ON SEPTEMBER 28th, the day after her first presidential debate with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton held a rally in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, where she ripped into Mr Trump’s “dangerously incoherent,” performance. Days earlier, the Democratic nominee had chosen Greensboro, one of the state’s largest cities, for another important appearance: Her first rally after a few days off the trail with pneumonia. As she faces a tightening race, Mrs Clinton is stepping up her efforts in North Carolina—where polls put her neck-and-neck with Mr Trump—in the hope that it will smooth her path to the White House in November.
For Mr Trump, the stakes in the Tar Heel state, are even higher. He has spent a lot of time in North Carolina and in recent weeks his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, a native, has been helping open Trump offices here. Mrs Clinton’s campaign was up and running in the state early on in the campaign, opening dozens of field offices and airing adverts. Mr Trump’s campaign has downplayed his campaign’s relative bricks-and-mortar absence, claiming that the election will be won or lost in the final weeks.
Many pundits believe that Mr Trump...Continue reading
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