North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall's rapid rise to power

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North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall's rapid rise to power

By Anita Rao,

Rachel McCarthy

Published January 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST

North Carolina state Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, center, speaks at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 19. 2024, after the House Republican Caucus chose him as its nominee to be the House speaker for the 2025-26 General Assembly session (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

At 37 years old, North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall is the youngest person to hold that position in 200 years, writes Jim Morrill in a for The Assembly.

瓜神app's Anita Rao talks with Morrill, a former political reporter for The Charlotte Observer, about Rep. Hall's early years in Caldwell County and his legislative priorities for the current session.

Guest

Jim Morrill, freelance writer and former political reporter for The Charlotte Observer, who recently wrote 鈥淗ow Destin Hall Rose From Humble Beginnings to House Speaker鈥� for The Assembly.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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Rachel McCarthy

Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at 瓜神app as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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