WRAL site "Harris leads Trump in new poll of NC, in drastic reversal"

[NewHendoLib]

https://www.wral.com/story/harris-leads-trump-in-new-poll-of-nc-in-drastic-reversal/21577353/

North Carolina voters have swung to the left by double digits since Kamala Harris took over the Democratic Party's presidential campaign, a new Cook Political Report poll found.

"Donald Trump is now trailing behind Kamala Harris in North Carolina and several other key swing states in the race for president, according to a new poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

It's the first major poll of this election cycle that shows the Republican former president trailing his Democratic challenger in North Carolina. It was released the same day Trump gave a speech in Asheville, and just days after his campaign bought its first television ads in North Carolina — signs that the Trump campaign now sees North Carolina as being in play.

Trump was routinely favored over President Joe Biden in polls before Biden dropped out of the race on July 21. Multiple polls this spring and summer showed Trump up by nearly double digits over Biden in North Carolina. That was a stark contrast to 2020, when Trump won the state by just 1.5% of the vote.

But the Cook Political Report poll on Wednesday found Harris leading Trump by 2 percentage points — a 10-point swing in favor of Democrats from May, when its poll that month found Trump leading Biden by 8 points."

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proud of my fellow NCers. Let's grow the lead and deliver this state for Kamala!

[SoFlaBro]

1. Time for that fuckface Orange Bastard to hit the fucking bricks on goddamn road to prison. Piss on that fucking turd.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Today's shit show in NC did him no favors, he reverted to his usual lies, hate and blatant

and bizarre mis-information.

BTW, haven't heard from you for a while, how's everything?

[NewHendoLib]

3. Hi and thanks - all good here

I just stepped back a bit from news and politics - concentrating on my gardening stuff, and our hiking.

Hoping all is great with you!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. Welcome back and everything is good with me also.

[pat_k]

5. CPR still has NC as Lean R, but I predict . .

. . that could change, perhaps even before the convention, if a couple more polls put it in "toss up" territory.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/presidential-race-ratings

I'm betting a couple of those Likely Rs to will move to Lean R in the not too distant future too.

[Jarqui]

6. They're really tight in the polls right now - so can't get too excited

But with polls like this, a tightening in FL & TX this week, she is flirting with breaking this thing wide open
She hasn't seemed to hit a wall yet.

Trump seems to have a pretty low ceiling ...

[former9thward]

7. Is there a link to the poll?

The link in the OP says this:

Cook Political Report Page not found

The requested page could not be found.

[wishstar]

9. Here is Cook Political Report Page from link in article:

https://www.cookpolitical.com/survey-research/2024-swing-state-project/fight-redefine-2024-race-president

[former9thward]

27. Thanks.

Unfortunately, the math behind the poll (the crosstab) is available for subscribers only.

View the August 2024 poll crosstabs (CPR subscribers only).

[Sky Jewels]

8. Hooooo Mama!

Trump is gonna explode and leave only a pile of toxic orange goo.

[mdbl]

10. I don't care about polls. I want to know what's being done to secure our elections

from republican law-breakers national and state who plan to screw the elections.

[wishstar]

16. At least in NC we have Dem Gov Cooper running a good election system unlike some states

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2024/07/18/north-carolina-election-democrat-republican-vote/74431835007/

"NC runs very secure elections

North Carolina elections are “very secure” both in terms of protecting the election from hackers and how ballots are handled, said Col. (retired) James Hardaway, with the Ballot Security, Cybersecurity and List Maintenance Committee. Hardaway served in Army intelligence for 27 years and after retirement moved into cybersecurity and modernizing systems.

“I’m trained to see the bad things that can happen in technology,” he said. “I’m very secure in how I feel about our elections. The public is not.”

North Carolina voters use paper ballots and its voting systems are relatively simple, which Hardaway said was an advantage in terms of security."

I've been an election worker in several NC precincts over the years and I believe if all states were as good as NC, we wouldn't have to worry unless an extremist Repub Gov took over and ruined it.

[highplainsdem]

11. Great news!

[4TheArts]

12. Daring to hope

I wonder can I dare to hope that some of that shift away from dRumpf is occurring here in the SW corner of the state. Even among the arts community quite a lot of folks are cult members. Gathering of veteran groups is always shaded by red hats, unlike my old USAF fatigue green one. The county wide results will undoubtedly go majority for the orange hued one, but I'd like to see the percentage drop a few points less than the 70+ percent rethug it normally does.

[BigDemVoter]

13. Those nasty Maggots must be shitting in their drawers.

[Demnation]

14. Harris in the lead. Clearly this means big trouble ahead for the Dems.

[liberalla]

19. Yes, CLEARLY!

[Dem4life1970]

15. Great, great news!

K & R

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Great news!

I just don't understand why Biden was so unpopular. Daily drumbeat from Trump? Age? He enacted real policies that helped people, he solved the pandemic, he steadied the nation after Trump ... no cigar.

[et tu]

22. i don't understand it either

except perhaps younger generations just
couldn't get past his age- sad

[dchill]

18. Looks like we're going to have to insist..

... that the Republicans stick with their nominee!

[barbtries]

20. Let's do this!

Obama won this state in 2008. Yes We Can!!!

[PennRalphie]

21. She's in the lead here in PA too

Just not the time to be complacent. I’ve thought all along that Biden and now Harris would easily win. Once the convention comes and her policies are out there, her numbers should grow even more.

We’ve got this. We just need to keep getting even more voters for her.

[llmart]

23. So the orange, oldest-person-in-the-race, was in Asheville?

I think Asheville is pretty liberal, so I'm wondering what sort of reaction he got there.

[alison_in_nc]

24. Oh please, please, please!

I am so ready for NC to tip to the Dems.

[wordstroken]

25. Oh, Wow!!! That is such great news!!

Thank you, NewHendoLib!

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. There's a wave building way off-shore...but it's getting volume as it approaches the coast.

Stay tuned for further updates,

[OldBaldy1701E]

28. Turning my home state blue again would be a coup of amazing proportions.

And, what a slap in the face to the NCGOP! It would be epic.

(The state is still gerrymandered to hell and back, and seemingly on a race to the bottom with some other states, but still... I know more than a few people around there who would go ballistic. They have been insufferable since the rethug takeover and this would pop that arrogance bubble quite effectively.)