JD Vance says it would be 'very hard' for Trump to win without North Carolina
The Map of the Senate Race projections by State Poll Average: North Carolina must be completely held by the Trump campaign in November to ensure that the Republican party wins, said Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters at the Pitt-Greenville Airport after a college football game campaign, the vice presidential nominee said, “It’s very hard for us to win unless we’re able to get North Carolina. ”
Vance also assumed that his ticket would have a good result especially in the eastern and rural areas of the state but he pointed at the populous as key factor towards the victory.
“We just want to remind people to actually get out there, make sure their voices are heard, because the only way we lose this race is that people don’t turn out,” Vance said.
He said he feels “very good” about their ability to take the state which he attributed to his experience of surveying the area years back.
The Trump campaign did not reply to a request for comment on Vance’s comments. The Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign also did not respond to a request for comment either.
Vance was also in North Carolina on Tuesday for a fundraiser, but he was with Trump in North Carolina in the last days of August.
North Carolina went to Trump again in the 2020 election by a margin of 49%. 9% of the vote, but only a few percentages of points behind was President Joe Biden with 48. 6%. No Democratic candidate for presidential nominee has been voted in the state since 2008 when Obama triumphed over McCain by a margin of less than twenty thousand votes.
A September 15 Quinnipiac University poll carried out before Tuesday’s debate revealed that 49% of the likely voters in North Carolina preferred Harris while 46% preferred Trump. The numbers, which were, of course, inside the poll’s margin of error, paint the picture of a very closed battle in a swing state.
It may be therefore, or with their millions spent on advertisements, possible for Democrats to converge on North Carolina as one of the swing states through which they may get to 270 electoral college votes.
Harris conducted two rallies in North Carolina this week, and people as many as 25000 people were estimated to have attended the two events in Greensboro and Charlotte.
NC Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said in a Thursday interview with NBC News that Trump has no other way of clinching the presidency without North Carolina.
Cooper said, ‘We did this in 2008, North Carolina voted for Barack Obama and made history. North Carolina as a state is ready to create a history once more.