Democrats are vying for the support of rural voters in North Carolina
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
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As early voting continues across the state, canvassing groups are working to turn out voters — including in Nash County, a purple county President Biden won in 2020 and former President Trump won in 2016, both by razor-thin margins.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm in Nash County, North Carolina, where Alex Cook, a Don Bermuda's Bay and other |
| 0:07.8 | door knockers have spotted a registered voter. A voter getting into his black SUV |
| 0:12.3 | to drive away, sure sure but a voter nonetheless they spring into action. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, how you do it? |
| 0:18.0 | Five minutes of your time. |
| 0:21.0 | It'll be worth it. That voter, Jekai Britain, says no, he's got to run. He's off to the airport. |
| 0:28.1 | But to this organizing team, the stakes for 2024 and in this state especially are too high to let Britain go just yet. |
| 0:35.8 | Three minutes. |
| 0:37.8 | It's important this thing is likely. |
| 0:41.6 | Two minutes. Yay, we got it, we got. And they're in. Britain, who is registered as a non-affiliated voter says he's not |
| 0:50.9 | planning on casting a ballot this year. |
| 0:53.0 | Cook, from the organizing group down home North Carolina, starts peppering him with questions |
| 0:58.2 | about the issues he's facing in his life. |
| 1:00.7 | You need health care that right? |
| 1:05.0 | You get SSI, so you need your health care. Yes. |
| 1:06.0 | Yes. |
| 1:07.0 | So do we have a vote for you? |
| 1:10.0 | All right. |
| 1:11.0 | Let me give you some of this literature, sir. |
| 1:13.4 | From driving away to a conversation, from a no on voting to a maybe, all in the span of just a couple |
| 1:20.6 | minutes. |
| 1:21.6 | Do you think he was just being polite to end the conversation or do you think that's a vote? |
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