President Biden makes first campaign stop in New Hampshire in nearly two years
GOFFSTOWN, NH - President Joe Biden made his first campaign stop to the Granite State in nearly two years, Monday. The president spoke with supporters at a YMCA in Goffstown, New Hampshire about efforts his administration has made to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
"As I said in my state of the union, I'm doing everything I can to lower health care costs to provide people with piece of mind," Mr. Biden said. "Through the inflation reduction act, a law I proposed and signed, and not one Republican voted for it, I might add, we finally beat big pharma. Capped total prescription drug costs for seniors and Medicare at $2,000 a year."
Director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm's College, Neil Levesque, says the president's visit was a thank you to Democrats who wrote him in on the state's primary ballot. Biden did not appear on the ballot in New Hampshire after Democrats tried to move the first in the nation primary to South Carolina.
"Really, he's coming here to thank all the Democrats who wrote his name in when he wasn't on the ballot for the primary," Levesque said.
Biden won New Hampshire in 2020 and St. Anselm polls put him roughly 10 points ahead of his opponent, former President Donald Trump, for the 2024 election in New Hampshire. Still, Levesque says it will be a tight race to capture New Hampshire's four electoral votes. That is why the Granite State is considered a battleground state.
"In New Hampshire, it's going to be a really tight race and I think there are a lot of issues here such as the border, that's not really addressed, that are going to motivate voters on both sides," Levesque said.
