President Biden’s reelection campaign now sees North Carolina in play in 2024 after this week’s passage of a 12-week abortion ban by Republican state lawmakers overriding Dem Governor Roy Cooper’s veto, CNN reports, with one adviser telling them the Tar Hell State “a place that will reinforce and create another clear messaging opportunity on what is at stake.”
Biden’s team had been looking at the state as a pickup opportunity even before the ban, given it was his narrowest loss on the map at 1.35 percent or 74,483 votes in 2020, but now there will be serious investment to pad on 16 electoral votes in what’ll likely be a tight contest against Trump.