VP Pence will visit Raleigh for an anti-abortion event, endorsement from police group
Vice President Mike Pence will visit Raleigh on Sept. 3 to take part in an anti-abortion event, visit a pregnancy center and speak before a supportive police officers’ group.
The Susan B. Anthony List is hosting the anti-abortion event that will take place a day before mail-in absentee ballots are sent out in North Carolina. It is part of a part of a multi-state tour Pence is headlining with the organization.
“Life is winning across the nation,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, a North Carolina native, said in a statement. “Communities across North Carolina are working hard to build up pro-life resources to provide for the needs of mothers and their children.”
Pence will visit the Gateway Women’s Care Center and then participate in the “Life WINS!” event at Christ Baptist Church in Raleigh.
Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest are also expected to the anti-abortion event. Tillis is running for re-election, and Forest is running for governor.
Pence will also accept an endorsement from the Southern States Police Benevolent Association, which represents more than 32,000 law enforcement officers. Pence is scheduled to speak to the group.
North Carolina is considered a toss-up in the presidential election. Polling averages show a tied race between President Donald Trump and Pence and the Democratic ticket of former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California.
Pence was in Charlotte on Monday to deliver a speech to delegates during the first day of the Republican National Convention. He delivered a formal acceptance speech Wednesday in Baltimore. Trump also visited Charlotte and Mills River on Monday.
The pair won North Carolina in 2016, and it is vital again to their election strategy in 2020.
Trump visited Morrisville a month ago. Pence also visited the Triangle in late July. He and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited an Apex private school. Pence later met with executives from Wake Research in Durham about work on a coronavirus vaccine.
More than 460,000 requests for absentee-by-mail ballots have been made so far, more than double the number of requests made in 2016.
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This story was originally published August 28, 2020 at 9:47 AM.
