Biden opens Obama’s playbook to flip state GOP has dominated for decades
By
Annabella Rosciglione
June 21, 2024 9:53 am
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The campaign to reelect President Joe Biden is planning on spending millions in North Carolina, hopeful they can flip the state blue as the Obama-Biden ticket once did.
Biden’s campaign has 16 offices and hired more than 60 staff members in the state so far, which is more than he invested in the state in 2020 and Hillary Clinton did in 2016. The Biden campaign has spent $5.2 million in the Tar Heel state as of June 19, an investment that could force former President Donald Trump’s campaign to spend money in the Republican-leaning state. So far, Trump’s campaign has not spent anything in North Carolina.
“This is a bigger, bolder effort,” Geoff Garin, a Biden pollster, told the Wall Street Journal. “And there’s nothing like it on the Trump side.”
Biden lost the state to Trump in 2020 by just more than 1 percentage point. Before former President Barack Obama captured the state in 2008, the last time North Carolina chose a Democrat for the presidency was in 1976 for Jimmy Carter.
The president is expected to visit North Carolina next week, his fourth visit to the state this year. His right-hand woman, Vice President Kamala Harris, has visited the state five times.
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