A Visit To North Carolina Won’t Gloss Over The Fact That Last Night’s Debate Was The Worst-Case Scenario For Biden
BIDEN IS DESPERATE TO WIN OVER NORTH CAROLINA, BUT THE TAR HEEL STATE ISN’T FOOLED
- Today, Biden will visit Raleigh, North Carolina where he will tout his failed agenda and attempt to save face for his terrible performance last night on the debate stage.
- An overwhelming majority of voters say that President Trump won the debate, delivering the greatest debate performance in history.
- Biden’s visit to the Tar Heel State comes as North Carolinians face higher prices on just about everything – with Biden’s radical tax-and-spend agenda directly to blame.
- Despite numerous presidential visits, North Carolina wants change in the next election.
- Trump is up six points over Biden in the latest North Carolina presidential polls.
- Over half of North Carolinians trust Trump to handle the economy, immigration, and international conflicts better than Biden.
TAR HEEL STATE RESIDENTS ARE FEELING THE PAIN OF DEMOCRATS’ INFLATIONARY SPENDING
- Prices have risen 20.1 percent since Biden took office, costing North Carolina families an additional $1,000 per month.
- The average Tar Heel family has already lost nearly $24,000 paying for the increased cost of living under Biden.
- North Carolina families are spending an average of $1,064 on groceries per month, higher than the national average.
- Soaring home prices and high interest rates, brought on by Bidenflation, have left North Carolina with the 10th highest home prices in the nation.
- From January 2020 to January 2024, the income needed to afford a median-priced home in North Carolina increased from $57,489 to $92,657.
- In Raleigh, North Carolina, home prices have risen 14 percent since the beginning of 2024.
- Renting isn’t any easier, with 28 percent of North Carolina renters considered cost-burdened.
- In some parts of North Carolina, rents have risen 69 percent in the past five years and 34 percent in 2023 alone.
- Over half of North Carolina residents say inflation concerns have affected a lot of their spending decisions the past year and 42 percent identify inflation as the most important issue facing North Carolina.
NORTH CAROLINIANS ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR DEMOCRATS’ FAILURES ON IMMIGRATION AND CRIME
- Under Biden, nearly 10 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended crossing the southern border, roughly 90 percent of the population of North Carolina.
- Nearly half a million illegal immigrants now reside in North Carolina.
- The influx of illegal migration has cost North Carolina taxpayers $3.14 billion between costs for education, police and corrections, healthcare and general government services.
- North Carolinians have also paid a steep price through increases in human trafficking and illegal drugs.
- In 2021, fentanyl was involved in 83 percent of fatal drug overdoses in North Carolina.
- North Carolina has seen a 77 percent increase in human trafficking since 2023.
- North Carolinians want stronger immigration enforcement and Republicans are delivering.
- In a recent poll, 81 percent of North Carolina respondents said that every state should use every tool available to combat illegal immigration while 75 percent expressed support for mandating employers use E-Verify.
- The North Carolina state legislature has passed legislation requiring North Carolina sheriffs to honor ICE “detainer requests” and to notify ICE if they cannot determine the legal status of persons charged with high-level offenses.
- Crime has likewise surged in North Carolina under Biden, who has surrounded himself with ‘Defund the Police’ activists.
- Police forces across the state are struggling with vacancies, with law enforcement leaders stating that the police shortage is their chief concern.
- The Durham County Sheriff’s Office has a 37 percent vacancy rate, while the Raleigh Police Department has between 80 and 90 vacancies.
- The quality of life and well-being of North Carolina’s police has suffered as a result of working overtime amid statewide police shortages.
NORTH CAROLINIANS TRUST REPUBLICANS TO GET THEIR STATE ON TRACK
- President Trump won North Carolina in 2020 by more than four percentage points and is poised to defeat Biden again.
- 55 percent of North Carolinians trust President Trump more on the economy, 54 percent on immigration, and 51 percent on international conflicts.
- Biden’s disapproval rating in North Carolina is 55 percent.
- In 2022, Republicans saw major victories in the state legislature, and with state Rep. Tricia Cotham’s switch to the Republican Party the GOP gained a supermajority in North Carolina’s legislature.
- In two out of three polls in June 2024, Republican Mark Robinson is leading Democrat Josh Stein in the 2024 North Carolina governor race.
MEANWHILE, PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL VISIT VIRGINIA WHERE THE OLD DOMINION STATE IS STRUGGLING UNDER BIDEN’S FAILURES
- With prices in the Old Dominion State up by 21.4 percent since Biden took office, Virginia families continue to suffer from high inflation on everyday goods.
- Virginia households have lost more than $27,000 on average due to Bidenflation.
- Virginians have spent $9,173 more on transportation, $4,210 more on energy, $3,115 more on food, and $5,547 more on shelter on average since January 2021.
- Thanks to Biden’s war on American energy, average gas prices topped record highs of $4.86 per gallon in the state under Biden.
- The average price for a gallon of gas in Virginia currently sits at $3.34, which is $1 higher than when Biden took office.
- Average gas and diesel prices in Virginia both hit new record highs under Biden.
- Under Biden, the median price to buy a home in Virginia has jumped 25.4 percent.
- Virginians have not been spared from the deadly results of Biden’s border crisis.
- In January 2024, a Virginia mother sued the Biden administration for $100 million after her autistic daughter was raped and murdered by an unaccompanied minor released by Border Patrol despite his alleged ties to MS-13.
- On October 12 2023, an unnamed Honduran criminal alien was arrested by ICE officers in Herndon, Viriginia on charges of felony rape by force, threat, or intimidation; abduction by force; and assault on a family member.
- In late August 2023, police in Loudoun County, Virginia, arrested Brandon Estrada de Leon, an illegal alien who overstayed a B-2 tourist visa, for allegedly harboring and abducting a teenager he had raped repeatedly during the course of the year.
- In 2021, fentanyl accounted for 76.4 percent of all Virginia overdose deaths in the state.
- In total, there was a 22.8 percent increase in fentanyl overdoses from 2020 to 2021.
- In 2022, 1,951 Virginians were killed by fentanyl poisoning.
- In Virginia, Black men are nearly two times more likely to die from a fentanyl overdose than white men.
- Virginians are dissatisfied with Biden.
- While Biden carried Virginia by a large margin in 2020, the latest polls from Virginia show Biden and Trump are neck-in-neck.
- Only 35 percent of Virginians approve of Biden and 70 percent believe the country is on the wrong track.
