"Can" he? Yes. The baseline lean of the NC electorate is about R+3
But Rs have uniquely bad candidates for Governor, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, plus Ds running for nearly every legislative seat
Flipping NC is possible
This is kind of my hope, that Trump - successfully even- pulls off election shenanigans but still loses EC because of a state he's not expecting to lose and he wasn't prepared to litigate.
I'd prefer an outright Biden win, but this would be fun too.
The way Bluesky does quoteposts obscures it, but my post that Greg is quoting is itself quoting a long thread about how Trump is still the one with an uphill battle ahead of him. Must reading if you're trying to break out of doomscroll mode.