It Really Does Feel Close in North Carolina

The Run-Up by The New York Times

Oct 24, 202400:52:42News & Politics

Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the electoral battlegrounds this year. Come election night, it will be one of the first of the closely fought states where the polls wil...

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