President Biden begins the serious job of setting up a campaign operation….
Just being President isn’t enough to hold the job….
Ask Donald Trump, eh?
Biden and Democrats Are going to HAVE TO get out their vote with Trump going into the new year slightly ahead of the President in some of the key swing states that will decide the 2024 Presidential election…
Democrats have been over performing since the 2020 election…
They need to keep their voters coming back another time to vote in November …...
Joe Biden’s campaign is installing a top voter turnout operative as its chief of staff.
Sara Schreiber, who most recently led the progressive nonprofit America Votes, comes on as the campaign scales up staffing at headquarters and in the battleground states….
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Schreiber’s hiring comes amid complaints from Democratic officials and strategists that the Biden campaign isn’t expanding its in-state infrastructure quickly enough, especially compared to other recent presidential reelection campaigns. More than a dozen Democratic operatives in battleground states, many of whom were granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly, told POLITICO recently that they worry the sluggish hiring rate slows the rest of the campaign machinery, from building out a coordinated organizing program, to planning for voter protection programs, to hiring more junior staff.
But in the last week, the Biden campaign has named top hires in Nevada, Michigan and South Carolina. And earlier on Thursday, the Biden campaign rolled out a slate of staffers in Wisconsin, including Garren Randolph, who served as a senior adviser to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ campaign and will be Biden’s state campaign manager. Devin Remiker, executive director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and Tanya Bjork, a longtime Wisconsin operative who’s worked on multiple presidential campaigns, will both be senior advisers.
That still leaves Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania without Biden campaign staffers, but Democratic operatives in those states expect the campaign to announce additional aides in the coming weeks….
Pew says Biden approval is now at a lowly 33%.
Political Wire refers to it as “ astonishingly low.”
Even among Democrats ,his approval is down to 61%.
I don’t know what poll they’re citing, but National Review’s newsletter say that Trump leads Biden in all seven Battleground states (Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin — and presumably Florida).
Sorry: North Carolina
InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
🇺🇲 2024 GE: Bloomberg/Morning Consult
WISCONSIN
Trump 45% (+4)
Biden 41%
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GEORGIA
Trump 49% (+6)
Biden 43%
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MICHIGAN
Trump 46% (+4)
Biden 42%
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PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 46% (+2)
Biden 44%
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NEVADA
Trump 47% (+3)
Biden 44%
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NORTH CAROLINA
Trump 49% (+9)
Biden 40%
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ARIZONA
Trump 46% (+4)
Biden 42%
11/27-12/01 | 4,935 RV | MoE: ±1%
Dig deeper, e.g. by age or views of the economy and it looks even worse:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-us-election-key-state-voter-polling/december-2023-poll/
And those are razor-thin margins.
2020 Pres. General Election (Dave Leip)
state D EV R EV Total vote Dmargin D% margin D% R% oth%
Michigan 16 0 5,547,186 154,181 +2.78% 50.55% 47.77% 1.68%
Nevada 6 0 1,405,376 33,596 +2.39% 50.06% 47.67% 2.28%
Pennsylvania 20 0 6,940,449 82,166 +1.18% 49.87% 48.69% 1.44%
Wisconsin 10 0 3,298,041 20,682 +0.63% 49.45% 48.82% 1.73%
Arizona 11 0 3,397,388 10,457 +0.31% 49.22% 48.91% 1.87%
Georgia 16 0 4,999,960 11,779 +0.24% 49.47% 49.24% 1.29%
North Carolina 0 15 5,524,804 -74,483 -1.35% 48.59% 49.93% 1.48%
Florida 0 29 11,091,758 -371,686 -3.35% 47.76% 51.11% 1.14%
Texas 0 38 11,325,286 -631,221 -5.57% 46.44% 52.01% 1.55%
North Carolina and surprising Georgia look tough for Biden….
Georgia probably less so since the criminal trial will be a feature film running next year….
The other state’s I’m guessing will come back to Biden when voters who WILL actually vote get serious.
Just MY feeling…..
Of course Jack ALWAYS reminds me that polls this far out are ‘meaningless?’
Guys?
I’m gonna add another side to this….
It IS MY view that the US Economy WILL actually seem BETTER to Americans by the coming summer….
As I pointed out a short time ago?
Ole Jerome and Co. ARE on the way to helping Biden with possible interest rate cuts…..
Furthermore?
Conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe WILL most probabaly be OVER in a few months….
THAT will also play FOR increased poll numbers for Biden….
I KNOW you’ll knock me for this Jack….
No problem….
Keith probably won’t…..
I have had my issues with Joe Biden just Like I had them with Obama…
BUT?
I and a LOT of those who are doubtful in todays polls WILL lineup and vote FOR Ole Joe….
because in the end?
We LOVE America and we have to join the judges in STOPPING a onetime fuck up FROM getting a chance to fuck things up EVEN MORE…
I saw that…..
I have pointed out here that Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton does NOT like campaigning….
He IS a Good President….
A HUGE example of why someone like Trump has NO business being President….
But?
As I point out in this post?
To KEEP his day job?
He NEEDS to go out and ask people for their VOTE….
There are reports that Biden is pissed because people do NOT realise ALL the stuff he has done for them?
Yo Joe?
Donald Trump ain’t doing shit for them…
BUT?
He LOVES the crowds …
He’s a born Entertainer …
And THAT appeals to WingNuts and others….
Joseph R. Biden IS going to have to work for the votes he needs…
That means MORE FaceTime before voters…
Now?
I FIRMLY believe that Joe Biden will still be President on Fed. 1 2025….
Donald Trump IS coming apart right before I eyes ….
Yes…
He’s got those who WILL vote for him even if he was interned in a prison cell….
Bull Shit….
Americans ARE stupid….
But NOT THAT stupid ….
91 criminal charges in two state courts and two federal courts….
Numerous side civil suits…
One that WILL cost him HUNDREDS of Millions of dollars after ALL appeals are exhausted….
And judges ACROSS the court , except for one in Florida ain’t taking any of Trump’s shit like others have…
Donald Trump IS a hurtin Man….
Scared and cornered…
Talking about ‘vengeance ‘….
Not governance…
That IS something he says he’ll give up ripping to shreads….
Bush II and Obama took dips at the end of 3 years old I believe…
They got back for 2.0…
And they didn’t have a knucklehead helping them….