Saturday is the final day of in-person early voting in North Carolina. More than 3.1 million have already voted across the state, according to the State Board of Elections. In Mecklenburg County, 337,016 people have voted early in person or sent in absentee ballots, according to the county Board of Elections.

Democrats, Republicans and voting rights advocates launched a wide array of efforts to boost Black voter turnout over the last week of the presidential campaign.

Jim Messina, former President Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, said Sunday that early voting numbers are a “little scary” for Vice President Harris’s campaign. Messina noted in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that Republicans are voting early at rates higher than they have historically,

Jim Messina, who ran the Obama campaign in 2012, warned that the early voting data could be a red flag for Vice President Kamala Harris amid indications of a surge in Republican early vote turnout. “The early vote numbers are a little scary,

Jim Messina said that the biggest concern for the Harris campaign ahead of Tuesday's showdown is the early voting numbers.