Biden, Harris Head to North Carolina as They Seek to Flip State

Source: US News and World Report/Reuters

March 26, 2024, at 6:02 a.m.


(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris travel to North Carolina on Tuesday to contrast their healthcare agenda with a blueprint congressional Republicans recently offered, as their reelection campaign seeks to flip the state for the first time since 2008.

The North Carolina trip marks the finale of Biden's tour of all the campaign battleground states following the State of the Union speech earlier this month. Biden, a Democrat, used the tour to draw contrasts with Republicans and to raise millions of dollars as top Republican rival Donald Trump remains bogged down in costly criminal and civil legal challenges.

Biden’s reelection campaign is eyeing North Carolina after Trump barely eked out a win the last time the two went head-to-head in 2020. Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was the last Democrat to win the Southern state in 2008, but Democrats note that the margin of victory for Republicans has narrowed in recent elections.

Biden is expected to tout record enrollment in Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, at 21 million - up from 9 million when he took office - as well as a new $35 price cap on insulin and a plan to empower the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug prices with pharmaceutical companies for the first time.

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