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election given the storm’s impact on more than 1 million battleground state residents weeks before Nov. 5.that was devastated in late September by a historic hurricane that tore through the mountains and valleys surrounding Asheville.
“There’s a lot of displacement in Western North Carolina. Now, Asheville is a blue dot,” said Axelrod in a recent episode of the political podcast. “But those voters in Asheville are — they’re, they’re the kind of voters that will figure out a way to vote. I’m not sure a bunch of these folks who had their homes and lives destroyed elsewhere in Western North Carolina in the mountains there are going to be as easy to wrangle for the Trump campaign.
Residents in the region remain without electricity and water. North Carolina’s election officials said Monday that it has affected early voting, absentee voting, and Election Day procedures. Republicans comprised the second-highest share of voters: 480,916, followed by 293,397 Democratic voters. The next largest share of voters was within the Libertarian Party: 8,410, followed by smaller numbers from the Constitution Party, Green Party, Justice for All Party, No Labels Party, and We the People Party.votes out of 5.4 million ballots cast.
North Carolina is a battleground state that Trump and Harris have frequented this election season to shore up support. TrumpA spokesman for the state elections boardlast week that absentee ballots sent out via mail could have been damaged in the storm, but officials “have no way of knowing.” The Democratic-majority board voted 5-0 to allow county election boards in 13 affected counties to change early voting procedures and Election Day voting sites, as well as the ability to hire more poll workers.
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