Jill Biden will speak at drive-in rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro on Saturday
Jill Biden will headline drive-in rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro on Saturday — three days before the election — to campaign for her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The one in Charlotte will begin at 1 p.m., followed by one in Greensboro at 3 p.m.
The Biden campaign has not provided details on where they will be or how to participate.
Also on Saturday: Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams will visit Raleigh and Durham to promote Biden’s campaign. Abrams is a former Georgia legislative leader and the first African-American woman to be nominated for governor by a major party. She narrowly lost that 2018 race in Georgia
It will be Jill Biden’s second visit to North Carolina, where the latest polls suggest a close race for the state’s 15 electoral votes between former Vice President Biden and Republican President Donald Trump. Biden is slightly ahead of Trump in the RealClear Politics N.C. poll average, 48.4 percent to 47.7 percent.
Trump, who carried the state in 2016, is scheduled to hold a rally Monday in Fayetteville — his ninth stop in North Carolina since he spoke at the Republican National Convention kickoff in Charlotte on Aug. 24. Other members of his family have frequently campaigned in the state, most recently daughters Tiffany and Ivanka in Charlotte earlier this week. And Vice President Mike Pence spoke to supporters this week in Kinston, Greensboro and Wilmington.
Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, have each visited North Carolina twice during the fall campaign. Biden was in Durham on Oct. 18 and Harris was in Charlotte and Asheville on Oct. 21. Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, has campaigned in North Carolina three times.
No further details about the Saturday campaign stops by Jill Biden and Stacey Abrams were available on Thursday.
As the campaign heads into its final weekend, more than half of the state’s 7.3 million registered voters have already cast a ballot. As of Thursday morning, nearly 3.9 million North Carolinians had voted early, either in-person or by mail.
This story was originally published October 29, 2020 at 9:46 AM with the headline "Jill Biden will speak at drive-in rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro on Saturday."