North Carolina Democrats were a rare case of success in an election otherwise devastating for the party.

Source: Election results are from The Associated Press. By The New York Times election results team: Michael Andre, Emma Baker, Neil Berg, Andrew Chavez, Michael Beswetherick, Matthew Bloch, Lily Boyce,

Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election

An already close race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat reached a razor-thin margin as most counties on Friday completed final tallies from the Nov. 5 election, setting the stage for possible recounts next week.

North Carolina Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickels suggests that the U.S. borrow from the United Kingdom and establish a shadow cabinet to take on the incoming Trump administration.

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Trump won North Carolina in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016, he won the state by a 3.6 percent margin over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump received 2,362,631 votes, or 49.83 percent. He was slightly leading polls before the election.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Stein’s veto could become more effective than outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper’s stamp has been recently, should the margin in a legislative district election hold for their party.