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Phil Berger is a Republican from Eden and the president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate.

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Phil Berger
stated on February 25, 2019 in a speech:

"Since 2011, the gap in high school graduation rates between African-American students and all students has been cut in half, from 6.4 percent to 3.1 percent."

By Bill McCarthy • March 7, 2019
Phil Berger
stated on December 19, 2018 in a press release:

Says former North Carolina elections board chairman "tried to drag a cancer-stricken woman out of her hospital bed to testify at her son’s hearing on the first day of early voting over a bogus complaint that the board hadn’t even fully investigated."

By Paul Specht • January 8, 2019
Phil Berger
stated on December 8, 2017 in a press release:

"Death penalty opponents like Roy Cooper and Josh Stein have imposed a de-facto moratorium on capital punishment."

By Paul Specht • January 3, 2018
Phil Berger
stated on September 15, 2017 in In a press release:

North Carolina has "the strictest anti-gerrymandering standards in the entire country."

By Paul Specht • October 5, 2017
Phil Berger
stated on March 13, 2017 in a the GOP response to Roy Cooper's State of the State speech:

Says Republican legislators in North Carolina raised the average teacher's pay "by more than 15 percent in just three years."

By Will Doran • March 16, 2017

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