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The N.C. Republican Party will see a complete leadership change at the top. GOP Vice-Chairman Wayne King announced Monday he would not seek re-election at the party's June convention. Chairman Robin Hayes previously announced he would step down.

“I am confident that the future is very bright for our party," King said in a statement. "Our new governor and our Republican majorities in the state House and state Senate are charting a new conservative vision for our state that will protect our freedoms, transform our economy and return our state to prosperity."

King recently joined Congressman Mark Meadows' office as a senior advisor. Gov. Pat McCrory is backing former Wake County GOP Chairman Claude Pope to lead the party. The list of candidates for vice-chairman is wide open. One announced candidate is former state Rep. Glen Bradley.

Both the state Republican Party and the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney are criticizing President Barack Obama for giving a TV interview today on a South Carolina television station.

Obama is scheduled to appear on WYFF-NBC in Greenville S.C. that broadcasts into Henderson-Asheville households.

The state GOP called it “dodgeball.''

“If President Obama wants to talk with North Carolina voters, he should come back to the state to do so,” said Rob Lockwood, the state GOP spokesman. “President Obama chose to proxy his interview in South Carolina because he hopes that the station won't ask about the unacceptably high unemployment in North Carolina, the N.C. Democratic party scandal, the financial woes regarding the DNC Convention or any other problems plaguing Democrats in the Tar Heel State.''

Actually, Obama has been giving interviews to TV stations in most local North Carolina media markets over the past year including WRAL in Raleigh and WTVD in Durham.

 Obama has visited the state four times during the past six months, while Romney has visited the state once.

UPDATE: Romney has actually been to the state twice.

The state Republican Party lost little time in going after Walter Dalton, the freshly minted Democratic nominee, tying him to Gov. Bev Perdue, in this web ad.