The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
Democrats reliably win statewide in local races, but fail in presidential votes. Will this time be different?
DAVID JOHNSON fears his neighbour is a socialist. As a retiree he volunteers with his local Republican Party in Johnston County, a patch of North Carolina where pristine suburban streets yield to rambling country roads. The neighbour in question has put up a Black Lives Matter sign and Mr Johnson says she has accused him of being a white supremacist, which he denies. “She’s from Delaware,” he says. “Make of that what you will.”
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “North Carolina starts voting”
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