Biden & Co. KNEW they would lose inn New Hampshire…
Biden admitted the same in public before the primary vote…
This dog thought Biden would come in 3rd….
NOPE…
He came in 5th….
The first 24 hours after the media went batshit crazy with ‘Joe Biden is done ‘ stories...
Those have subsided as Donald Trump helped things with a the Roger Stone/Justice Dept. /Jail time episode and the Amy Klobuchar 3rd place result …
It’s been 48 hours and things have calmed down…
The media is now moved from New Hampshire to looking at Nevada’s caucus next Saturday and South Carolina afterwards…
These two contest’s are in more diverse states and Biden’s poll numbers are STILL at the top in the two states which have more diverse populations…
Against the above we have a Politico piece broadcasting a ‘stepped UP’ and IMPROVED Joe Biden going forward….Haven’t we heard THAT before ?
In separate calls arranged with donors, reporters and surrogates, his campaign leadership emphasized Biden’s support among African American and Latino voters and cast his losses in New Hampshire on Tuesday and in Iowa Feb. 3 as less-than-lethal because of their predominantly white electorates. They also laid out plans to put Biden on television to elevate his national visibility.
Polls, however, are starting to indicate that Biden’s losses in the first two early states are damaging his standing with nonwhite voters.
The first test of the Biden campaign’s theory of his strength comes Feb. 22 in Nevada, where the campaign has boosted its paid-staffer presence from 50 before the Iowa caucus to 80 now. Biden is scheduled to visit the state on Friday and Saturday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, to showcase the campaign’s Latino outreach, and with Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), to underscore Biden’s African American support.
Biden’s campaign is also hoping to score the endorsement of his 16th Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Steven Horsford of Las Vegas. Biden’s visit to the state this weekend coincides with the kickoff of caucus early voting that starts Saturday and ends Tuesday.
Nevada state Sen. Yvanna Cancela, a top adviser to the Biden campaign, said Nevada won’t be a repeat of New Hampshire.
“We knew from the beginning of this contest that Nevada was going to be the first state that has an electorate that matches what the country looks like,” Cancela said, “and the diverse coalition of supporters for the VP reflects his ability to assemble the coalition of voters you need to win the nomination and the presidency.”
On Wednesday, Biden, his wife, Jill, senior adviser Anita Dunn and campaign manager Greg Schultz joined a call to rally major donors to Biden’s campaign. Dunn, who recently assumed a larger role on the campaign, urged the donors to remember that “this is the beginning, not the end, of the primary process” and discussed how the former vice president will be at a greater advantage in the increasingly diverse states of South Carolina and Nevada, according to two people on the call….
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