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Democrats urge Biden to campaign heavily in North Carolina in 2024

President Biden takes selfies after a March 28, 2023 visit to Wolfspeed Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer in Durham, N.C.
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President Biden takes selfies after a March 28, 2023 visit to Wolfspeed Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer in Durham, N.C.

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.

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Tamara Keith
Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and thrown herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and the insurrection. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic.