{"id":2219050,"date":"2024-04-11T23:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-on-team-bidens-mind-does-the-president-have-a-realistic-chance-at-nabbing-the-usually-red-state-from-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:03:01","slug":"north-carolina-on-team-bidens-mind-does-the-president-have-a-realistic-chance-at-nabbing-the-usually-red-state-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-on-team-bidens-mind-does-the-president-have-a-realistic-chance-at-nabbing-the-usually-red-state-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Is President Biden eyeing North Carolina as a potential win from Trump&#8217;s usual stronghold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-carolina-on-team-bidens-mind-does-the-president-have-a-realistic-chance-at-nabbing-the-usually-red-state-from-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2024 reelection campaign focuses on North Carolina, a historically Republican \u200bstate tantalizingly close to\u200d Democratic victory. With changing demographics and strategic investments, Biden aims to turn the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-corrupted-software-that-stole-6000-votes-from-trump-in-michigan-county-shut-down-for-two-hours-in-red-counties-in-georgia-on-election-day\/\" title=\"Update: Corrupted Software that Stole 6,000 Votes From Trump in Michigan County -- Shut Down for TWO HOURS in Red Counties in Georgia on Election Day\">battleground state<\/a> \u200dblue. Analysts predict a tight race, making North Carolina a key target for \u200bthe Biden\u2063 team. Voter turnout is crucial in a \u2064state known\u2064 for switching between parties in \u2063statewide\u200c elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> reelection campaign efforts at expanding the 2024 election playing field begin with the rolling hills of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The state has been just out of grasp for Democrats since the anomaly of 2008, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Barack Obama<\/a> clinched victory by less than half a percentage point in his White House win over GOP rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-mccain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John McCain<\/a>. Outside of that, Republican presidential candidates haven\u2019t lost North Carolina since Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia, a fellow Southerner, prevailed in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>But with changing demographics, a slate of controversial Republican down-ballot candidates, and an early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-reporters-glorify-themselves-into-gi-joe\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: Reporters Glorify Themselves Into GI Joe\">ground game<\/a> set up, the Biden team is betting this is the year the purple state turns blue. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>North Carolina has seen a huge influx of people moving from Democratic-run states such as California and New York. (Examiner photo illustration) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes is an insurance policy for the Biden campaign. Winning there would provide political breathing room if it comes up short in one or more currently \u201cmust-win\u201d states, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Donald Trump famously won that trio in 2016, putting him over the magic 270-electoral vote mark in one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippi-republican-governor-tate-reeves-wins-re-election\/\" title=\"Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves Wins Re-Election\">biggest political upsets<\/a> of the modern political era. But then Trump saw the \u201cblue wall\u201d get rebuilt in 2020 when Biden won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin while also claiming the longtime red states of Arizona and Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Biden campaign has been making historic early and significant investments in North Carolina, which went to Trump by a margin of 1.3 points in 2020, down from the 3 points former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Trump by in 2016. This year, analysts expect it to be tighter \u2014 possibly the closest race of the swing states. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the key battleground this cycle,\u201d Kian Sadjadi, executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cLooking at the information that\u2019s coming back from the field and from voters out in the community, we really do feel like we are going to do it this cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina gives Democrats hope for a few reasons. One regularly cited by politicos is the demographic shifts, which favor Democrats. It\u2019s not shocking that the population is decreasing in rural counties (Republican strongholds) and increasing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-state-blues-gets-worse\/\" title=\"Blue State Blues Gets Worse\">urban centers<\/a> and suburbs (Democratic hotbeds). North Carolinians are concentrating. Two years ago, half the state\u2019s population lived in 20 counties out of 100 in the state. Now that\u2019s down to 10. The growth of these areas is so drastic that both Raleigh and Charlotte routinely make lists of the top 10 growing metro regions in the country. <\/p>\n<h2>Democratic hurdles remain<\/h2>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s not as simple as Democrat versus Republican in North Carolina, according to Thomas Mills, a political blogger and commentator in the Tar Heel State. The state has a history of voting independently of its conservative characterization and voting in opposition to registration trends. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnlocke.org\/two-years-of-changes-in-north-carolina-voter-registrations\/?utm_source=WFAE+News&#038;utm_campaign=8f4fd446ac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_21_07_26_COPY_01&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_-f749f95f78-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&#038;mc_cid=8f4fd446ac&#038;mc_eid=fccc4ddb69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number<\/a> of registered Democrats has shrunk, while Republicans\u2019 numbers have grown.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Democrats, and specifically the Biden reelection team based in Wilmington, Delaware, have reasons for optimism. North Carolina has seen a huge influx of people moving from Democratic-run states such as California and New York. Democrats have also won nine of the past 12 gubernatorial races in North Carolina. Further, though Obama\u2019s 2008 North Carolina win was the last for a Democratic presidential candidate, subsequent races have been close \u2014 miles away from the 10-plus-point victories Republicans enjoyed in 2000 and 2004 with George W. Bush heading the GOP ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegistration numbers don\u2019t mean as much as they did at one time,\u201d Mills said. \u201cYou\u2019re better to look at demographics.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>(Illustration by Tatiana Lozano \/ Washington Examiner; AP and Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Given this, analysts are hesitant about placing North Carolina firmly in Republican grips. Another ray of light for the Biden camp is the tendency for the state to revert to centrist candidates in statewide elections. This cycle, Republicans have possibly shot themselves in the foot by putting forward \u201cvery extreme\u201d candidates, starting with the GOP gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, per Sadjadi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of evidence that just hatred, fear, dislike of the other party really gets people to the polls,\u201d said Steven Greene, professor of political science at North Carolina State University. \u201cIn that sense, Mark Robinson, to some degree, is potentially the best boon there could be for Democratic turnout in North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the gubernatorial race, Robinson is up against Attorney General Josh Stein in what may become the most expensive state race in the country. Stein, a career politician endorsed by the current governor, is a possibly much more appealing candidate than Robinson, who, as a pastor, has leaned into offensive conspiracy theories about Michelle Obama being a man, called homosexuality \u201cfilth,\u201d and said the transgender movement is \u201cdemonic.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>(AP Photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further down the ballot, even the most pessimistic Democrats were shocked by the Republicans\u2019 candidate for superintendent of public instruction. Michele Morrow has supported applying the death penalty to prominent Democrats, at one point tweeting she would like to see Barack Obama executed by firing squad. She has also called public schools \u201cindoctrination centers\u201d and urged parents not to send their children there. <\/p>\n<p>Morrow beat state Superintendent Catherine Truitt\u00a0for the GOP nomination in the March 5 Republican primary. Morrow\u00a0will face Mo Green, a longtime school administrator, who won the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s got to be a lot of Republicans who are looking at this, going, \u2018What in the world did we just do?&#8217;\u201d Mills said. \u201c[Republicans] nominated a bunch of people who are not really competent people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the ballot, the Democratic Party has been putting in the work. In 2022, Democrats failed to put candidates up in 44 of 170 state legislative races, seemingly exemplifying lackluster interest in the state. This year, there will be Democratic candidates in all but two of those 44 races. <\/p>\n<p>For party officials, that investment is expected to go far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t just build a relationship with one conversation,\u201d Sadjadi said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that takes time to develop. And it takes time to sort of build that trust and get people who might have felt left behind by previous campaigns or previous cycles to sort of come back and to feel like they really are part of the team with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A long-term, well-funded campaign is how Democrats plan to build on their momentum. A Biden campaign source told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that staffing started six months earlier than in 2020, with the opening of 10 campaign offices across the state, in addition to the Raleigh headquarters. The campaign is investing more money into the state by \u201ca significant degree,\u201d according to Sadjadi, and North Carolina was included in the Biden campaign\u2019s battleground state ad buy, which totaled $25 million. It is targeting black and Hispanic media, educating young students on voter ID laws, and sending staffers to geographically diverse locations, and it has already seen positive feedback, according to Sadjadi. <\/p>\n<p>Building a ground campaign is nothing without attention from the head honchos, though, so the president himself has visited to show his personal focus on the Tar Heel State. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been getting consistent visits by the president, the vice president, the first lady, the second gentleman,\u201d Sadjadi said. \u201cThey\u2019re spending their time and resources coming to the state, making sure that we are on the map.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Republicans still like their chances<\/h2>\n<p>Lackluster fundraising and a busy court schedule have kept Trump from matching Biden\u2019s head start \u2014 his campaign has yet to set up a ground game in the battleground state. However, his ability to turn out Republican voters in the last two elections should give supporters of the former president hope. Trump was able to drive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsbe.gov\/results-data\/voter-turnout\/2020-general-election-turnout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">81%<\/a> of registered Republicans to the polls in 2020. That\u2019s a record \u201cnobody had ever seen,\u201d according to Mills. <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s team is hoping Trump\u2019s \u201cburn it down\u201d mentality has alienated enough Republicans to dampen turnout. However, North Carolina State University\u2019s Greene said his appeal shouldn\u2019t be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is Trump,\u201d Greene said. \u201cWhat he is able to do as a candidate, his strengths, his weaknesses, what he can say and get away with that other candidates have never been able to, is very different.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the Biden camp manages to tame the red tide in North Carolina, Democrats are hopeful for success overall in the general. Trump\u2019s road to victory, Sadjadi said, goes right through the state, and they want to stop him there. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Biden is winning North Carolina, it\u2019s probably a good year for Biden, which I think a lot of people are writing off but still remains very much a possibility,\u201d Greene said. \u201cMaybe not the most likely, but certainly a possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden&#8217;s 2024 reelection campaign aims for a broader electoral map, starting in North Carolina. Since 2008, when Obama won the state by a small margin, Democrats have struggled to secure it. 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