United States – U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to North Carolina today. They will contrast their plan to address healthcare problems with the blueprint congressional Republicans recently presented as their campaign hits the trail in a bid to flip the state, which hasn’t voted Democratic since 2008.
Biden Tour Caps Off in North Carolina
The North Carolina trip ends the Biden tour, which is comprised of all the states that fought the campaign after the recent State of the Union speech. The Democrat, Biden, employed the rally as a platform to draw distinctions between Republicans. He is also raising millions of dollars since the main Republican rival, Donald Trump, has been in court litigation, both criminal and civil, as reported by Reuters.
Biden’s reelection campaign now has its eye on North Carolina after 2020. Trump just managed to squeeze out a victory, and Bush just won. A Democrat, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, was the last person to capture this southern state in 2008, yet Democrats also noticed that the winning margin of Republicans had been decreasing in the past decade.
Healthcare Achievements Highlighted
By drawing attention to an expansion in the number of people enrolled in Obamacare, formally named the Affordable Care Act, from 9 million three years ago to the USD 21 million today, Biden will also boast a USD 35-worth price cap on insulin and a program that empowers the federal government to bargain for Medicare drug prices with pharmaceutical companies for the first time.
He will, after that, weave that success into a budget from the Republican Study Committee, which the senior White House adviser Anita Dunn says will be nullifying Obamacare and Medicaid insurance aids for the poor while stripping pre-existing conditions protection.
“The difference is simple. The president and vice president have always believed that healthcare is a right, not a privilege,” Dunn said.
Tight Race and Shifting Support
As of now, Trump beats Biden by 3% in North Carolina, as reported by the latest poll from the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. Strikingly, this survey, too, illustrates that Biden is suffering a decline in the support of Blacks.
Democrats are expecting some down-ballot races to be enough to help Biden reach the White House a week after the elections. They think that the support from the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson, could lead the voters in the opposite direction in 2024.
Robinson’s Controversial Stance
Over the years, Robinson has developed a reputation as a political firebrand and has walked an amortizing road in politics, partly through an inflammatory speech on social issues that has appealed to the pro-Trump base and dissuaded Democrats, as reported by Reuters.
Robinson is against LGBT rights and abortion, and he has a history of making antisemitic remarks.