US elections are often won and lost on the usual battlegrounds (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) but both Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have hit North Carolina multiple times this year because party strategists believe this swing state could be critical come November.
Trump won North Carolina by a tiny 1.4 per cent in 2020, but Republicans fear the Dems could flip it this year, so they’ve embarked on a strategy called ‘Operation Domino’ to help Trump retain the state.
Kamala Harris and Donald TrumpCredit: AP
While US elections tend to centre on the usual battlegrounds – Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona among them – party strategists believe the 2024 path to the Oval Office runs through volatile, swinging North Carolina, where Republicans, Democrats and independents each account for about a third of the voting population.
It’s here that the conservative-dominated state legislature recently redrew the congressional map to give Republicans an advantage – a process known as partisan “gerrymandering” – which could help the party flip several Democrat seats in Congress.
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