First Lady Pool Reports of January 26, 2024

FLOTUS POOL REPORT #1 – Raleigh, N.C.

After a visit to Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, First Lady Jill Biden stopped at a fundraising event for the Biden Victory Fund.

The event took place at the home of Kristin and John Replogle in Raleigh, N.C.

Biden spoke in the kitchen in front of a crowd of about 90 people.

"First of all, I'm taking down that barrier," she said to the group who chuckled as she encouraged attendees to draw closer to her at the lectern.

Biden shared the competitive nature of the Tar Heel State during election season, adding how President Joe Biden was one point away from winning the state in 2020.

"This year, our campaign is going to do everything we can to make up that one point and more," Biden said as the crowd cheered.

She mentioned the actions taken under her husband's leadership as president: passing 'the boldest climate legislation in American history," nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, and progress to lower prescription drug prices and a cap on insulin.

"I'm so grateful that Joe is our president during these uncertain and tumultuous times," Biden said.

Biden urged attendees to take into account the stakes of this election, saying how "democracy is on the line" and the impact in North Carolina.

"I want you to remember what it felt like the morning after the election in 2016," she said as some people in the crowd moaned.

"We cannot let that happen again, because I don't to wake up with that feeling of 'oh, we should have done more, we should have done this, we should have done that," Biden said. "We have to begin now."

After her speech of about 12 minutes, Biden left Raleigh and traveled to Columbia, South Carolina for a political event.