President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will team up in Raleigh, North Carolina, for an event focused on promoting their health care agenda.
President Joe Biden walks out of the Oval Office to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2024, to travel to Wilmington, Del. – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will promote their health care agenda on Tuesday in North Carolina, a battleground state that Democrats hope to flip in their favor after falling short to Donald Trump in the last two presidential elections.
The state is also a health care success story for the president. The American Rescue Plan, a pandemic recovery measure signed by Biden, included financial incentives for states to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income residents. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, was able to use the money, which amounted to $1.8 billion, to persuade Republican lawmakers to go along with his plan.
After speaking about health care in Raleigh, Biden and Harris will also attend a campaign fundraiser in the city. They’ve built a significant cash advantage over Trump, withBiden’s approval ratings on health care are among his highest on a range of issues, but he remains underwater there too. According tofrom The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 42% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s handling of health care while 55% disapprove.in November and found that 59% of U.
"The cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it’s not good Healthcare. I’m seriously looking at alternatives,” he wrote in a post on his Truth Social site in November. Although Democrats have failed to win a U.S. Senate seat or a presidential race there since 2008, Trump beat Biden in North Carolina by just 1.3 percentage points in 2020. The White House has repeatedly highlighted federal injections of funds for transportation, rural broadband and other initiatives while dispatching top administration officials to the state.
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