We’ve got some alumni and big donors that don’t want you to come back to Duke to be a part of this public policy school,’” said McCrory in January 2021, referring to a job at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. “I was blacklisted by Duke University, I was – every former governor of North Carolina was invited to work in the Public Policy School of Duke University, the Terry Sanford Public Policy School – former governor,” McCrory said. A spokesperson for Duke University told CNN that it was inaccurate of McCrory to say that “every former governor of North Carolina was invited to work in the Public Policy School of Duke University” and declined to comment further.