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Watch Live Stream: President Obama Rallies For Hillary Clinton In Fayetteville, Charlotte, North Carolina
The president will head back to the Tar Heel State to make his case for his former secretary of state.
President Obama will head back to North Carolina on Friday for two rallies in support of Hillary Clinton for president, his latest visit to the coveted Tar Heel State.
Obama was just in North Carolina two days ago on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He's become one of Clinton's most important surrogates, with his approval rating north of 50 percent during election season.
His events Friday are at the FSU Plaza at Rudolph Jones Student Center in Fayetteville. The campaign website lists the time as "TBD." His appearance in Charlotte will be at 6 p.m. Eastern time at PNC Music Pavilion.
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North Carolina has been a critical focus in recent days on the campaign trail. It's not hard to see why. The Tar Heel State is considered a "toss up" in nearly every electoral projection map, and Trump currently has a small lead in Real Clear Politics' average of major state polls.
Campaigning for Clinton on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Obama told the crowd, "The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders."
"I want to speak not just to Democrats. I want to speak to Republicans here in North Carolina as well. I am obviously a partisan Democrat. I understand that," Obama said. "But we're not Democrats or Republicans first, we're Americans first, and there's a standard of behavior that we ought to expect of our leaders."
Both Trump and Clinton were in North Carolina on Thursday.
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