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Obama, Vance, other top surrogates heading to Charlotte area

With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, former President Barack Obama will visit Charlotte Friday evening for a rally in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. The event will be at the Charlotte Convention Center uptown. Doors open at 4 p.m.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are scheduled to kick off an early vote bus tour in the state starting this morning in Charlotte. They’ll hold a press conference at 11:30 and visit a small business at 1 p.m. Rep. Alma Adams, who represents northern Mecklenburg County, Concord and Mint Hill in Congress, will be among the attendees.

Meanwhile, Sen. JD Vance, the GOP nominee for vice president, is scheduled to hold a town hall event at the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport in Union County. That begins at 6:30 pm.

Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.