Biden to hold post-debate rally in North Carolina with Fat Joe, E-40

President Biden will hold a rally in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday alongside celebrities Fat Joe and E-40 for his first campaign stop after the presidential debate.

The president left the CNN debate in Atlanta to head to North Carolina and a campaign official described the rally as Biden “riding the momentum of [his] decisive win against Donald Trump in the first presidential debate.”

He will hold his campaign rally alongside artist Fat Joe and musician E-40, who will each perform for the crowd. He will also be joined by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) and attorney general Josh Stein (D).

The president has visited North Carolina, which is a state that former President Trump won in 2020, three times already this cycle. The Biden campaig.n is eying the state as a flip from red to blue this cycle.

Also on Friday, vice president Harris will campaign in Las Vegas.

Nevada, which Biden won in 2020, is a critical swing state for him to win again this cycle. Biden and Harris are focusing on essential voting blocks, Black voters and Latino voters, with their campaign stops on Friday.

The debate on Thursday night left some Biden allies describing it as a “nightmare” for Democrats and Biden’s performance “political suicide.” Some Democratic operatives and political pundits also suggested that there are conversations happening about Biden stepping aside before November’s election.

The president’s voice appeared horse and he started off to a slow start, which included moments of tripping up his sentences and garbling answers. The White House attributed the slow start to a cold.