Law-and-order Senate nominee Michael Whatley faced arrest for skipping court in 2015 NC traffic case

By: Brandon Kingdollar

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: April 25, 2026

Words: 1,199

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 2 days ago

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In December 2015 — the same month future Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley got the call to run Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign in North Carolina — he received a different kind of summons: an arrest order in Rutherford County for failure to appear in court.

Whatley, now the Republican Party’s nominee for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat, has staked his campaign on issues of law and order — casting himself as a …

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