President Donald Trump won North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes, avoiding a hard-fought challenge by Democratic candidate Joe Biden and keeping the battlefield for Republicans.
Trump’s victory in North Carolina leads him to 232 electoral votes. Biden, who was declared the winner of the election on November 7, has 290 electoral votes and defeated Trump by defeating Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
Trump aggressively campaigned in North Carolina with in-person rallies at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, including meetings in Fayetteville, Winston-Salem and Greenville in the weeks leading up to the election.
He was scheduled to hold the Republican National Convention in the state, but withdrew after a fight with the state’s Democratic governor over coronavirus restrictions.
The Associated Press has yet to call the presidential race in Georgia, which is running a recount.
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