A lot of people here wonder what that would mean for us.”Midway between Miami and Maine, Robeson County had always been cited as both an American exception and an American example. No sitting president had ever held a formal event in Robeson County before. As RNC members and Stephens crunched numbers in the county, Chavis mingled with other friends as they watched live coverage. ADADChavis went to bed confident that Robeson County had, again, chosen the next president. She was not too concerned with whether local politics reflected the nation; she was more concerned how national issues were reverberating locally.

Source: Washington Post November 10, 2020 13:52 UTC