Rocky Mount small-business owners featured in Biden ads

Two new television ads promoting Democrat Joe Biden for president will feature Rocky Mount entrepreneurs.

Biden's campaign is rolling out four ads focusing on key battleground states: two in North Carolina and one each in Pennsylvania and Arizona.

One North Carolina ad will feature "Kimberly," who founded The Bath Place, a soap production and retail company in Rocky Mount, but shifted her operations to make hand sanitizer during the coronavirus pandemic. In the ad, she will "expresses frustration with [President Donald] Trump prioritizing big corporations," while she struggles to pay her bills and feed her family, according to a press release.

The other ad features Celeste Beatty, who operates a microbrewery in Rocky Mount and shares the impact pandemic has had on her business "because of the current administration's unclear policies." She also will also speak to Biden's experience "as a unifier and a listener," the campaign said.

Biden's campaign is advertising in nine other states as well: Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin.