I wish people would stop blaming fraud. If there were conservative candidates they could win most of these. Blame karl rove, the bush monarchy, fox news. But don’t blame some mythical mass voter fraud. It is good to see people sticking to their beliefs rather than being a bunch of uncle johns on the plantation.
North Carolina has been hedging to the left for years. Sorry if you can’t see that. Conservative is great, but there has to be appeal to the middle too. 35% of the electorate just doesn’t win and more importantly, the Democrats will run towards those middle voters so your “true conservative” will have to as well.