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Joe Biden Is Making North Carolina the Poster Child for His Agenda

North Carolina is getting a lot of attention in 2024.

Joe Biden in NC
President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit North Carolina at the end of March. Ben McKeown/AP

Team Biden and North Carolina have developed a kind of love affair. In the past month, seven cabinet officials have visited the state. Vice President Kamala Harris, who kicked off this month in North Carolina, is set to return to the state with President Biden at the end of March. That’s more visits from high-ranking administration officials than Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia have seen.

This latest “Investing in America” tour — the White House’s fourth highlighting the impacts of “Bidenomics” in battleground states — resurfaces a central risk of the administration’s 2024 strategy: Why are they going all in on a state Democrats have lost in the last three presidential elections?

One answer: The Biden team sees North Carolina as a model state for its agenda.