RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2024 election promises to feature several major battlegrounds, but for sheer breadth of competitive contests, North Carolina next year will be hard to beat.
Recent presidential contests in North Carolina have been close: In 2020, Donald Trump won North Carolina by about 74,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast.
In other words, in 2024, North Carolina will be one of the centers of the political universe – important in part because it’s a uniquely competitive state.
“North Carolina has proved to be a purple state, but not necessarily a swing state,” says Cooper, the political scientist.
For the better part of two decades, Georgia, like North Carolina, had voted consistently Republican in key federal races – until 2020.
Persons:
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Organizations:
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Locations:
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