WASHINGTON, D.C. -- North Carolina is shaping up to be a battleground in this November's presidential and U.S. Senate races. And so, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the campaigns are moving ahead.

Trump Victory, a joint effort between the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, recently hosted a Zoom training session with campaign volunteers in North Carolina.

On the Friday call, volunteers were taught how to do virtual voter outreach for Republican candidates up and down the ballot - without having to leave the safety of their homes.

“From an RNC perspective, we have to continue to campaign. As the president’s governing and focusing on our country, we have an election six months away,” said GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who offered remarks toward the beginning of the call.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, also spoke, offering a blunt assessment about the stakes associated with his re-election effort this November.

“North Carolina is ground zero for keeping a majority in the U.S. Senate,” he said. “The Democrats know if they beat us, then they’re most likely going to resume control of the Senate. We cannot let that happen.”

North Carolina is one of four states that election observers say Democrats likely need to flip from red to blue this fall to have a chance at taking power in the upper chamber of Congress. (The other states are Arizona, Colorado, and Maine.)

Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which rates elections, currently labels the Tar Heel State a ‘toss-up’ in both the Senate and presidential races.

“You could hypothetically come up with scenarios in which [Democrats] win the Senate without North Carolina, but they’re scenarios that basically don’t make much sense,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball.

On the presidential front, Kondik said that North Carolina is a bit more of a “luxury” for Democrats than Republicans when it comes to the Electoral College math.

“It’s a more important state for [Donald] Trump to defend, I think, than for [Joe] Biden to take,” he said.

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And so, the campaigning is very much underway.

The RNC says that with the help of volunteers, they have already made more than 800,000 voter contacts across the state since the pandemic began. That includes nearly 80,000 this past Saturday alone.

Only further underlining the importance of North Carolina this fall is the fact that Charlotte is set to host the Republican National Convention in August.

On the call, McDaniel said they are still full steam ahead with the convention, noting they have hired a health security official to help ensure they hold the convention in a way that keeps people safe amid the coronavirus.