North Carolina Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickels suggests that the U.S. borrow from the United Kingdom and establish a shadow cabinet to take on the incoming Trump administration.

An already close race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat reached a razor-thin margin as most counties on Friday completed final tallies from the Nov. 5 election, setting the stage for possible recounts next week.

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Former President Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina over Vice President Kamala Harris, with 16 electoral votes at stake.

Donald Trump’s visits to North Carolina netted his greatest difference in raw votes and second-best winning percentage over Kamala Harris in the seven consensus battleground states of the America’s 60th presidential election.

Trump won North Carolina in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016, he won the state by a 3.6 percent margin over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump received 2,362,631 votes, or 49.83 percent. He was slightly leading polls before the election.

The state has now gone to Donald J. Trump in all three of his presidential bids, underscoring his political strength there.