Vice President Kamla Harris narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in the swing state of North Carolina, according to three different polling averages.
2024 North Carolina Governor -- Robinson vs. Stein
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 7/19 - 8/21 Stein +8.7
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Interesting thing about those polls is the trend.
On the link above, if you scroll down a bit, you can see the following... [excerpted]
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High Point University 5/2 - 5/9 Robinson +5
High Point/SurveyUSA 8/19 - 8/21 Stein +14
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That's definitely not a good trend for Lt Gov Robinson.
OK, I just took a quick spin through my search engine of choice, asking about NC poltics.
This bubbled up to the surface...
More questions for Robinson. Store says reported campaign purchases never happened.
carolinapublicpress.org
... During Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's 2020 campaign, he claimed to spend $2,374 at Lake Outfitters for "campaign clothes and accessories." The five transactions, recorded on his campaign finance expenditure reports with the State Board of Elections, spanned eight months.
The owners of Lake Gaston Outfitters, located at the recorded address, say those purchases never happened.
"If you actually look at the credit card statements, it's not our business, so it was just incorrectly attributed to our business," Owner Dave Blodgett told Carolina Public Press. "We sell kayaks. ... We wouldn't have anything here in our store that he would want."
The five Lake Gaston Outfitters transactions are part of a larger investigation into Robinson's 2020 campaign for lieutenant governor. The campaign finance investigation, involving an alleged $500,000 in violations, remains ongoing three and a half years after the initial complaint by Bob Hall, campaign finance watchdog and former editor of Democracy NC. ...
@#11 ... NC is more purple than blue at this juncture. ...
North Carolina looks to have been quite red in Presidential elecitons.
Politics of North Carolina
en.wikipedia.org
... Like most U.S. states, North Carolina is politically dominated by the Democratic and Republican political parties. North Carolina has 14 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and two seats in the U.S. Senate.
North Carolina has voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential election since 1980; the one exception was in 2008, when a plurality of North Carolinians voted for Barack Obama. ...
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