■ President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris teamed up for a health care event in North Carolina.

RALEIGH, N.C. — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris promoted their health care agenda on Tuesday in the battleground state of North Carolina, arguing that Democrats like themselves would preserve access to care while Republicans would reverse gains made over the past decade and a half.

Fourteen years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the White House still sees health care as a winning issue during a campaign in which Biden has sometimes found himself on the defensive when it comes to immigration or the economy.

North Carolina was Biden’s final stop on a tour of battleground states after his State of the Union address this month, which jump-started a travel schedule as the Democratic president makes his case for a second term in a likely rematch with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Afterward, Biden and Harris attended a campaign fundraiser in Raleigh that raised $2.3 million.

“This is the most existential, consequential and important election of our lifetime,” Harris told supporters.