Kamala Pulls Campaign Funding From North Carolina

It’s a weird thing: she is going to be in North Carolina Wednesday, doing something or other at Walnut Creek Amphitheater (I’d rather see Judas Priest), but, then, this

Democrat Kamala Harris Surrenders in North Carolina, Withdraws Nearly $2 Million in Planned Ad Spend from State

Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is waving the white flag in North Carolina, surrendering the state to former President Donald Trump as her campaign withdraws nearly $2 million in planned ad buys from television stations statewide one week before the election.

The more than $1.7 million in canceled ad buys by Harris’s campaign in North Carolina suggests that her team believes, given polling data and early vote data, that the Tar Heel State is no longer in play for her.

More than 3 million people have already voted in early voting in North Carolina, which can be done via mail-in absentee ballot or via in-person locations around the state. Republicans, interestingly, for the first time ever actually lead the early vote–North Carolina provides the partisan breakdown and demographic data on early voters in the state–something they have done now for more than a week. This remarkably consistent GOP lead has shocked political observers, and comes as demographic data also suggests Democrats face serious issues in competing at the top of the ticket in the state. Black voter turnout is down approximately 3 percent from 2020, and about 1 percent more men than women, as compared with 2020, are voting in the state. These strong headwinds against Harris in North Carolina were proving to be a major issue for her in the closing days of the campaign as she set to flip the only battleground state out of seven nationwide that Trump won in 2020. For comparison purposes, again Trump won North Carolina in 2020–and the electorate per the early voting data based on millions of votes cast so far suggests a much more GOP-friendly electorate even than then.

In addition, older voters are turning out in much higher numbers while younger voters are dropping off from last time:

Has she given up? Because she’ll be here and Tampon Tim will be cavorting around (no one knows where) NC. Is it just not worth spending the money in NC? Why not go to Virginia, if that is the case? Older voters will definitely skew in Trump’s favor. Maybe because the top issues are exactly what Kamala is bad at?

(WTVD) A Pew Research Poll found that 81% of respondents rated the economy as “very important” to their vote, ranking as the top issue.

“The cost of food, the cost of going out to eat, all those aspects that you do everyday, (when) you pull up to the fuel pump,” said Ronnie Casey.

“Just the cost of food. My daughter actually came home two days ago with two small bags. Small bags. They weren’t even full from the supermarket. And she said $75 in groceries. Two small bags. And I can’t wrap my head around that,” added Jacqueline Falacara.

Vote Kamala and you get more of this.

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