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After sticking with Trump in 2020, now they will go with senile and very limited Biden? Not a chance. Dems just trying to get the GOP to spend more money here and less in other areas.

Could be they are importing voters to make up the difference..............

The whole point of the article is that it is a different "they."

The population of Democrat-leaning cities and counties in NC has exploded in absolute terms and (more importantly) relative terms to other cities and counties since 2020.

The assumption is that new arrivals will vote like the people who voted there in 2020. The question is whether that's a reasonable assumption. I am not sure it is.

A lot of the Democratic vote in the big NC metros is black, and the people moving in are not black. The white people who are moving in are often fleeing Democratic policies in the northeast and Pacific coast in a much more explicit way than they used to do so - I really doubt that they are net Democratic voters. The Hispanic and Asian-American population growth is very high in NC and those are a very Democratic-leaning demographic, at least when the candidates are / are represented to be "moderate."

I don't think that it's in Democrats' interest to be making NC seem tighter for Republicans than it is. They've got a very clear path to holding the Governorship and taking Republican legislative seats down below the current veto-proof majorities. Why incentivize Trump to fire up the base and spent a lot of time on GOTV? Almost every vote model you can point to would show that if Biden is close to winning NC he's going to be cruising to victory in Arizona and Georgia thus not need NC.