'The grandmas are angry'published at 22:34 Greenwich Mean Time 3 November
Brandon Drenon
Reporting from North Carolina
On the final Sunday before the election, Carol Holmes is canvassing for Democrats in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County.
She’s with Michael Tucker, a member of the Republicans for Harris campaign.
Together, they’re walking through the grounds of an apartment complex outside Charlotte, knocking on the doors of “persuadable Republicans” - those that, based of certain data points, Democrats think are winnable.
Of the three homes I saw them approach, only one answered.
“I’ve already voted. I wish people wouldn’t do this,” the woman behind the barely-opened door says before immediately closing it.
Holmes continued on. The 76-year-old badly wants to see Harris become the first female president and won’t be discouraged, not by slammed doors, nor by the flights of stairs she has to trek to reach the houses here.
“I marched in the 70s, marched for women’s lives. We thought we had fought that battle,” Holmes says. “The grandma’s my age are angry that they’re having to do it again.”
“If Kamala wins it’s going to be so exciting. If she loses, it’s going to be very crushing.”