NORFOLK, Va. — Former President Donald Trump has held onto Republican control of North Carolina, The Associated Press has reported. Republicans have held a narrow lead in the state since 2012. The fast-growing Southern state gave Trump his smallest margin of victory — 1.3 percentage points — over Democrat Joe Biden four years ago.

It's the first of seven swing states that the AP has called for Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris ' campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that the "blue wall" of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin was now the Democrat’s "clearest path" to victory.