Support from rural Democrats will be crucial for Harris to win this swing state
NPRSupport from rural Democrats will be crucial for Harris to win this swing state North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state, and canvassing groups are working to turn out voters in one purple county as early voting continues in the state. DETROW: This is the exact type of work that North Carolina State Democratic Chair Anderson Clayton says is crucial to building up the party's competitiveness in the Tar Heel State. It matters to the results, even if those extra votes are on the margins because North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state. If Democrats are going to win Nash County and win North Carolina, it's going to be through thousands of interactions like what Down Home is doing and what, on a more casual level, Lynn Jones did with Donnell Jones, nudging others to show up and vote regardless of how disengaged or skeptical they were at the beginning of those conversations.