North Carolina Democrats find electoral success further down the ballot and hope to build on it

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Source: AP

Updated 8:12 AM EST, November 17, 2024


RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election, but scored significant downballot victories, giving them hope as they look to the future.

Despite Donald Trump’s more than 3-percentage point win over Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina, Democrats celebrated Election Day victories in races for governor, attorney general and the legislature in a closely divided state where conservatives have recently dominated the General Assembly and the courts.

In an election with few bright spots for Democrats nationally, the ticket-splitting tendencies of Tar Heel state voters offered some of that good news. “I think we had quality candidates running for office against right-wing extremists, and the people of North Carolina made the right choices,” said Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, a Harris surrogate who was once considered her potential running mate, of the downballot races.

Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, easily defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to succeed Cooper, who was ineligible to run again because of term limits. The campaign was dominated by Stein’s fundraising prowess and by ads and social media targeting Robinson’s history of inflammatory statements on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

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[Deminpenn]

1. Just goes to show voters

soundly reject Trump's ideas when those ideas are campaigned on by somebody else.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. ❤️

[Cha]

3. So Happy for Dem North Carolinians like

you and my Sister and her Family in Asheville.

💙

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Thanks, Cha! ...

A lot of us worked our butts off. So, it's nice to have something to show for it. Especially, now that we can block the veto overrides we might actually get stuff done.

❤️

[Cha]

5. Wow.. I had no idea... That's Brilliant &

a Huge Mahalo to you & your fellow Activists in NC!

What exactly does that mean.. "you can Block the Veto Overrides"?

💙

[littlemissmartypants]

6. We broke the Republican majority.

With our Democratic Party governors and the Republican majority any law they passed could be vetoed by the governor but then they could override the veto. So we have a bunch of bad laws passed by Republicans.

Now they won't be able to override the governor veto! Yay!!

❤️

[Cha]

7. Sooo YAY!! I'll be explaining that

to my sister. She's a retired Teacher from New York and her daughter is a teacher in Asheville. And worried about the Dept of Education being Deleted.

I bet the NC magas are So UPset and maybe even Shockked! ".. omg.. we're Not in Charge anymore!"

Mahalo pants💙

[littlemissmartypants]

8. My pleasure, Cha! ❤️

[Katinfl]

9. Moving back to NC in 2 weeks.

From FL, of all places. It will be good to get back to a state with some common sense. FL is becoming the new TX.