was that north carolina? is your regulars were neither formally sanctioned by the confederate government nor brought into the formal command structure. so what that meant was they did what they wanted and as a result, these men simply formed a guerrilla bands operating outside official military command and control. and they were guerrilla companies that happened to be confederate in loyalty. in effect, these bands created a problem for the richmond government. these became uncontrollable in no man's land region of the coast. the region back and forth between the confederate regular and the union regular army. during the war not responding command and control by the confederate military or the confederate government, preferring to wage their own private against local citizens. this is where the civil war really became uncivil. it was very personal. it was highly localized. it was neighbor against neighbor. it was you knew. it's as local you could get. and perhaps the most difficult irregular war to isolate for

what was going on north carolina?his does not make as much sense as the blue and gray did not make sense after visiting that prison. this is the target for george washington didn't break people out of salisbury prisons in the western piedmont county. destroying an important railroad bridge in the r town, that was also a goal. the initial phase of kirk's raid roughly 150 men stealthily marched across the mountains toward theor strategically important town of morganton, north carolina the western north carolina railroad had its mountain terminus. now kirk, i hope to capture a train and use an engineer he brought with him on the raid to steam towards salisbury to release the prisoners. and when he arrived at morganton kirkst attacks the conscript training camp name for north carolina's favorite son the work governor. was surprised the morning of 28 june. the small complement and north carolina junior reserves and conscripts offered minimal resistance to battle hardened kirkne raiders. kirk's men seized the camp, burn the

north carolina's unionists were deeply immersed in the mountains of western north carolina, piedmont and coastal unions did not. this was a border war propelled by east tennessee unionist and u.s. army troops. north carolina in its who fled to east tennessee joined the u.s. army in an effort to put down the confederacy and many of these unionists joined the second and third north carolina mounted infantry which operated in the appalachian border region against confederate troops. unionists were also targets of confederate who patrolled the border to protect federal -- fellow citizens from attacks by the u.s. army and one of the most prominent units involved william holland thomas's legion of cherokee indians which governor vance frequently send troops into north carolina for union army incursions into suppressed dissidents, two different counter irregular wars with two different solutions. in the violence of both forms of conflict touched the same mountain counties and different people and motivations were behind each one. u.s. army cross-border raids targeted operation meant to dest

so the sit in on february 1st, 1960 by for north carolina students in a woolworth's in north carolina sparked the sit in movement. soon thousands mostly students, followed suit and sit in demonstration as it began throughout the country. those are the students at the all female local historically black university, bennett college participated in the movement, including participating in gillian's right. so again, you only focus on the anc for right? you ignore all the other as soon as it participated in it, right? you also in the war, the women, the black women who were involved it anc and it been in college. right? who were essential to the successes of the movement in terms percentages bennett college even though it's a smaller it was a smaller institution the anc had more of a student body participated in the sit ins then anc right and so you won't kind know how these movements were successful if you don't take a step back and look at all who were involved right. these are hundreds and thousands participants. and if you only focus on the for and you only focus on that one day that t

a lot going on in north carolina. when you look at that race along with down-pal lot races and the importance of breaking the legislative supermajority, there's a lot going on at the statewide level. and we have the most extreme right-wing republican nominees. i'll compare our list to anybody in the state. mark robinson running for governor who says that men should lead, not women. that women aren't responsible enough to keep their skirts down. that's why they have abortions. called lgbtq community filth. things that he has said have been so awful. you also have an attorney general's race, we have jeff jackson, the democratic nominee, dan bishop is part of the marjorie taylor greene cabal in congress. it's been such -- he's been such an obstructionist. he's also the author of the infamous bathroom bill in north carolina when he was he was a state legislator and he is an election denier. and the race that's caught a lot of people attention, we elect the head of the public school, the superintendent of public instructio

north carolina has had democratic governors, north carolina had democratic senators, why is it so difficult to win the state when it is presidential election time ? >> very purple state, we have been very close every time. in 2020, this was joe biden and kamala harris' closest loss. i will tell you, i have that 2008 feeling like i had one barack obama won north carolina, the enthusiasm is through the roof. we have had 12,000 volunteers and 9500 of them have already worked a shift. things are happening on the ground. we know kamala harris is doing well and people are excited about her campaign. that is trickling down but we also have a bottom-up push to elect josh stein as governor and our democratic counsel state and democratic judges because republicans here have nominated the most extreme candidates in the country. combine that altogether, i think you have a winning formula here because if kamala harris wins north carolina, which i believe she will, she is the next president of the united states. donald trump is in panic mode. he is spending a lot of money here on ads, he just came to ash

obviously north carolina has had democratic governors, north carolina has had democratic senators. but why is it so difficult to win the state when it is presidential election time? >> we have been a very purple state, and we have been very close every time. in 2020, this was joe biden and, lane harris's closest loss, but i will tell you, jason, i have that 2008 feeling, like i had when barack obama won north carolina. enthusiasm is through the roof. we have had 12,000 volunteers and 9500 of them have already worked a shift things are happening on the ground. we know kamala harris is doing well and people are excited about her campaign, and that is trickling down, but we also have a bottom-up push to let josh stein as governor, and our democratic counselor state and democratic judges, because republicans here have nominated the vote most extreme candidates in the country. combine that altogether, i think you have a winning formula here, because if kamala harris wins north carolina, which i believe she will, she is the next president of the united states. donald trump is in panic mo

with a big rally kickoff, winning north carolina, i've got that 2008 field, we won north carolina forng to really get to work here. >> governor i appreciate your first point about being out of the country or out of the state and what that means. we have a similar provision in maryland, i was always inviting the governor to take a trip, so he could go anywhere he wanted to. now is the time to explore america and the world, i've got you back here. >> i was going to ask you about that, michael, i was and i decided i was not going to because i wasn't going to put you on the spot but now that you brought it up. >> but how unusual, i think it's an important point though, because michael, were you holding press conferences -- >> no, i was doing the work that the governor allowed me to do because in maryland, as is probably in other states, north carolina, he's elected separately but we serve at the pleasure of the governor. so you have your assignments, you have the things you are responsible for and you don't go rogue on the leadership but because you have the situation in your state like i

people who don't come from north carolina or haven't moved to north carolina, there are still 12 left need to understand the north carolina is tricky, you've got a democratic governor, a democratic attorney general, you can successfully elect democrats to statewide positions, but you're so gerrymandered that your state legislature is a veto-proof majority of republicans. >> yeah, and thank you for having us. you laid it out pretty fairly for everybody to be able to tell, north carolina democrats have had a successful track record in winning the governor seat and also down ballot races on our council of state like our attorney general's office. we won seven out of eight governors races in north carolina the last eight out of eight attorney general's race is in north carolina, but to your point, democrats lost the supreme court in 2022 in our state, the republican supreme court come in and actually forgot that they existed and go back on a previous court decision that said that racial and partisan gerrymandering was legal again in the state, and gerrymandered north carolina even out of

in north carolina back then. and everything is coming to gather, to turn north carolina blue. a lot of excitement, haven't felt this much excitement since the 2,008 race. >> you talk about young voters, protesters not too far from here protesting the biden administration's support for jim and netanyahu and the war in gaza. how is that issue resonating with the young voters in north carolina? is that something harris and walz need to visit? or is it not as big a deal? >> it is a big deal. the loss of life is tragic. we know these terrorist attacks initiated by hamas against peaceful communities and so many innocent lives lost in response. what is happening, biden/harris is working toward a peace deal. we need to keep working on that politically. i don't know, it is important to note that you don't want somebody who closes up to dictators like donald trump making decisions about iran, making decisions that likely will not be in the best interests of our country. >> the coalition in north carolina for years democrats talk about the obama correlation which led to 2008 to north car

what are you seeing there in north carolina?might be able to see over my shoulder. this is just one of the homes that was hit by what we presume to be one of these tropical tornados that happened overnight. you can basically see that is the second floor of that home as has collapsed on top of the first floor. the reason we're here is because search and rescue was looking for a man they believed was inside, i regret to let everyone know they it not find him alive. these tornados have already proven to be deadly. it's important to remind everyone at home, we talk about how slow this tropical storm system is, moving at a crawl of anywhere between 5 to 10 miles per hour. at last check it was 7 miles per hour, but this is a reminder of just how dangerous this storm system can still be. overnight, tropical storm debby soaking the east coast as the slow-moving system makes a second landfall overnight in south carolina. >> this was flooded. there was about -- i mean, the pool was overflowed. >> 19 million people are under flood alerts f

politics in north carolina. he was referring to this man, the sitting lieutenant governor, mark robinson, who is currently running to replace the popular, term limited democratic governor roy cooper. a few years -- hours ago robinson spoke at the same rally. while on its face it is not remarkable that a republican candidate for statewide office would speak at a trump rally, mark robinson is no ordinary gubernatorial nominee. he has the embodiment of what you might politely call the republican party candidate quality problem. the kind of extreme voice who the maga era has ushered into mainstream republican politics. extreme statements that would be disqualifying in just about any era of politics i've covered, but which are now a feature rather than a bug and republican candidates. there is a long list of these folks like roy moore, who lost to a democrat following allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls. or pennsylvania's gubernatorial nominee in 2022, who likes to dress up as a confederate soldier an

state of north carolina. vice president harris and tim walz will speak in raleigh this friday after their visit last week was delayed by tropical storm debby. just this afternoon, donald trump was in the state rallying potential voters in ashville. >> and they are doing an incredible job. and also, your north carolina gop chairman jason simmons. jason? you doing okay? we are doing good jason? got to make sure everyone gets. we have had tremendous experience here. we won every time we are in. >> now this was trump's first rally in a battleground state in weeks and he chose north carolina deliberately. because of the anti-democratic incentives of the electoral college, only a handful of states will actually decide this presidential election. the same way every four years. there are of course the so- called blue wall states of pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin with trump flipped in 2016 and lost in 2020. the swing states of georgia, arizona, and nevada all of which trump lost in 2020 as well. this cycle it s

north carolina is a state. think that has a slight republican lean like you said, it is only the democrats have only one at one time for the presidency since 19 1976 the key for the democrats will be they have to turn out their voters at a greater number than republicans. >> just because like i said, there is a slight republican lean in the state it's something they haven't done since barak obama in 2008, that same energy hasn't been there. >> but like i said earlier, you can now feel this excitement that just didn't exist back in the spring turn turnout is the key for you. >> you don't think it be convincing those undecided voters, are there any sort of issue? susan, that are key there in the state that might sway those undecided from one camp to the other well, we talked about turnout. >> i'm in charlotte, north carolina, the state's largest city it has the most democratic voters of really any city in north carolina. it's crucial to kamala harris is hopes in recent election charlotte has been really lagging i

she's chair of the north carolina democratic party. she's also only 26 years old, which makes her youngest chair of any state political party in the whole country. she joins us now. ms. clayton, thanks very much for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> i'm looking at this through an admittedly reductive lens about who's at the top of it ticket in the ballot oip your state. are there nuances and angles here i ought to be noticing or that should give people a different impression about how things should be fought in your state? >> no, i think you laid out the case against mark robinson just fine, but i also think the extremism at the top of the ticket is one we're finding that runs straight down the ballot as well. north carolina is one of 11 states in the entire country that elect a council of states or our executive branch is not just the governor's office but it is also nine other position. our attorney general we have, congressman jeff jackson running against dan bishop, who's the augtd fr of the bathroom bill in north carolina

north carolina is a purple state. dense urban areas and then you have in between large tracts of this state which are very heavily populated with publan supporting voters. donald trump won here in the past two elections by the tiniest margins. that is something both campaigns are hoping to capitalize on. supporters feel there is only one winner in november and that is going to be donald trump. >> i'm 22 years old and one day i want to be able to buy a house and raise a world in a house that is not crazy. >> hopefully some new policy stuff about the tax rate or just creating jobs. creating more manufacturing in this country to where people can actually have the american dream and get interest rates down to where people can go out and buy a house. >> growing up in such a hard political time, regardless of what side you are has been frowned upon in the media in general. >> i don't think we are going to go anywhe. i think our country is going to be in trouble. [applause] >> what we are seeing here today something of a res

carolina. former president trump returned to the stump this afternoon in asheville, and cbs's caitlin huey-burns was there. >> reporter: with paul's tightening, donald trump is trying to capitalize on what he considers one of his strengths: the economy. >> nobody -- you never had it so good. now you are not doing so well. we have the strongest economy in history. >> reporter: in an effort to tie his new opponent, kamala harris, to current economic conditions, his campaign coined a new term: kamalanomics. >> if harris wins this election, the result will be a kamala economic crash. >> reporter: in a speech in battleground north carolina, the former president focused on his proposals to eliminate federal taxes on social security and on tips, a plan he says harris is copying. >> and we will do something else which was copied, i mean viciously, ruthlessly copied! no tax on tips. okay? you know, if they wanted to do that, why didn't they do it three and a half years ago? >> reporter: last week, harri

carolina and now becoming bullish in north carolina and now having to be on defense in north carolina, it says everything about the kamala momentum we are starting to see, when you see 60,000 republicans on a call organizing organically on her behalf, when you see their rallies and the crowd size and the money being raised. you see untraditional partners say that we care about democracy and freedom and obviously without her giving a sitdown interview, which she said she will, voters are starting to lean in and galvanize around her from what she is saying directly to the american people, that is more important sitting down for an interview that the chattering class suggests need to happen. >> shannon: i think average americans and want to hear that because she has positions on tape in 2019 as part of the 2020 campaign that now it is not even her coming out to say these are not my positions, it is coming from campaign staffers and other people. there needs to be some kind of explanation from her. there has been an evolution on these issues, if she has changed, that is important. before

i'm talking about north carolina and pennsylvania right now. the jump when numbers in both states happening right after joe biden ended his reelection bid. this is according to the new york times, which did analysis is registrations. and it was the first time all year that democrats outnumber gop new registrations in the state of north carolina it's could all this help kamala harris change the map and win north carolina for the first time in four decades, jeff zeleny is there for our voters outfront series it's great to be back at this beautiful state. donald trump's back in north carolina. a sure sign. it's a battleground. once again lines of trump admirers stretched on the block in downtown asheville, a deeply enclave in a deep red swath of the state. >> i miss. >> you, miss him. >> i miss them, yes. the past four years? yes. >> democrats worried north carolina was slipping out of reach. but all that's changed with kamala harris at the top of it. ticket is now a campaign. >> yeah, people are excited. >> david bailey has been making calls at d

two days ago, donald trump was here in north carolina.said he was going to talk about the economy. i think you all watch, you know what i'm about to say. but he offered no serious plans to reduce costs for middle class families. no plans to expand access to housing or health care. and that actually, i think for most of us, was not surprising. because we all know his plans. we know the project 2025 agenda. so there's a choice in this election. donald trump's plans to devastate the middle class, punish working people and make the cost of living go up for millions of americans, and on the other hand, when i'm elected president, what we'll do -- [ cheers and applause ] -- what we will do to bring down costs, increase the security and stability financially of your family and expand opportunity for working and middle class americans. so now is the time to chart a new way forward. now is the time to chart a new way forward, to build. >> [ chanting new way forward ] to build an america where everyone's work is rewarded and talents are valued. whe

but north carolina has been close.s been a couple of points, take a look at 2016, donald trump carried the state by 3 1/2 points. you can see democrats erased more than half of that trump margin from 2016 in 2020. brought it down to a 75,000 vote difference between trump and biden in 2020. so, you know, we're talking about not huge changes needed here for democrats to actually flip the state, and so what democrats are looking at here, take it from their perspective first is sort of a tension in north carolina between different parts of the state geographically, and we see this nationally, too. democrats, where they draw hope from are cities and metropolitan areas, suburbs, densely populate suburbs with college degrees. this is wait county, the research triangle, chapel hill, durham in this area too. metro lineup, charlotte, that area, even out in the mountains, asheville, those are some of the areas demographically that are rich for democrats and trending in that direction. i'll give you an example, look at wake county

carolina they have to keep north carolina. they are looking at to winning it is pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina and they were like north carolina is the safest because we won that previously and now this is becoming iffy for them. they will not publicly admit t. i talked to a number of strategists. and connected to the state. they are very, very concerned. >> it does not help. does not help that they have a madman in the state of north carolina that will not be helpful. they don't seem like they like him >> you say they like him. they don't like him. just tell him how to order a do nut. say get sprinkles. coming up, arlington national ceremony the army confirmed that a trump aid pushed aside a female arlington national cemetery employee. you can not make it up. more on that next more on that next why do couples choose a sleep number smart bed? i need help with her snoring. sleep number does that. thank you. during our biggest sale of the year, save 50% on the sleep number® limited edition smart bed and free delivery when

people who don't come from north carolina or have not moved to north carolina and there are 12 of uscessfully elect democrats to position statewide but you're so gerrymandered that it's a vetoproof for republicans. >> yes. i think you lay it out pretty fairly and north carolina democrats have had a successful track record and getting the governor seat and also on -- down ballot races. we won the last seven out of eight races in the last eight out of eight attorney general's races but to your point we saw and democrats lost the supreme court in 2022 the republicans came in and forgot and went back on a previous work decision that said this was legal again in the state and gerrymandering north carolina even out of this area equally split on the map taking us this year to a potential tenant three and then in that district what will happen in eastern north carolina. >> your governor at the time when you went into a super majority, kept insisting because he had vetoed abortion restrictions in your state and he said it takes one person to do the right thing and one person needed to do that

look at what has changed population-wise in north carolina. four years, independent voters. now there are 2.7 million. that was 2.3 million four years ago. so 400,000 potentially new voters, just independents about 1 million potentially overall. so look, it is a different landscape. it's a different electorate. we also talked to a republican voter who moved down in north carolina from long island. so she sort of reminded us that not all new voters or young democratic voters then the cities of charlotte and raleigh. the fast-growing suburbs, are just a really a fertile territory for the harris campaign. so she's giving her economic message in raleigh for a reason so it is in play. there's no doubt in for all the talk of the blue wall states, which obviously are important, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, north carolina's 16 electoral votes also fit in the equation. it's an insurance policy for more light trucks race and now she is well known, maybe more like georgia and arizona when it comes to changing demographics. yeah you mentioned what h

she is the chair of the north carolina democratic party. so glad to have you on tonight i want to get a sense of what's happening here. you saw jeff's report you know, of what's happening in your state just to you are youngest state party leader in the entire country and i think that's important to note. and obviously, you've been doing this for quite some time. so what are you seeing in terms of new registrations among young people under 30 in your state. and i'll know you obviously are 26 well, aaron, thank you so much for having us. we appreciate the opportunity north carolina democrats are fired up right now, and i think that i was not necessarily to your point, i'm the youngest state party chair, so i was not around to see the 08 era of political organizing for the democratic party. but what i know that i've been told from folks across the state is that this feels like the 2008 energy that had democrats winning at the presidential level for us then, and also what we're saying from young people is that this is to become our first histor

democratics have not one in north carolina in 16 years.eral, do you have the 2008 feeling? >> i am very excited about what is going on. i have traveled the state, obviously, from the mountains to the beach, regularly. there is a change in the energy, the excitement and the enthusiasm, you can absolutely feel it. that is what governor cooper is talking about. even though north carolina has not gone to a democratic candidate since 2008, we were the state that was most narrowly red in 2012 and 2020. i just find that to be a small percentage. we are always in the game. with the excitement we are feeling here, the fact that the choice is so clear that the stakes are so high, both in my race for governor and at the national level, they are two competing visions. ours is positive and forward- looking, the vision of my opponent is one of division, violence and hate. he says awful things about people. he told teachers women are not called to lead. he, from a church pulpit, about a month ago, said some folks need killing. he wants to cut money for s

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expect a heavy focus on north carolina for him.ave more culturally like south carolina or like alabama, when it's trended more towards democrats, at least demographically in recent years. democrat fighting the demographic shift of north carolina. again, a state that has been republican in national elections since 2008 when obama won. >> do you expect you will see the lieutenant governor with him? >> reporter: it's a great question. we have asked the campaign and the republican governor's association for information. this is a state that has had democratic governors. has one even now despite the fact that it's in the republican column for presidential races. being able to tailgate off donald trump would be helpful to the lieutenant governor here. no confirmation yesterday on whether he will be here or speaking. >> garrett haake, we will be watching. thank you. >>> joining us now is brendan buck, former senior advisor to house speakers boehner and ryan. last night haley had blunt words for the trump campaign on fox. the way it's been

north carolina is a purple state. dense urban areas and then you have in between large tracts of this state which are very heavily populated with republican supporting voters. donald trump won here in the past two elections by the tiniest margins. that is something both campaigns are hoping to capitalize on. supporters feel there is only one winner in november and that is going to be donald trump. >> i'm 22 years old and one day i want to be able to buy a house and raise a world in a house that is not crazy. >> hopefully some new policy stuff about the tax rate or just creating jobs. creating more manufacturing in this country to where people can actually have the american dream and get interest rates down to where people can go out and buy a house. >> growing up in such a hard political time, regardless of what side you are on has been frowned upon in the media in general. >> i don't think we are going to go anywhere. i think our country is going to be in trouble. [applause] >> what we are seeing here today is someth

it is feeling a lot like 2008 in north carolina. then i voted for a democrat for president in 16 years, but governor cooper believes his state will make history again and elect vice president kamala harris.>> we have that 2008 feeling. we in north carolina know what that means because that is the last time we voted for a democratic nominee for president, barack obama. it is time for north carolina to make history again. >> democrats are not just trusting enthusiasm. they are building an infrastructure to turn out the vote this fall. according to the new york times that his campaign has over 20 offices across neural airline. five more said to open soon. 1/170 paid staff members compared with roughly a dozen offices for mr. trump. since mr. biden dropped out the harris campaign says more than 12,000 carolinians have signed up to volunteer. and the number of registered democrats is increase from mr. biden was on the ticket. kamala harris has been to north carolina 16 times since becoming vice president. to date it is where she unveiled

are not ahead in north carolina, but good to make north carolina competitive. those voters, you're talking about wolf back to the democratic tent with enthusiasm. and she's got republicans running scared all the while. she's competing like she continues to be the underdog because she knows the race is going to be close. but if donald trump doesn't retool and there's some question as to whether he can he will just continue to unravel and become unhinged, which i think is the source of his problems day today at that we're seeing right now, wolf, if i could say quickly yes, sir very effective on the stump. >> go ahead. >> kamala harris has been very effective on the stump. she's done very well. what she hasn't done and what she needs to do to be a good candidate and showed that she really is strong, is sit down with you or sit out with dana bash and take real questions. we haven't gotten any questions yet. have harassed questions yet to determine how she going to react to those voters need to see that before they make those decisions she has certainly energized th

i see north carolina in play.ay in very much a way that those states were not necessarily going to be carried by democrats under president biden. >> and so just wondering. the issue will be clearly, you know, you talk whether it's a washout one or the other or one stronger than the other. there's going to be a lot to count on turnout and enthusiasm. i think this is a new race as of just over a month ago for the possibility of a different turnout come the 5th of november? >> there's no doubt about it. 's listen, kamala harris for better or worse i think for better will get a lot of voters simply not going to participate under a biden candidacy. we saw that last week with the dnc and i think it's also important to remember that the shortened, compressed timeline could actually work in the vice president's favor, because you can keep folks' attention for about 90 days. 70 days left now, of course, in a way you simply couldn't over the course of 18 months drawing down to the end. you'll see a lot more increased partic

well, north carolina is one of the _ speaking. well, north carolina is one of the seven _ speaking.aking. well, north carolina is i one of the seven battleground states that both campaigns agree are the ones they have to win. they have to win the majority of, at least, to take control of the presidency in this november's collection. north carolina, donald trump has wanted in the past few cycles but in 2020 of the past few cycles but in 2020 of the states he won, he won here by the states he won, he won here by the narrowest of margins, just i.3%. the narrowest of margins, just 1.3%. 16, 17,000 the narrowest of margins, just 1.3%. 16,17,000 voters. the narrowest of margins, just 1.3%. 16, 17,000 voters. that gives you an idea ofjust how tight this state is, it's one of those states in america that has very densely populated urban centres which are about heavy democratic such as where we are in asheville at the moment, then large rural areas of the state which tend to lean heavily at republicans so you get this swing situation within the state and that's why both campaigners like to t

it is feeling a lot like 2008 in north carolina. governor cooper believes his state will make history again and select vice president kamala harris. >> the have that 2008 feeling. we in north carolina know what that means because that is the last time we voted for a democratic nominee for president, barack obama. it is time for north carolina to make history again. >> democrats are not just trusting enthusiasm. they are building an infrastructure to turn out the vote this fall. the harris campaign has more than 20 offices across north carolina. five more set to open soon. over 170 paid staff members, compared with roughly a dozen offices for mr. trump. since mr. biden dropped out the harris campaign says more than 12,000 trimmings have signed up to volunteer in the number of registered democrats increased from when mr. biden was on the ticket. kamala harris has been to north carolina 16 times since becoming vice president. today is when she involved in affordability agenda in her first major policy speech. >> a loaf of bread cost 50

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carolina and people talk about these races that affect pocket but is and north carolina has had overssioner that has allowed for that to happen and has taken insurance money this year while he has been in the commissioner's office and hasn't actually been working for the people in north carolina and we do have a state senator and natasha marcus is running against him and she is not taking a dime of insurance money from corporations because she wants to make sure the people know who she represents of those are folks who would have let anybody in the ballot and not if you just have this behind your name but trying to keep everybody. >> anderson clayton is the chair the democratic party north carolina. the eyes are on you across the country every time i speak about you and what is happening in your state and you are a great communicator on behalf of your party. i look forward to seeing what is next for you. inc. you so much. >> we will be right back. stay with us. smart bed is only $999. plus get free delivery when you add any base. hi, i'm ron reagan, an unabashed atheist. and i'm alar

in north carolina. you know the way this electoral map is. if we win north carolina for harris, she is the next president of the united states. that's why we're so excited here. >> and i know you're term limited. what about a senate race in '26? >> all my options are on the table. as we say on the farm in north carolina, i want to plow to the end of the row. a lot of work to do these next five months as governor. particularly implementing these generational investments they've gotten us for high speed internet, roads and bridges and healthcare. i want to make sure we elect democrats in north carolina in our governor's race. we have the most important governor's race in the country with josh stein. win for harris. after that, i'll see. there's a lot of things that i can do. i like public service. i hope to continue doing that in some way. >> hope you come back and visit us. thank you very much, governor roy cooper. appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> the breaking news on wall street. terrible day for the marke

ten of the last 11 presidential elections in north carolina. think harris is going to win your state this time? >> well, it's clear that the trump campaign is worried about north carolina as during august, they had spent more here on advertising than any other swing state donald trump knows that he has to win north carolina and if kamala harris wins north carolina, she is the next president of the united states. but north carolina is growing with third fastest growing state the country a lot of people are moving to our more urban bluer counties. younger people are coming here this was the biden-harris campaigns closest loss in 2020 only 1.3% and when you look at the last time a democrat did win north carolina guess who it was barak obama history was made here. >> a lot of people want to make history again here in north carolina, we had about 1,300 volunteers last weekend, wolf, 57% of them were first-time volunteers. >> the energy is real, that determination is real. it's not just the convention. it's all over the country i don't know if you he

it cost north carolina over $3 billion.ntendent of schools who called for public execution of barack obama to be publicly televised. she belongs nowhere near our classrooms right now, and green made the case that children and public schools matter more than anything. it's not just donald trump and mark robinson, the extreme runs throughout, down to the state legislative races that fully endorsed what robinson stands for. not one republican in our state separated themselves from him this year. >> i was going to ask about that dynamic, sometimes the extremism you get opens up the opportunity for the nonextremist party, in this case, the democrats, to win crossover voters and target a different audience than in a typical election, not just independents but republicans to cross over and vote for the more sane ticket. how are you allocating resources and thinking about the type of messaging, events and spending you're doing in your party to maximize persuadable voters? >> we have a campaign reaching people across the state. we'v

voters in north carolina start voting 23 days from today on early ballots. so people are starting to make up their mind and have proof how closest status you have trump there today, and you have harris there on friday, north carolina is definitely in play certainly as a jeff zeleny, nikki haley was on fox last night and had this advice for trump, listen and watch. >> the campaign is not going to win. talking about crowd sizes, it's not going to win talking about what race kamala harris it's not going to win talking about whether she's dumb. it's not you can't win on those things. the american people are smart, treat them like they're smart. what they like about calm law is that she's being harmful. she's talking about freedom. she's talking about a way forward. they don't want a former president talking about the past so it's very interesting, it doesn't seem like he was listening, does it? because let me play another clip of how he was talking about this for nearly four years, camila has grabbed as the american academy has burned, what happened to her laugh

two days ago, donald trump was here in north carolina. he said he was going to talk about the economy. i think you all watched. you know what i'm about to say. but he offered no serious plan to reduce costs for middle-class families. no plan to expand access to housing or health care. and that actually i think for most of us was not surprising. because we already know his plans. we know the project 2025 agenda. so there's a choice in this election. donald trump plans to devastate the middle-class, punish working people and make the cost of living up for millions of americans. and on the other hand, when i'm elected president, what we will do what we will do to bring down costs, increased security and stability financially of your family and expand opportunities for working and middle-class americans. now is the time to chart a new way forward. now is the time to chart a new way forward. yes. a new way forward. to build an america where everyone's work is rewarded and talents are valued. where we work with labor and business to strengthen

north carolina, obama won north carolina as joe mentioned, it was supposed to be the southern state that went democratic first and georgia leapfrog it had largely because trump basically turned off much of the suburbs in and around atlanta. georgia flips. north carolina has kind of been the stubborn, annoying little state, pretty big state democrats have tried to get and again. it's been fool's gold. part of the reason is just hasn't had that same type of conversion that georgia did, but for, you know, the past couple of months, the biden people and now the harris people have looked at it and said we have a real chance of flipping this. i think the fact that trump is showing up there today is a real sign that they are nervous about the state. i think joe hit it on the yet, the fact that mark robinson is on the head of the gubernatorial ticket for republicans, really a radical figure all things considered relative to other gubernatorial candidates on the republican side this, could be the state that kind of under the radar harris could flip which makes her path to getting to 270 a lot eas