{"id":107231,"date":"2024-09-26T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107231"},"modified":"2024-09-26T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T06:43:03","slug":"harris-makes-scandal-plagued-republican-the-star-of-her-campaign-to-win-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107231","title":{"rendered":"Harris makes scandal-plagued Republican the star of her campaign to win North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 There\u2019s an unlikely star in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a><\/span> &#8216; push to win North Carolina: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/robinson\">Mark Robinson<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mark-robinson-north-carolina-governor-trump-e5f7e3740c518883eefd16fd04f8533d\">embattled Republican candidate for governor<\/a><\/span>, Robinson is featured in conversations this week with Harris volunteers and voters on the phone and at their doorways. Democrats wave signs warning of Trump-Robinson extremism at their press conferences. Billboard trucks circulate in key cities warning that Robinson, also the state\u2019s lieutenant governor, is \u201cunhinged.\u201d And Harris is running a new television advertising campaign highlighting <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a><\/span> history of lavishing Robinson with flowery praise.<\/p>\n<p>No Democrat has carried this Southern state since former President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/obama\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/span> in 2008, whose victory stands as the only Democratic win on the presidential level here in a half-century. But Trump held North Carolina by just 1.3 percentage points four years ago, and it is again emerging as one of the most competitive states in the final weeks before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are betting the weight of Robinson\u2019s extraordinary baggage can give Harris the edge she needs to make history. <\/p>\n<p>Both sides concede that a Harris victory in North Carolina would make Trump\u2019s path to the presidency dramatically more difficult. The Republican presidential nominee acknowledged the high stakes during a campaign stop on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won North Carolina twice, and we gotta win it one more time,\u201d Trump told a cheering audience at a Charlotte-area manufacturing plant. \u201cWe win North Carolina, we\u2019re going all the way.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2>Trump has stopped mentioning Robinson<\/h2>\n<p>Yet Trump made no mention of Robinson at the event as he introduced several VIPs, his second in-state snub of his hand-picked candidate for governor in the span of five days.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats aren\u2019t making it so easy for Trump to distance himself from the man he endorsed, granted a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention and described as \u201cone of the great leaders in our country\u201d and \u201cbetter than Martin Luther King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virtually every message that Harris\u2019 campaign delivered to North Carolina voters this week featured Robinson, who has been abandoned by many Republican officials \u2014 and his own <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-carolina-governor-mark-robinson-5fa5e739329bbabbc7cc0c9ed286ed23\">staff<\/a><\/span> \u2014 in the wake of a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/19\/politics\/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN report<\/a><\/span> that detailed explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website. The Republican Governors Association stopped running ads on his behalf this week, and Virginia Gov. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/glenn-youngkin\/\">Glenn Youngkin<\/a><\/span>, who serves on the RGA\u2019s executive committee, told the National Review on Wednesday that he would no longer be supporting Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump has refused so far to rescind his endorsement. That\u2019s even as Robinson, a regular presence during Trump\u2019s recent North Carolina appearances, has become he-who-must-not-be-named at recent events.<\/p>\n<p>Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley, a North Carolina native, skipped over Robinson as he ticked down a list of the state\u2019s most important elected officials during a campaign stop in Charlotte earlier in the week. <\/p>\n<p>The slight didn\u2019t go unnoticed. Two audience members shouted out Robinson\u2019s name during Whatley\u2019s remarks. The GOP chairman didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n<p>Both Trump and his running mate <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jd-vance\">JD Vance<\/a><\/span> ignored Robinson during their four combined North Carolina appearances since Saturday. Vance was forced to acknowledge his party\u2019s candidate for governor only when he took questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. AP's Role: The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat he said or didn\u2019t say is ultimately between him and the people of North Carolina,\u201d Vance said of Robinson. \u201cI\u2019ve seen some of the statements, I haven\u2019t seen them all. Some of them are pretty gross, to put it mildly.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Republicans are concerned about the scandal\u2019s fallout<\/h2>\n<p>Veteran North Carolina Republican operative Dallas Woodhouse said Robinson\u2019s potential impact on the election \u201cis concerning,\u201d although he predicted it would have a more serious chilling effect on down-ballot candidates for Congress and the state house, where the GOP is fighting to preserve a supermajority in both chambers. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some Democrats close to the Harris campaign fear that the Robinson scandal in the governor\u2019s race may not be enough to swing North Carolina\u2019s 16 electoral votes to the Democratic nominee. The state has been in the party\u2019s sights since Obama won here in 2008, but even Obama could not repeat his success in 2012. <\/p>\n<p>There is a sense, at least among some Harris insiders, that Georgia may be Harris\u2019 better opportunity in the South. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Democrats point to North Carolina\u2019s large suburban and college-educated population \u2014 demographics that are trending away from Trump \u2014 in addition to a growing Hispanic population and strong base of African Americans, who remain core groups in the Democratic coalition. <\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 team is hopeful that the continued Robinson fallout, and their intense focus on it during the election\u2019s final weeks, will give them a slight advantage \u2014 even if only by convincing some would-be Trump voters not to show up at the polls at all. They\u2019re also hoping to peel off some of the 250,000 voters who backed Trump\u2019s Republican rival Nikki Haley in the state\u2019s March primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is new now, is the attention on Robinson is higher,\u201d said Dan Kanninen, the battleground state director for the Harris campaign. \u201cThere\u2019s a greater public recognition that he\u2019s so far outside the mainstream, as is Donald Trump, that I think voters now have an opportunity to connect those dots in a way that could stick at a time when voters are starting to pay attention and make decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called North Carolina \u201can absolute dead-heat tossup.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2>Robinson\u2019s troubles don\u2019t dampen GOP enthusiasm for Trump<\/h2>\n<p>There were signs of concern about Robinson inside Charlotte\u2019s Freedom House Church during one of Vance\u2019s appearances this week, although no one said that the gubernatorial candidate\u2019s troubles would dissuade them from voting for Trump. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019m confident. It\u2019s close,\u201d Greg Mills, a Republican school board candidate in Cabarrus County, said of the presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>As a candidate for local office himself, Mills said he\u2019s still \u201cinclined to support\u201d Robinson because the gubernatorial candidate has denied the allegations. \u201cIf it\u2019s true, it\u2019s deeply troubling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mills said he has \u201cno reservations\u201d about supporting Trump, however. <\/p>\n<p>Sitting not far away in the packed church, Kathy Goodman, 74, of Harrisburg, said she\u2019s not sure whether she\u2019ll vote for Robinson this fall. But she insisted that Trump is \u201ctoo good\u201d to be weighed down by Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should not be held accountable for what Mark Robinson did,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cThey\u2019re two different individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Robinson, Democrats also boast a superior ground game with 27 campaign offices across the state staffed by more than 250 paid field staff and more than 26,000 volunteers \u2014 the vast majority of whom joined the campaign after Harris stepped in for President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign has allowed outside groups to handle the bulk of its on-the-ground voter outreach, while devoting much of its resources to \u201cvoter integrity\u201d monitoring once voting begins. <\/p>\n<p>At a Raleigh volunteer center earlier in the week, Democratic volunteer Nancy Watson, 43, spent her lunch break one day making phone calls to prospective Harris supporters. She said she spends almost every weekend canvassing for the campaign as well.<\/p>\n<p>Watson is hopeful that the Robinson scandal will ultimately help Harris, but reflecting on her recent conversations with voters, she said some people still aren\u2019t paying close attention. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know what motivates potential voters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Daughtry, a 66-year-old volunteer who has retired from careers in teaching and nursing, was making phone calls nearby. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad that he\u2019s still on the ticket. I hope he brings Trump down,\u201d Daughtry said of Robinson. \u201cIt\u2019s time for North Carolina to elect a Democratic president. 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