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...Trump beat Joe Biden in North Carolina by a margin of just over 1 percentage point in 2020. Four years earlier, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton there by a margin of almost 4 points....
...Robinson, the North Carolina lieutenant-governor, had won more than 63 per cent of Republican votes, with 54 per cent of ballots counted....
...“Today, in South Carolina, we’re getting around 40 per cent of the vote....
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...I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”...
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...Fedspeak: US Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is due to speak about financial stability at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina....
...He also tended to see more support in rural counties versus large metro areas, reminiscent of his voter base in 2020....
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