Meanwhile on the other side... https://www.newsweek.com/republican...fectively-over-trump-will-win-analyst-1965956 Republicans Believe Election Is 'Effectively Over,' Trump Will Win: Analyst Published Oct 08, 2024 at 4:28 PM EDT Republicans believe the 2024 race is already over and that former President Donald Trump will be elected back to the White House, according to political analyst Mark Halperin. A significant number of Republicans have declared the presidential race "effectively over," agreeing with Halperin that Trump will "checkmate" Vice President Kamala Harris with a combination of four to five swing states, the analyst said Tuesday on independent streaming platform 2Way. "Trump is going to lock up the Sun Belt states, probably all four, but at least three. And then he's going to win Pennsylvania, and that checkmates [Harris]," Halperin told the platform. "They may be wrong. But there's a not insignificant number of them who are quite confident of that. And the data they've seen on the absentees and the early votes and the voter registration ... makes them more confident." He added that he doesn't know "a single Democrat" who has that same feeling about the Electoral College, saying that some believe Harris can win certain battleground states, but have not expressed confidence that she can win on a national level. Halperin is a veteran political journalist who was among the first to report that President Joe Biden would drop out of the 2024 race, days before he announced his decision. He now runs a popular newsletter and political analysis streaming show on the 2Way platform. On July 18, Halperin said that his sources had told him that Biden had agreed to step aside and that a speech had already been drafted for the president to deliver as early as that weekend. Biden would officially announce that he was no longer seeking reelection on July 21. He would also immediately endorse Harris as his replacement, a move that contradicted Halperin's reporting. "This decision was reached, I'm told, all of a sudden because of the high-level pressure from [former House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, [former President] Barack Obama and others, as well as the decision of many of Biden's top aides, that there was no path forward for him, that he would not be able to win this election, win the general election, and therefore he's stepping aside again as early as this weekend," Halperin told Newsmax in July.
Roy Cooper is expected to run against incumbent Republican Thom Tillis in the 2026 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina.
Roy Cooper is a centrist Democrat who is generally popular across our state. He has a good chance of winning but I expect the race in 2026 will be very close in our purple state. Noting that 2026 is still two years off and a lot can happen over the span of a couple of years that can shake up this race.
Did ya see Don The Con praised Georgia's guv for their storm response while criticizing your NC guv. Sure it had nothing to do with GA (R) and NC (D). Guess he blames more deaths in NC because of the (D), like Hurricanes have a mind and says let kill me some more in that state bam bam. Also at same time sucking up to Guv Kemp even though it kills him to have to. Don The Con should have gotten out his Sharpie pen and redirected it out into the Atlantic. lol
It is true that Tillis is no MAGA -- which will hurt him in the 2026 race in our state -- especially if Trump is re-elected. The majority residents of our state including the impacted people in the mountains believe that the federal, state, and local governments have responded well to the Helene disaster in context of the situation -- clearly it will take many months in order to recover and re-build. Only MAGA liars including Trump from outside our state are trying to use the Helene response as a political tool and spread endless disinformation. People should keep in mind that this disinformation is harming the victims and undermining getting them help.