(Townhall) While we’ve been saying that this election will likely come down to seven key battleground states, and it still could, former and potentially future President Donald Trump is enjoying momentum so strong he may not just win in most or in all of those states, but in other states not traditionally considered to be battleground states. Now, in the final days before the election, there looks to be more states seriously in play, and it looks like Vice President Kamala Harris knows it too, which may explain why she’s pulling her ads from North Carolina markets.
There’s been plenty of chatter on Tuesday about how Harris is pulling about $2 million in ads from these markets, despite how the state is considered something of a swing state.
@KamalaHarris giving up on North Carolina..pulling money out. Maybe to drop in Virginia to try and stop the slide ? pic.twitter.com/oTcCAuTJYx
— Chris LaCivita (@LaCivitaC) October 29, 2024
#Election2024: Yesterday, the Kamala Harris campaign placed new #NCPol ad reservations totaling $2.7m for the final week of the election. This morning, the campaign is cutting from those NC reservations. So far today, we’ve seen over $2m removed from NC markets.
— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) October 29, 2024
Kamala’s campaign is pulling out of media buying in North Carolina. As someone who lived in NC, I can tell you the cities listed below are more likely to be blue. This probably means that her campaign doesn’t see a viable path in NC. pic.twitter.com/vLJg9nfjeN
— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) October 29, 2024
RealClearPolling has Trump leading in the swing states overall by +0.9, as he has been for some time. In North Carolina, he’s up by +0.9, making it one of his better states performance-wise. Nate Silver’s forecast for Tuesday has Trump up by +1.2 there against Harris, with the polls trending R+0.2 from the last week and R+1.1 from the last month.
There are some polls showing Harris and Trump tied in the state, while the latest poll, from the Trafalgar Group, has Trump leading Harris by 49.4 percent to 46.2 percent among likely voters, while 3.3 percent are undecided. This is just outside the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
New @trafalgar_group #BattlegroundState #NC General Election #poll (10/25-28)
49.4% @realDonaldTrump
46.2% @KamalaHarris
1.2% Other
3.3% Und#NCpolReport: https://t.co/xxdUimw212 pic.twitter.com/MuC6HlMjAo
— Robert C. Cahaly (@RobertCahaly) October 29, 2024
Over at our sister site of RedState, Sister Toldjah cited NBC News pointing out how the Harris campaign worried that of all the swing states, North Carolina was “a little bit slipping away.” She also mentioned a write-up from Thomas Mills, a Democratic strategist from North Carolina.
As Mills explained on Monday, referring to the weekend that just passed:
Harris not performing well with black voters is something we have heard throughout this campaign, hence panic from the Democrats and the need for former President Barack Obama to try to shame black men into voting for the Democratic nominee.
So, is Harris giving up there? It’s certainly possible, and plenty of users over X have gotten that idea.
Less than a week from Election Day, Kamala Harris concedes swing state North Carolina. https://t.co/1HKVQSJtYH
— Carly Bird (@CarlyABird) October 29, 2024
WOW — IT’S BEING REPORTED THAT KAMALA HARRIS HAS GIVEN UP ON NORTH CAROLINA.
She is reportedly pulling down ads!
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) October 29, 2024
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Kamala has given up on North Carolina.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 29, 2024
