No Democrat has won the state since Barack Obama, in 2008, but Party strategists are betting that heading to more rural areas could put them over the top.

Donald Trump’s campaign declined to comment Thursday on whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor.

Recent polling of likely North Carolina voters gives Harris a three-point lead over former President Trump. Quinnipiac University’s Sept. 9 poll, released the day before the pair held their first televised debate, has Harris at 49 percent over Trump’s 46 percent support.