Will North Carolina Pick The President?
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Winning North Carolina would make Kamala Harris’s path to the White House much easier. And to judge from the huge campaign push, Democrats think the state is in play. Can a strong ground game—and a major Republican scandal—sink Donald Trump’s re-election bid?
Guest: Michael Bitzer, professor of politics and history at Catawba College
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| 1:05.7 | All right, back to the news. So Michael, can I read you a headline I saw this morning? |
| 1:18.0 | Sure. |
| 1:20.0 | Yesterday, I got on the line with Professor Michael Bitzer. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay, this is from New York magazine, and it reads, |
| 1:28.0 | How Kamala knocks out Trump. |
| 1:31.0 | Do you want to venture a guess about how this article says she's going to do that? |
| 1:36.0 | Well, if it's a state-based strategy in terms of electoral votes... |
| 1:42.0 | Oh, it's much more specific than that. |
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