Donald Trump is not taking any probabilities in battleground North Carolina — making 4 stops within the state over two days — on Tuesday in addition to Monday.
The polls listed below are tight. However greater than that, the previous president’s advisers are keenly conscious that a number of the state’s counties hardest hit by flooding from Hurricane Helene are deeply conservative.
He wants voters to prove in these counties to win right here once more.
Trying via the state’s election information, in 2020 Trump received 23 of the 25 counties included within the federal catastrophe declaration in North Carolina.
Whereas Trump continues to be making false claims in regards to the administration’s response to the storm, there’s been a notable shift in a single space particularly: early voting.
After railing towards mail-in voting and early voting for years, he is now urging folks to vote early if they will.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a religion occasion on the Harmony Conference Middle, Oct. 21, 2024, in Harmony, N.C.
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At his rally Monday night time, indicators urged residents to make a plan to get to the polls.
Each Democrats and Republicans really feel optimistic in regards to the robust early voting numbers on this state.
And we noticed why as we traveled throughout the state — lengthy traces stretched outdoors polling areas with Democrats and Republicans lining up one after one other, able to forged their ballots.
Residents mark their ballots at an early voting web site contained in the Greensboro Coliseum advanced, venue for a marketing campaign rally by Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump later within the day, in Greensboro, North Carolina, October 22, 2024.
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We met voter Roger Mills in Charlotte. He instructed us he would not love all the things Donald Trump says however he’s voting for him anyway.
“I do not like the best way the nation’s headed proper now. I am a kind of that thinks we’re headed within the incorrect course. So, I believed, hey, I favored it in 2016 to 2020 I favored it properly, aside from the pandemic. So, I mentioned I would wish to get again to that,” Mills mentioned.
He referred to as the previous president “abrasive.”
“He talks with out considering generally, however I like his insurance policies — his insurance policies, I consider are good for America,” he mentioned, including, “[Harris] flip-flopped so many instances I am unable to inform the place she stands.”
Angela Larry was at that polling location, too. She was desirous to forged her poll for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I am excited! I used to attend for Election Day to be a part of the method however I am a part of the method right this moment,” she mentioned after she voted early. As a mom, she instructed us she helps Harris due to her stance on reproductive rights.
“We have now a selection. Our our bodies. We’re females. We have to make the selections. I do not like that somebody who would not have a clue — that may’t stroll the stroll — has one thing to say what ladies undergo,” she mentioned.
Like many citizens we have met — Angela Larry is simply prepared for all of it to be over.
“I simply wish to get it over with. I am prepared for it to be over.”
Two weeks to go …
