In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, the Biden campaign has made a stop in North Carolina on Friday. The Tar Heel State was an important destination on the campaign trail, as President Joe Biden lost by one point in the 2020 election to former President Donald J. Trump.
First Lady Jill Biden stopped at a fundraising event for the Biden Victory Fund after visiting Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, compelling the guests that voting for Biden is necessary as “American democracy is on the line.”
The event took place at the home of Kristin and John Replogle in Raleigh, where the First Lady spoke in the kitchen in front of a crowd of about 90 people, encouraging the audience to come closer to her at the lectern to be more personable and approachable to Tar Heel State voters.
“This year, our campaign is going to do everything we can to make up that one point and more,” Biden said as the crowd cheered. The First Lady reminded the supporters about the actions taken under her husband’s leadership, mentioning passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which the First Lady notes is “the boldest” climate legislation in American history. She spoke about how President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, making her the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, and the progress he’s made to lower prescription drug prices and a cap on insulin.
After the whirlwind American politics have been these past couple of years, she reminds the audience that a second term for the Biden presidency can be hopeful during these “uncertain and tumultuous times.”
In order to have some sense of stability, Biden encouraged North Carolina voters to vote blue in the upcoming election as “democracy is on the line,” showing concern if former President Trump were to be reelected. She reminded the guests to remember the feeling they felt the morning after the election in 2016.
“We cannot let that happen again because I don’t want to wake up with that feeling of ‘Oh, we should have done more, we should have done this, we should have done that,'” Biden said. “We have to begin now.”
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