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Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Parkland, Florida, on Saturday to address gun safety. Biden’s reelect will launch digital ads on the Affordable Care Act targeting several demographics and will go on the air to reach Latino voters. And the campaign also intends to hire three senior-level staff for the state.
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried told reporters earlier this week that the state party had “complete confirmation that the Biden campaign, as well as national surrogates and national partners, will be investing dollars here.”
Florida was a perennial swing state. But it’s leaned Republican in recent years. Democrats haven’t won Florida at the presidential level since 2012, and their voters’ lackluster turnout in 2022 helped Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis sail to reelection by historic margins. Republicans also outnumber Democrats by almost 850,000 registered active voters. So it remains an open question whether Biden’s campaign will prioritize or invest heavily in Florida, the home state of former President Donald Trump.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign chair, and campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez released a memo in early March, shortly after Super Tuesday, saying the campaign will “invest in key Sun Belt battlegrounds like Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina where Democrats have seen successes in recent years.” But they promised to “seize on” undefined opportunities only in states like Florida, where it claims Trump’s agenda is unpopular.
The Biden campaign this week also launched an initiative to reach Latino voters — one of the most important and influential constituencies in Florida. But it wasn’t among the three states where Harris touched down first to promote the strategy. Florida will be included in the $30 million ad-buy.
And while the campaign’s top officials regularly say they have “multiple pathways” to getting the 270 electoral votes needed for Biden to get reelected, Florida isn’t listed among the six key battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — cited as crucial to getting there….
Note….
One COULD get the impression that with money to burn?
The Biden camapign is pushing Trump and Republicans to spend MORE money they don’t have.?…