For the second week in a row, Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to North Carolina. Harris will be in Charlotte April 4 to open a field office in the city, which will be one of 10 the campaign said it’s launching across the state in an effort to elect Democrats in 2024.
The campaign had not provided details of the trip as of Sunday afternoon. Harris’ visit will mark the fourth time this year the state has played host to the vice president — and her second trip to Charlotte — as the contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump heats up. Just last week, Biden and Harris stumped together in Raleigh to tout the administration’s efforts on affordable health care and attend a private fundraiser. The frequency of their trips isn’t likely to slow down.
With North Carolina poised as a key battleground state in the Biden-Trump rematch, political insiders expect to see a lot of both candidates in the coming months. Despite losing the general election to Biden in 2020, Trump won the Tar Heel State by a 1.4-point margin — far more narrowly than his nearly 3.7-point lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
There’s “hardly a week that’s gonna go by that you’re not going to have either a Democratic principal in state or Republican principal in state. I think that’s because North Carolina is going to be incredibly competitive,” Democratic strategist Morgan Jackson told The News & Observer last month. In her visit last week at John Chavis Memorial Park in Raleigh, Harris decried the country’s high maternal mortality rate, praising the Biden administration’s efforts to expand Medicaid to cover more postpartum care, The N&O reported.
This article appears courtesy of our media partner The Charlotte Observer.