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Biden Gets Endorsement From Lowe, Black Caucus Chair

State Sen. Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth. North Carolina General Assemble photo.

A key local legislator is putting his support behind Joe Biden in the Democratic primary. 

In a statement, Sen. Paul Lowe says the country is more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Biden, he says, has the leadership to bring all Americans together.

Lowe is a Democrat from Winston-Salem. He's also chairman of the 39-member North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus. He joins U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, who endorsed Biden last year.

Support from the African-American community is essential to the former vice president's frontrunner status. A High Point University poll in November gave Biden the edge among North Carolina's Democratic voters. And despite an eventful winter of debates and a narrowing of the field, subsequent polls have shown him hanging on to the lead.

Early voting in North Carolina is just over three weeks away for the Super Tuesday primary election on March 3rd. 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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