Trailing in polls, Biden and Harris visit NC to talk health care and seek donations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Young said Biden chose North Carolina for this event because of the state's recent bipartisan success in expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which is also called Obamacare.
67% : The federal government paid North Carolina nearly $2 billion in a sort of signing bonus for expanding Medicaid now, a decade after it first became available -- a payment Biden pushed for to help convince the final few holdout states to authorize expansion for their residents.
61% : Biden is expected to discuss his efforts to lower drug prices and improve the Affordable Care Act "so that millions of people across the country have the security and peace of mind that comes with affordable health insurance," Biden advisor Christen Linke Young told WRAL News.
59% : "It is a concentrated effort to enslave everybody," Robinson said of the Affordable Care Act during a 2018 appearance on a podcast called Politics and Prophecy.
51% : "Republicans have long made repealing the Affordable Care Act a political priority.
49% : Trump, who also won the state in 2016, has also been a frequent local presence this year, visiting North Carolina at least twice in recent months; he also personally backed the former leader of the state GOP, Michael Whatley, to take over the national Republican Party.
47% : Biden is expected to focus on contrasting Democratic and Republican views on Obamacare, a senior administration official told reporters.
45% : But they failed to get it done in 2017, even when Trump was president and the GOP held both chambers of Congress.
44% : Although Biden won the election, Trump beat him in North Carolina by about 1.5% of the vote in 2020.
41% : This month's WRAL News poll found Trump with a 50%-to-45% lead over Biden among likely voters.
39% : Up until then, the fate of Obamacare had seemed too uncertain to commit the state to using it to expand health care coverage, they said.
38% : "WRAL News polling also shows Biden trailing Trump among likely voters age 18-34, an age bracket that typically leans left.
35% : Biden also held lower favorability scores than Trump.
20% : But while the polling showed more voters skeptical of Biden's acuity than Trump's, it also found most voters concerned with Trump's pending criminal cases.

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