MAGA fanatics in North Carolina are not convinced that Vice President Kamala Harris‘ entry into the 2024 race will impact the results in November.
The Democratic Party lauds there is an ‘enthusiasm boost’ after President Joe Biden stepped aside and Harris took over his campaign on Sunday – but Donald Trump‘s biggest supporters think it’s all a ruse.
Democrats are being ‘really quiet’ in North Carolina, 61-year-old surgical nurse Neal Morris told DailyMail.com at Trump’s rally on Wednesday.
Trump’s rally in Charlotte, North Carolina is his first since Biden announced he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsed his No. 2. It is also only the second rally since the former president was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at his event in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier in July.
Jennifer Braga, 32, owns a cleaning business in Indian Trail, North Carolina and is originally from Brazil. She thinks Democrats don’t have a choice but to rally behind Harris in November and said: ‘They backed themselves into a corner.’
Jennifer Braga, 32, and husband Wesley Braga, 37, attend a Trump rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday. Jennifer told DailyMail.com that Kamala Harris taking over for Joe Biden ‘hasn’t changed anything because the Republican Party is really united’
North Carolina is a must-win state in 2024 and Democrats have turned their attention there to try and pick it up in November.
In 2016, Trump won North Carolina by 3.6 percent and in 2020 his lead narrowed, but he still beat Biden there by 1.3 percent. Democrats think North Carolina is a red battleground they can pick up in 2024 and are working overtime to sway voters there.
The Democratic Party in North Carolina plans to double their workforce in the next two weeks, a spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com. And the Party decided to start staffing up six months earlier than in previous election cycles.
But Trump voters in the Tar Heel State agree with the former president that Harris’ candidacy doesn’t change anything about the state of the race.
Morris said that Harris is just a ‘different puppet’ that will carry out the same agenda Biden put forward.
‘It hasn’t changed anything because the Republican Party is really united,’ said Braga, who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 before switching to Trump in 2020.
A 24-year-old bartender in Charlotte told DailyMail.com that she and other Republicans are ‘not worried about Kamala taking over for Joe.’
Trump said in a call Tuesday the switch in candidates held no fear for him. He said her campaign for president imploded in 2020.
‘If she campaigns that way now, and this is only going to be tougher, although she does have a lot of support from the fake news. There’s no question about that,’ he told reporters on a briefing call.
‘But if she campaigns the way she campaigned then, you know, I suspect she won’t be too tough.’
Vice President Kamala Harris is the de facto Democratic Party nominee this week after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday
In 2020, Harris ran a wildly unpopular primary bid against about a dozen other Democrats – including now boss Joe Biden.
She constantly polled around 2 percent or less in the crowded field and was labeled as unlikable by voters and political experts.
More broadly, Trump fans think that Harris will bring just ‘more of the same’ of the last four years under Biden’s presidency – and they are not happy about it.
Braga said that the cost of cleaning supplies and other operational expenses to run her small business have tripled under Biden.
And Morris said he was supposed to retire two years ago when he was 59, but has been forced to keep working as a member of the ‘middle working class.’
