His campaign is now pointed at Donald Trump for the general election…..
Joe Biden appointed a new campaign manager to lead his campaign, capping more than a month of rumors — denied by senior advisers — that a leadership change was in the offing.
Biden’s decision to replace Greg Schultz with Jen O’Malley Dillon comes at an unorthodox time — after a string of wins across the country resuscitated his wounded campaign and made him a frontrunner again.
O’Malley Dillon, 43, most recently managed Beto O’Rourke’s failed campaign for president and played a role in his endorsement of Biden in Texas, a source familiar with the campaign said. She also served as deputy campaign manager for Obama’s 2012 reelection effort and, before that, was the Democratic National Committee’s executive director during Obama’s first term. The news was first reported by the Washington Post.
Schultz will remain with the campaign and “turn his focus to organizational planning for the general election and continuing to bolster the campaign’s external outreach,” according to a Biden campaign statement.
While the timing of the news was a surprise to allies of the campaign, the replacement of Schultz wasn’t. The campaign had been beset with operational problems in the early stages, from poor fundraising to ground-game stumbles that led to big defeats in the first three early states.
Some within the campaign questioned the pressure to blame Biden’s string of poor early state showings on the campaign manager instead of the candidate, whose lackluster debate performances and speeches haunted him in New Hampshire and Iowa, the first two early states where retail politics is a must.
Complicating Schultz‘s job, Biden was less inclined to listen to him than his chief adviser, Anita Dunn. Dunn took over some of the campaign’s operations from Schultz before the New Hampshire primary and is now set to return as Biden’s senior adviser.
O’Malley Dillon served in an advisory capacity during the Feb. 20 Nevada caucuses.
“I’m not going anywhere,” Schultz told POLITICO on the day before the caucuses, when asked about rumors O’Malley Dillon would replace him. “I don’t know where these rumors are coming from.”
Prior to the Biden campaign, Schultz headed up Barack Obama’s campaign in the crucial swing state of Ohio, which the president won twice. His counterpart in Florida, Steve Schale, is now the head of the Unite The Country super PAC, and has long expressed reservations about the behind-the-scenes efforts to unseat Schultz.
Schale recalls how Schultz in 2018 had discussed a potential Biden bid and said that Biden would win the nomination if he made it to South Carolina’s Feb. 29primary, where black voters would elevate his candidacy — a prediction that came true.
“A lot of these people who have it out for Greg have no idea what they’re talking about,” Schale said.
Before Biden could even take the stage on South Carolina’s primary night, talk again circulated that Schultz had to go — especially after House Majority Whip James Clyburn, whose endorsement in South Carolina helped propel Biden, criticized the campaign.
But the campaign again beat back the rumors as unfounded, and Clyburn walked back his remarks….
“In my administration we will lead with science”
–Joe Biden March 12, 2020
Can’t wait to vote for someone who says that instead of “windmill noise causes cancer” and “let’s nuke the hurricanes”
according to Bernie Sanders once, orgasms give women cancer.
(the Bloomberg ads would have been great…)
Well I certainly won’t vote for Sanders this fall then.
He did also say that almost 50 years ago whereas Trump spouts conspiracy theories to this day, with little to no push back from Republicans.
At least it’s obvious Bernie has had experience with a woman having an organism.
maybe a microorganism?
Or maybe he simply was talking about an issue he was very familiar with as many men have been over the years.
I HAVE said ALL along….
Donald Trump will NOT earn a second term…
That may be True James, but unfortunately it took a real crisis to really wake up the other half of Americans to Donald Trumps Shit…he still will get 42% support in the election if not more…the Republican Party is really fucked up, the Democrats seem to be a mess, but not really, a little healthy division and debate from the campaign is actually what things are in real life, not everyone agrees with everyone else all the time, but in the Trump Republican World, if you don’t agree with Trump, your a bad guy/gal…never seen a party so united, but at the same time once the top can’t hold it together, the infighting and civil war in the Republican party will make the Democratic disagreements seem like a Great Awakening Love Fest…lol
I understand that most if not ALL Trump supporters would go off the cliff with him…
But?
As I have pointed out before….
The economy will suffer way longer then the peak virus cases
Trump ‘s economy trade wars will join the virus economic damage
Trump’s serial lying IS something Biden and Democrats will run against…
Trump HIMSELF tends to screw himself in public like the virus Oval Office debacle …
ALL of the above has brought out Democrats to vote in 2018 and during these primaries in almost record numbers…
He won by 70,000 votes…
With these primary numbers ?
That margin should be beaten….
Mitch McConnell has adjourned the Senate without considering the House virus response package.
Is there any excuse for this? The economic impact will be severe if we don’t act quickly. The Republican Administration is a total shit show.
And just think a scant two days ago this site was all aflame because Joe Biden told some Trump supporters he was full f shot(he was).
Here in the midst of a national emergency the Rep leader of the Senate takes a” break.”
“Disgraceful “is the only word.
Give me a President who leads with science and occasionally argues with an asshole who lies about his record over this Republican nightmare!
Yes Jack, it isn’t only that gun nut who’s full of shit.
Trump just blamed Obama for the lack of CDC testing kits.
Trump is an existential threat to our Nation. A little blunt talk is required along with visuals like ripping up his speeches.,