“Biden does not need to capture North Carolina to take the presidency. Winning the state would be gravy for him. As I noted earlier Sunday, Biden’s best path to the presidency likely runs through the Great Lakes battleground states. Trump, however, doesn’t have that luxury. Biden is currently posting considerably larger leads than he is North Carolina in every state Hillary Clinton carried in 2016, as well as Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He’s probably doing better in Arizona as well. Those states combined, without North Carolina, get Biden to about 320 electoral votes” CNN election forecaster Harry Enten writes.
“If Trump is losing in North Carolina, he’s almost certainly losing in enough states to fall short of an electoral college majority. Indeed, North Carolina is reflective of the electoral college map story right now. Biden is winning in states he needs to win. Trump, though, is in trouble in a number of states he must carry.”