The Last Reason for a Black Woman: The Implications of the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Abortion Rights

There is a final factor, but it is not one that Harris is campaigning on directly. “To be honest with you,” said Deja Boston, “it’s just historical for me as a Black woman.”

Inflation has leveled out over the past year, but the topic remains raw, and politically potent, for conservatives. Derek Nipper, who was working the state Republican Party’s booth, said for him, the election is about “my wallet. I remember when Trump first took office, I was able to put up not a lot, but maybe $200 a paycheck. Now, he said, “I’m struggling to make it to payday with money in my pocket.”

Many Republicans see the race differently — even Dr. Bill Pincus, who was manning North Carolina Right To Life has a booth at the fair. Pincus spoke passionately about how he believes life begins at conception, and that to him, opposing abortion rights is about protecting life. He said the economy when he was asked what the election was about. Prices have gone up so much, that he thinks everyone is hurting.

The North Carolina legislature passed a 12-week abortion ban in the wake of the Dobbs decision. It’s a major theme of Democratic campaign ads, and Harris is campaigning on signing a federal law restoring protections previously granted by Roe V. Wade.

“Don’t make me start crying over the abortion thing. Lew said that it tears his heart out. “Because if a 12-year-old, 13-year-old, 16-year-old — if they’re impregnated,” she said, trailing off. I need the right to make that decision.

Like many Democrats, Debbie Lew said it came down to reproductive rights and the ongoing fallout in state legislatures across the country from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe V. Wade.

The 2016 North Carolina Primary: The Case for a New Governor? The Case Against Donald Trump’s Flavor Defiant Fist Pump

North Carolina has landed on the Republican side of the ledger in presidential elections for much of the last five decades. This year the state is too close to call.

North Carolina crashed the swing state party in 2024, especially after Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential ticket.

All along, political observers had expected six states to decide whether or not former President Donald Trump would return to the White House: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.

But North Carolina was the state Trump won by the smallest margin in 2020, and as this year’s presidential contest has entered its final stretch, both parties are pouring resources, time and energy into the Tarheel State. The race in North Carolina is close.

It was remarkable that we were so focused on the election in North Carolina. Every commercial break on every show is full, and start to end with campaign ads. Pre-roll ads are popping up on social media feeds and on websites before the show begins.

Vendors were selling t-shirts featuring Trump’s defiant fist pump with the caption “You Missed!” at the fair. A beef jerky stand converted its tip jar to a straw poll and featured images of Harris and Trump in one cup. The unscientific poll had Trump leading by $12-to-$0

The state’s Republican lieutenant governor, who’s running for governor, is playing a starring role in many of the ads blanketing North Carolina. Not necessarily his own campaign’s ads, but rather, Democratic attack ads trying to link Republicans up and down the ballot to Robinson’s controversial statements and policy stances, especially his strict opposition to abortion rights.

The Trump campaign and other Republicans have distanced themselves from Robinson, especially in the wake of a CNN report Robinson denies that ties him to racist and offensive comments made on a pornographic website. But he still has his supporters.

“He’s very vocal, he’s very opinionated,” said Faye New. Some of the things that he said were taken out of context. They do not tell you the whole thing. They just see one line and say “Hey, that sounds nasty, let’s put it in there.”

Faye New is an unabashed Republican hardliner. She is wearing a pink womenforrobINSON cap and a t-shirt with the words “I’m voting for the convicted felon” on it. (A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a criminal case earlier this year. He’s facing felony charges in three additional cases, as well.)

She’s quick with an answer on everything, except … the outcome of what’s shaping up to be an incredibly tight race in North Carolina. Both the Trump and Harris campaigns have spent millions of dollars in the state, and have returned week after week for campaign events. The state hasn’t voted Democrat on the presidential level since 2008 and polls show a near-deadlocked race. New admits that he dislikes it more than he likes it. “But you never know ‘til it’s all said and done.”

Later on, we come across Debbie and Lew Love, who are wearing homemade hats supporting Harris: they feature a blue comma, as in the punctuation, and a red cursive LA. They voted later that day, and probably don’t have a lot of opinions with New, except that they are anxious about the result. “My gut starts churning at 2 a.m., and I can’t get it off my mind,” Debbie Love said. I don’t think about it.

The 2016 Vice President’s Donald Trump vs. Harris: What Do You Want to Do? How Do You Hope to Bring Down the Cost of Living?

Trump said no one raised their hands and, later, said that one woman raised her hand. He joked — sharing shouted comments from rally-goers — that it could have been Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic House speaker, or “a woman who transitioned.”

He recounted asking a previous rally crowd about the remark: “Is there any woman that would be offended by the fact that I said ‘I am going to protect you as your president’?”

“What I do is very controversial. I don’t care. Trump said that he did the right thing. I want to protect women, men, and children. I would like to protect everybody.

At his rally in Gastonia, N.C., Trump said that any migrant who kills an American citizen or law enforcement officer should be put to death.

In a Saturday post on his platform Truth Social, Trump said that his opponent “is slumping to the finish line, yawning, shrieking, and cackling” calling Harris “a Low IQ individual.”

The campaign wants to reach people who might not have made up their mind about the candidates. “We are the last people that voters will hear from before they go vote, and that’s what we want to make sure we do,” said Jen O’Malley Dillon, Harris’ campaign chair.

The two-minute Harris campaign television ad will run during the Green Bay Packers versus Detroit Lions football game on Sunday with the focus on serving as a president for all Americans.

“At the top of my list is bringing down the cost of living for you,” Harris said at her Charlotte rally. “That will be my focus every day as president.”

In her final days on the trail, Vice President Harris plans to focus on the specific things she hopes to do to improve the lives of Americans from all walks of life, according to officials from her campaign.

Source: Trump and Harris make last-minute stops in North Carolina

The Trump-Petersburg Campaign: Highlights of the Progress Made During the 2016 Indirect Expenditure in Mecklenburg County

Trump won 52% of the vote in the counties designated by FEMA as qualifying for assistance under its updated disaster declaration, according to an NPR analysis. In the areas that were impacted by disaster, Trump won most of them, even though Mecklenburg County was a heavily Democratic county.

Both the Harris and Trump campaigns have invested considerably in the state — and the candidates are holding multiple events across the state on Saturday.

After a Saturday afternoon rally in Atlanta, Harris traveled to Charlotte for an event alongside North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and musicians Jon Bon Jovi and Khalid.

Since 1976, the Democratic presidential candidate had not won it when they were in office. Despite a lot of attention from his reelection campaign, Obama narrowly lost the state in 2012.

Trump carried the state by three percentage points in 2016 and a point and a half in 2020 — but changing demographics could boost Harris’ chances here.

In the last 20 years there have been rapid growth in the Research Triangle area, home to North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

But Republicans have a large advantage with white voters without college degrees, and have also focused on outreach in the parts of the state impacted heavily by Hurricane Helene, many of which were conservative communities.