ANALYSIS — North Carolina has not voted for a Democratic presidential ticket since doing so — narrowly — in 2008. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris sent their clearest signal yet Tuesday they will make a push to change that.
Then-Sen. Barack Obama took the Tar Heel State 16 years ago by about 14,000 votes. North Carolinians then went for Republicans Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Polls show Trump leading there just over seven months from Election Day.
But a Morning Consult-Bloomberg poll of registered voters in a handful of swing states showed Biden gaining ground since his March 7 State of the Union address. After trailing in North Carolina by nearly double-digits a few weeks ago, that survey put him within 6 percentage points of Trump.