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President Joe Biden spoke to supporters at a campaign event at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds on Friday, hours after the first presidential debate in Atlanta.

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Join me in welcoming our guest of honor to the State of North Carolina, the president of the United States. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, North Car. I, I had trouble with my mom looking down to heaven. If I don't say, please excuse my back. I apologize. It's good. Oh, my bad there. Thank you. Introduction. We had a wonderful time spending time with your sons, Christy and Carter gonna grow up to be incredible young men. You have been really impressed the way they talked about their dad, how informed they were about what was going on? I was truly impressed and I ate two hamburgers. A special thanks to Roy and Chris Cooper. Roy. You've been a great girl. It makes it all the more important that North Carolina elect a great government replace you, Josh Stein and I re elected again with your help. I want you to know that I'm not promising not to take Roy away from North Carolina. Yeah. And thanks to all the state and local leaders here today, the great musicians and entertainers who performed earlier. Folks. Let me tell you why I'm here in North Carolina. I'm here for what? So? Ok, I'm here in North Carolina for one reason because I intend to win this state in November. You see that? I think we are. Roy is right. We win here, we win the election and this how we're gonna do it. We gonna stand up for the women of America, Robby Ways, the law of the land. We're gonna stand up for the right to vote. We're standing for Medicare and Social security. We're gonna fight for childcare and paid leave. And over there we're gonna keep blowing across for Christian dogs, not just for seniors, but for every single American, we're gonna keep protecting the Affordable Care Act, which is why more than 40 million Americans have health insurance. Today, we're gonna protect our Children and get the weapons of war off our streets. We will provide clean drinking water, affordable high speed internet, quality education for every child in America. We're gonna secure our border and protect legal immigration. And unlike the other guy, we're gonna stand up to dictators like Putin America bows to no one, no one, no one ever. Ok, folks. And we're going to keep dealing with the climate crisis. More than anything we're going to preserve, protect and defend our democracy. It was more than anything else. That is what is the stake in America? This election, your freedom, your democracy. America itself is at stake. My folks, I don't know what you did last night, but I spent 90 stage, 90 minutes on the stage and debating the guy who has the morals of an alley cat. Did you see Trump last night? My guess he said, I mean, it sincerely a new record for the most lies told in a single debate. He lied about the great economy he created. He lied about the pandemic. He boxed killing millions of people. He closed businesses, he closed schools, losing their homes, people all over this country. America was flat on his back. So I told Trump that it was just one of two presidents in American history who left office with fewer jobs than he started. Herbert Hoover was the other one. That's why I called Donald Herbert Hoover Trump. Then he lied about how great he was for veterans. I told him how he had called a veteran and given their lives in the country in World war one and refused to go to the grave sites. He called them suckers and losers to try to deny it. But let me ask you, are you going to believe a four star Marine General? His own former chief of staff, John Kelly. He said, he said that or disgrace to beating a lying Donald Trump. My son was one of those people, not a woman to be folks. Look, how about the fact that 44? That's ok. The fact that 40 out of his 44 top advisers, including the vice president aren't supporting him. This time around the people know him. Best 40 of them said I will not support the man. I work for this time around. He tells you a lot about the person who knows him. Look, he lied about how great he was on crime. I had to remind him that he oversaw a record increase in murder rates in 2020. On my watch, Violent Crime has hit a 50 year low and then I point it out, but the only we can make a criminal on stage last night was Donald Trump. When I thought about his 34 felony convictions, his sexual assault on a woman in a public place has been fined $400 million for business fraud. I thought to myself, Donald Trump isn't just a convicted felon. Donald Trump is a one man crime. Wait, he's got more trials. Is that your trash coming up? Oh, time for that good. The thing that bothers me, maybe most about him. He has no respect for women or the law. He doesn't. And then his biggest lie, he lied about how he had nothing to do with the insurrection of January 6 guys. We watch it on television. We saw thousands in his direction attack the capitol. We saw police being attacked, the capitol being ransacked the mob hunting for speaker Pelosi gallows literally set up for Mike Pence. And then he told him as he sat in the dining room, one guy, one the private dining one door of my oval office. He sat there for three hours watching the TV. He did not a single thing to stop it. Nothing, nothing at all and not. And now he wants to pardon all those convicted and folks for all his lies. We did love some, we learned some important truths about Donald Trump last night. You already still proud of being the person who killed Roe V. Wade. We learned, we learned he's still proud about the pain and cold is inflicted on America's women. We learn, he still believes that politicians, not doctors and women should make decisions about the women's health. If he's elected again and the migrant republicans pass a national ban on abortion. He will sign it. Donald Trump says he thinks overturning Roe V Wade was a beautiful thing. I think it was a nightmare. No, I really mean it, I'm making it and I made it clear again last night. If you elect me and Kamala, you give us a democratic commerce. We will make Robie Wade the law of the land again. He continued to lie. He said I quadruple taxes. Where the hell has he been? Which is a simple lie. I didn't raise a tax on anyone in America that made less than $400,000 a year. And I won't have my second term either. We are, we had the largest deficit of any president in four years because the $2 trillion tax cut to the super wealthy. We learned that Trump wants to give another giant tax cut for the very wealthy and the biggest corporations this time $5 trillion not a joke. $5 trillion to pay for it. He's gonna cut Medicare and social security. He'll cut health care. Oh, millions of working and middle class Americans all pay for another tax cut for the very wealthy. Then that insult to injury. He wants to raise taxes on the average family 2500 a year. What amounts to a new 10% sale tax on all products imported in America? That's his new plan for food, coffee, candy bars and so much more. It's gonna raise the tax on the average family $2500 a year. The most dangerous thing though we learned that Donald Trump will not respect this year's election outcome. It's still not his acting the last time out. But think about it, every corner man ruled that it was a fair election. He's still denying it still telling lies three times. Trump was asked last night by the moderators would, do you respect the election result if he lost this time? Three times, he refused to answer three times folks, Donald Trump refused to accept the results of 2020. We all saw what happened on January the sixth. It's a direct consequence of that. It was an international embarrassment by the way, as I go to these international meetings I know every major world leader and I, and I literally, because I've been around as you had noticed, but they asked me, do you really mean this is that, is this real? It caused a constitutional crisis and international embarrassment. Now, Trump is making it clear that he doesn't win this time. There will be in his words, bloodshed close. No pressure has ever said anything like that. No president, his words not mine. We're gonna let Donald Trump attack our democracy again. I don't think so. F we've come a long way from the mess that Donald Trump left us. It came out of the pandemic. We're a long way from what Donald Trump telling us to inject bleach in our skin. That COVID is not that dangerous. Today, we have the strongest economy in the world without exception, 15 million new jobs, 800,000 manufacturing jobs unemployment under 4% for a record two years in a row. Historic black and Hispanic unemployment down, historic creation of small business and black and all communities across the nation, particularly in rural areas. Historic economic growth, inflation has dropped from 9% to 3 and it's still going down. I know we have more to do to get prices down. We have to take on corporate greed. They're making twice the profit. They were before the pandemic. We got to make housing more affordable. My chin make the tax code there. 16 Nobel winners of the economic Nobel prize. I looked at my economy economic plan this week, they said issued a report and Trump's plan. Here's what they concluded. They said that my plan would continue to grow the economy and bring down inflation 16 Nobel warriors. And that Trump's plan would send the nation into recession and inflation is soaring through the roof. I'll take my word for it. Folks. Let me close with this. I know. I'm not a young man. Stay the, I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't deba debate as well as I used to. I do know, I know how to tell the truth. I know. I know. I know rights are wrong. Yes. So I know how to do this child to get things done. I know like millions of Americans know when you get knocked down, you get back up now in a t to take our economy in the depths of pandemic. This is where it is today. The strongest economy in the world. I know it will take to bring this economy to everybody. I know it will take to rally the world to stand up against Putin and defend freedom, not yield to. And I know it would take to keep the world safe and free for the years ahead. Folks. I give you my words and Biden, I would not be running again if I didn't believe with all my heart and soul. I can do this job. The stakes are too high, the stakes are too high. Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom is a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat for everything America stands for. He doesn't understand what I think all of you do. America is the finest and most unique nation in the world, the only nation in the world. And I mean, it sincerely, it's a fact statement, not a hyper hyperbolic statement. It's fact, we're the only nation in the world built on an idea. All the nations built on ethnicity, geography, and other religion. But we're built on an idea and we're all created equal preserved. Begly throughout our life, we've never fully lived up with Robbie Dam in the year 2024 just two years, just two years before the 250 anniversary of our declaration of independence that I'll let Donald Trump walk away from it. I give you my word. I give my word to Biden. We're still a nation. I believe we're still a nation that believes in honesty and decency in treating people with respect. I still believe we're a nation that gives everyone a fair shot and leaves nobody behind. It still makes me just hint no safe harbor and we're still the beacon of the world. We can never give up. What makes America America. Donald Trump is motivated by revenge and retribution, will revenge and retribution never build a damn thing. You and I, we Americans are a nation of hope, optimism with possibilities. That's what always build America. That's gonna continue to build America today. The choice in this election is simple. Donald Trump will destroy our democracy. I will defend it. So first, what we think Donald Trump is the first president. I've heard of this stood up there running for president having been 11 term saying America is a failing nation. Where the hell does he think he is failing? I don't know if the president wouldn't trade places with America in a heartbeat. He's dead wrong. America not to lose the nation. America is winning. As I stand here today, I can honestly say I've never more optimistic about American future in my whole career. You just have to remember who we are. We're the United States of America. There is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity. Nothing. Can we act together? We've got it and may God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Let's go get it. She.

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A 17-year-old was arrested Thursday in connection to the shooting death of an 18-year-old on June 7 at a Food Lion in Goldsboro.

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WASHINGTON (AP) â The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge used in hundreds of prosecutions and also faced by former President Donald Trump.

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Friday, June 28, 2024 -- North Carolina legislators, like other state officials, take an oath to "bear true allegiance" to the State Constitution. That's a serious obligation - not an invitation to frivolous and selfish manipulation.

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The Fayetteville Fire Department responded to a large fire at a well-known funeral home on Thursday night.

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On Thursday, District Court Judge Caitlin Evans read Avantae Deven her charges in a Cumberland County courtroom. Deven could face the death penalty if convicted on murder charges.

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Triangle Food Guy Sean Lennard has details about new restaurants opening in the Triangle.

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The insurance industry claims they're losing money insuring homes in North Carolina, so it's not entirely surprising companies are taking a closer look at the properties they cover. But it's the way this is being done that has some so angry.

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Former school resource officer Dannya Tavarez is under investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation for allegations she assaulted a Selma teacher with a Taser.

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The veto overrides come as state lawmakers are also voting on new constitutional amendments to put on the ballot this fall, plus other last-minute legislative priorities as the 2024 session winds down.

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A North Carolina man was sentenced to prison for assaulting police officers with a flag pole in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building. According to the U.S. Justice Department, 61-year-old Anthony Mastanduno was sentenced to nearly five years in prison, and a two-year supervised release after pleading guilty.

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Each week, we'll post a new weekly table of prices for 11 staple grocery items to help you compare across multiple Triangle area stores.

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The shark bit the 14-year-old boy on Sunday afternoon at 484 New River Inlet Road.

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Kaylee Stavlas is the Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2024 winner!

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Celebrate Independence Day July 4 and the weekend leading up to it with this list of festivals, fireworks, parades and more.



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It's been a hot summer in North Carolina, so your bill will increase -- making it even more important to make some of these cool, cost-saving changes.

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