North Carolina Gov. Says If Harris Wins State, ‘She Is The Next President’

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) mentioned Sunday he believes Vice President Kamala Harris would have a straight shot on the White Home if she carries his state in November, reflecting her frequent visits to the area.

“There’s no query about it, it’s shut right here in North Carolina,” Cooper informed CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday. “The truth that Kamala Harris, as vp of the US, has been to North Carolina 17 instances reveals that she cares about our state.”

“She is aware of that we’re in play,” he went on. “And he or she is aware of that if she wins North Carolina, she is the following President of the US as a result of Trump has no different pathway.”

North Carolina carries 16 votes within the Electoral Faculty and would assist both candidate attain the 270 wanted to win the White Home.

Cooper has served two phrases as governor of North Carolina, a swing state and key prize through the November election. He’s term-limited, and whereas he was thought-about to be a contender on Harris’ vice presidential shortlist, he withdrew his title from consideration earlier than she tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Current polls present that Harris and former President Donald Trump are successfully tied nationally. A latest New York Instances/Siena Faculty survey discovered Trump main the vp by 1%, though these outcomes had been effectively inside the margin of error.

Harris holds a slight lead or is tied with Trump in all seven battleground states, together with North Carolina.

Trump received the state in 2020 by lower than 100,000 votes. However the state has turned blue for only one Democrat — Barack Obama in 2008 — since 1976. Harris has benefited from a surge in reputation after she entered the race, nevertheless, and the nonpartisan Prepare dinner Political Report shifted its prediction for the state from “lean Republican” to a “toss up” late final month.

Cooper mentioned Sunday he believed Harris’ message would nonetheless attraction to many undecided voters in his state as they discovered extra from her within the coming weeks

“Once we proceed to get this data out to the American public, and to folks right here in North Carolina, that Kamala Harris has an financial plan that’s going to assist decrease the price for on a regular basis folks, that’s going to assist households thrive, that’s going to guard girls’s reproductive freedom,” the governor mentioned, “I believe on the finish of the day, that’s going to be what works right here.”