Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden arrives to speak at a drive-in campaign rally in Durham, N.C., on Sunday. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhen Barack Obama turned North Carolina blue in 2008, Democrats hoped the Obama coalition would usher in a new era of competitiveness in the state. Instead, the next decade-plus was marked largely by disappointing election results — and no more presidential wins for the party.
That trade has worked for Trump in some states in the past. But this year, public polling averages give Biden a slight, 2-to-3 point advantage in a state Trump almost certainly must win to get reelected. Where Obama lost white voters with college degrees by 20 points in North Carolina in 2008, according to exit polls, Biden now holds hefty leads.
The path for Biden in North Carolina was already laid out by Cooper, another old-school Democratic pol who built a different coalition to go with changing times when he squeaked by GOP Gov. Pat McCory in 2016. State Rep. Ashton Clemmons, a Democrat who flipped her suburban Greensboro-based seat in 2018, described a “parallel between McCrory [in 2016] and Trump [in 2020],” noting that “Cooper laid out the path for Biden, and we’re all still treading that path.”
That narrow divide means Black voters still play a critical role for Democrats, as evidenced by Biden and Kamala Harris’ recent event schedule, which has been dedicated almost exclusively to Black mobilization. “This particular year, it has to be a focus because the Republican Party has made such an effort – not in a positive manner – an effort to court or depress the Black vote,” said state House Democratic Leader Robert Reives. “I think there’s always a concern [about Black enthusiasm] because there’s been such an effort to depress it.”
Yup. Obama won it in 2008 & lost in 2012. Biden simple lost it in 2020.
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.. SEE, AS THE ARTICLE SAYS: “DEMOCRATS HOPE TO USE THE ‘VIRUS’ (COVID) AS AN ADVANTAGE, IN THE ‘RACE’ ..” .. THAT’S ALL BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS HAVE ! ‘CORONA VIRUS’ .. PATHETIC!
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