'Super Tuesday' primary bringing presidential candidates to NC

With "Super Tuesday" inching closer and North Carolina residents already participating in early voting, Democratic candidates for president are campaigning in the state more and more.

Posted 10:01 p.m. Feb 22, 2020 — Updated 10:46 p.m. Feb 28, 2020

RALEIGH, N.C. — With "Super Tuesday" inching closer and North Carolina residents already participating in early voting, Democratic candidates for president are campaigning in the state more and more.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was recently in Durham for a campaign stop, will be in Goldsboro on Wednesday for a program that will be held at Rev. Dr. William Barber's church. Sanders will take part in a 7 p.m. interfaith Ash Wednesday service and forum at Greenleaf Christian Church.

Former Vice President Joe Biden will hold a rally at St. Augustine's University in Raleigh on Saturday, and his wife, Jill Biden, will attend a community event in Charlotte on Wednesday.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar will make her first campaign stop in North Carolina on Thursday to hold rallies in Raleigh and Greensboro and a town hall-style meeting in Cary that will be televised on Fox News.

Klobuchar also will be in Charlotte on Saturday for a Democratic rally, as will former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. For him, the event – along with a Wilmington rally – bookends rallies he held across the state on the first day of early voting. Saturday will be the last day of early voting in North Carolina, and South Carolina voters also will be heading to the polls on that day.

Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., returns to the state for a get-out-the-vote rally in Raleigh on Saturday.

Not to be outdone, President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Charlotte on March 2, the eve of the primary.

Sanders, Bloomberg and Biden were tied atop the field to win North Carolina's March 3 primary, according to a recent WRAL News poll of likely Democratic voters.

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