North Carolina voted blue from 1876 to 1964 before flipping red from 1968 until 2008, when Barack Obama won the state. The state went red again, with Mitt Romney winning in 2012 by 2%, followed by Donald Trump taking the state’s 16 electoral votes in the last two elections by 3.9% and 1.3% in 2020. 

The Washington Examiner is following the key issues voters care about as they prepare to vote for the next president of the United States. The specific issues being tracked are social security, crime, abortion, economy, and immigration.