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The 28.36% turnout marked an 18.2 percentage point decrease from the turnout in the 2016 state-run presidential primaries, but a similar turnout to the 2000, 2004, and 2012 presidential primaries. The state-run primary elections for the Democratic and Republican parties were held on March 17, 2020. [7]
It was the closest Republican state victory in 2012 and 2020, even as polls indicated a narrow win by Democrat Joe Biden in the latter. However, at the gubernatorial level, incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper has won both terms, and an upcoming race for a new governor coinciding with the presidential election is expected to be competitive.
This is the electoral history of Kamala Harris, the 49th and current vice president of the United States.She previously served as a United States senator from California (2017–2021), the 32nd Attorney General of California (2011–2017), and the 27th District Attorney of San Francisco (2004–2011).
270toWin is an American political website that projects who will win United States presidential, House of Representatives, Senate, and gubernatorial elections and allows users to create their own electoral maps. [3] It also tracks the results of United States presidential elections by state throughout the country's history. [4]
Presidential Democrats have not even been able to come within single digits of carrying the state after LBJ's narrow sweep in his 1964 landslide, and the only one to win more than 40% of the state vote since then was Barack Obama who garnered 41.60% in 2008.
When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, most political experts rated Taft and Eisenhower as about equal in delegate vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by both Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Texas and Georgia, and claimed that Taft's leaders in those states had unfairly ...
Throughout the 1970s, the United States underwent a wrenching period of low economic growth, high inflation and interest rates, and intermittent energy crises. [4] By October 1978, Iran—a major oil supplier to the United States at the time—was experiencing a major uprising that severely damaged its oil infrastructure and greatly weakened its capability to produce oil. [5]
Starting with Lyndon B. Johnson's victory in 1964, every Democratic nominee for president has won the District by massive margins, including the 49-state landslide defeats of George McGovern and Walter Mondale in 1972 and 1984. Thus, the district is predicted to again be a very easy Democratic win in 2024.