Slate of GOP extremists has Democrats excited for North Carolina fight

In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy—who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and thinks a six-week abortion ban isn’t quite extreme enough—for governor. Tar Heel State Republicans also nominated another extremist, Michele Morrow, for superintendent of the state’s schools.

Perhaps 10 years ago people would have been floored by these winners. But now? Why should anyone be shocked that Trump’s Republican Party nominated a Trump Republican?

A better question: How might North Carolina’s lurch rightward benefit Biden and other Democrats running in the state?

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