Seems like it was ripe for his taking. A lot of demographic shifts favoring the Dems, including a growing population in the heavily educated research triangle.
Seems like it was ripe for his taking. A lot of demographic shifts favoring the Dems, including a growing population in the heavily educated research triangle.
I mean, tbf the margin between Trump & Biden was like 75k votes but I think that Biden just didn't expect to have those 75k votes lean in Trump's favor.
People heavily overestimate how big of a stronghold the Research Triangle and even the Charlotte Metropolitan areas are in NC. Sure, Trump lost votes in Durham, Wake, and Mecklenberg counties in between 2016 and 2020 - but he only widened his already-wide lead in the counties that border the urban pockets of NC. Places like Scotland and Lenoir counties - where votes for democrats and republicans have historically been cast pretty evenly or leaning slightly Dem (in Scotland's case) - were the counties where Trump picked up an extra couple thousand votes. Which meant that Biden's slim lead from Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, and Asheville wasn't enough.
Not to mention - of course - that Biden did the typical democrat shit of making a pledge to support the Lumbee Recognition Act and Trump one-upped him by saying "me too!" & then going so far as to, as he did in 2016 in other areas of NC, hold a rally in Robeson county.
Libs will tell you "NC is just super rural and racist in those areas no wonder they went for trump!!" but do this :shocked-pikachu: when you point out that:
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