Biden plans a big push in the elusive state of North Carolina in 2024. Here's why
The Biden campaign plans to try to turn North Carolina blue in 2024. A Democratic candidate hasn't done that since 2008, but a win there would make it easier for Biden in the Electoral College.
by Tamara Keith
May 28, 2023
4 minutes
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On the way to a manufacturing event in Durham, N.C., earlier this year, newly elected Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel gave President Biden a big pitch.
Nickel's message to Biden on the Air Force One trip: Please compete in North Carolina in 2024.
"If the campaign goes all in, we can win North Carolina, but we need that support and that investment," Nickel said he told the president. "The votes are there; we've just got to get them out to vote."
Nickel said Biden was receptive: "He knew very well that it was the state that he lost by the closest amount in the
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