Harris, at Chavis, spoke on the high maternal mortality rate in the United States in comparison to other developed countries. She said millions of women don’t have access to postpartum care and talked about how the Biden administration has expanded Medicaid coverage of it.

The Affordable Care Act was passed into law in 2010 under the Obama administration. It expanded the Medicaid program, which provides health insurance to low-income individuals, added Medicare benefits and created the federal Marketplace, which provides subsidies to those who qualify to help lower health insurance costs.

In an interview with The News & Observer on Tuesday morning, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden and Harris want to continue to lower prescription drugs prices.

“Americans should not have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars a month to figure out — just to live. To live. And so that’s a big part of it, that he’ll lean into prescription drugs, continuing to lower those costs,” she said.

This is one of many trips by Biden administration members to the state in recent months, pointing to the importance of North Carolina in November’s presidential election. In this battleground state, former President Donald Trump beat Biden in 2020 by less than 2% of votes.

Biden was in Raleigh in January to talk about his administration’s latest investments in expanding high-speed internet access in the state. Harris was in Durham in March and announced federal money to help women- and minority-led businesses.

As for the GOP, Trump held a rally in Greensboro a few days before North Carolina’s presidential primary election on March 5.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley also held a rally in March, but later dropped out of the race for president.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, who until recently led the NCGOP, said in a statement Tuesday that “North Carolina voters delivered the Old North State for President Trump in 2016 and 2020, and will proudly cast their ballots for him yet again this November.”

“A visit by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will not change the fact that North Carolina families are suffering from out of control inflation, our border is wide open and the world is a more dangerous place than it was under President Trump,” Whatley said.

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