're now getting intel from sources about how those pagers were rigged to explode.

And if someone offered you dirt on your political opponent, would you take it?

This is information from inside the Trump campaign.

The new accusations about how Iran tried to subvert an election.

From ABC News, this is start here. I'm Brad Milky.

We are now 45 days from election day and for much of yesterday it felt like just

another day you had campaign events for both major candidates you had polls

coming out some showing Kamala Harris with an ever so slight lead in the battleground

state of Pennsylvania, like significant but normal stuff.

Then we started hearing that North Carolina Republicans were freaking out. By all accounts the race in North Carolina is going to be tight.

That applies to the presidential race but also the governor's race and back in March

Republicans nominated the current lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson.

Paint this state red! God bless you!

He is a self-described culture warrior. He's also the state's first black nominee for governor

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