After a flurry of campaigning by both presidential candidates just ahead of Tuesday’s in-person voting, Republican former President Donald Trump appears to have won North Carolina with 50.8% of the vote, according to incomplete and unofficial results from the Associated Press late Tuesday night
The Trump victory claims North Carolina’s 16 Electoral votes making it the third time he’s carried the state in White House races, after winning in 2016 and 2020.
The last few days of the contentious race, in which a record number of residents voted early, saw both candidates and their surrogates covering North Carolina with visits, including Trump with four state stops since Saturday.
A sign of the North Carolina barnstorming by candidates was a unique pairing of Trump’s private jet parked beside Harris’ plane at the Charlotte airport Saturday as Trump was in nearby Gastonia and the vice-president was in Charlotte.
Since Oct. 1 Trump had nine total events in North Carolina. Harris was in the Tar Heel state for five stops over the same period.