'He's trying to put the nail in the coffin': Trump moves to reassure Republicans in North Carolina

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67% : Since Labor Day, North Carolina is the state where the Trump campaign has spent the second most on advertising, according to AdImpact, and the ad tracking service shows Trump almost completely matching the $34 million Harris has spent on ads here during that time.
53% : This time, Trump rallies throughout the summer and fall in North Carolina and every other swing state have featured large signs urging supporters to vote early.
53% : Polling averages now show the race here exceptionally tight, with Trump holding a narrow lead over Harris, who has sought to make inroads with the state's suburban, college-educated voters, as well as voters of color.
52% : "Trump's rally Tuesday in the central part of the state came on the heels of three campaign stops the previous day, underscoring the importance of a place Trump has twice won, and months ago seemed on track for a nearly effortless victory.
45% : And while the polls remain tight in North Carolina, and Trump frequently exaggerates his standing in public surveys, early voting data in recent days has Republicans breathing easier.
45% : Clark, who has voted Republican in recent election cycles, said a number of her relatives, lifelong Democrats, are supporting Harris -- "they're just going to stick with it, whether it's good or not.""Some people don't like the personality," Clark said of Trump.
44% : Get over it," Crystal Clark, 59, of Burlington, said she's supporting Trump over Harris because "we need to be voting on our economy, the safety of America, jobs.""What you're going to do for my 401K that's, like, slumped out," Clark said.
44% : "What are you going to do for the cost of all the food that we got going on right now, gas prices, that sort of thing?"Including Trump's visit on Monday to see western North Carolina hurricane damage, a rally in Greenville that afternoon, and an address to faith leaders in Concord that evening, Trump has held four campaign stops here in just two days, a sign that his campaign still saw vulnerabilities in the state.
44% : Despite enthusiastically endorsing Robinson earlier this year in this very city, and previously praising him as "Martin Luther King on steroids," Trump has not campaigned with Robinson since news broke last month that he allegedly made a number of lewd posts on pornographic online forums.
41% : Fourteen days," Trump said of the time left until Election Day, "you don't take a day off ...
39% : On Tuesday, Trump announced that he would cast his ballot early.
39% : One prominent Republican in the state, granted anonymity to speak freely, predicted Trump will be able to focus elsewhere in the final two weeks because "the ground has shifted here in North Carolina.
38% : Trump, aware of the close margins here and in other swing states, has sought to distance himself from the state's Republican nominee for governor, Mark Robinson.
34% : And GOP early voting is in a better place than in 2020 -- when Trump was telling his supporters not to vote early.
31% : Before the Trump rally Tuesday, Weatherman dismissed the question of whether it was a smart strategy for Trump to keep his distance from Robinson, calling the scandal surrounding him "crap you guys dig up.
27% : At his rally Tuesday night, Trump said as much -- declaring that Harris was "cratering in the polls," and claiming "she's sleeping" because she had no public campaign events scheduled that day.
22% : Asked by POLITICO on Monday whether North Carolina voters should support Robinson for governor, Trump declined to take a position, saying he is "not familiar" with the state of the race.
10% : "A Harris campaign official, granted anonymity to speak freely about the state of the race here, said "Trump is cherrypicking early vote data," while claiming that internal Harris campaign data shows Trump "has consequential slippage with suburban women voters" in the state compared to 2020.
5% : "Trump, meanwhile, was taunting Harris on stage, after drawing criticism earlier Tuesday for seeming to invoke a racist stereotype in calling her "lazy as hell.""How do you take a day off?

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