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First Lady Michelle Obama will make a pre-election visit to Charlotte Monday.
Details of her visit have not been announced. It will be the first lady’s fifth visit to North Carolina since August.
Her visit is apparently in lieu of her husband’s.
President Obama’s final campaign schedule, released Thursday morning, includes stops in the battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, New Hampshire and Florida — but not North Carolina.
At September’s Democratic National Convention, 65,000 people with credentials for the president’s cancelled speech at Bank of America stadium were told that they would get a chance to see him before the election.
“It fits the trend of the president’s administration that they would leave the state with one final broken promise, we just didn’t think it would be to their own supporters,” said Rachel Adams, a spokeswoman for Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign.
Obama spokesman Cameron French called Michelle Obama’s visit “a clear sign that we have not given up on North Carolina.”
