Keep it coming!……
Gone is the ‘Sleepy Joe’ Senator thing ….
Joe Biden’s campaign — long criticized for its sleepy wind-up — is starting to let it rip.
Coming off of the president’s forceful State of the Union, senior Biden campaign officials on Friday rolled out a $30 million ad buy and new campaign travel stops. The announcements were designed to drive home the aggressive posture Biden is adopting as the general election contest with former President Donald Trump begins.
In what it has dubbed a “Month of Action,” the Biden campaign announced that the president, Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and second gentlemen Doug Emhoff will stump in every battleground state in March, kicking off with Biden’s events in Pennsylvania and Georgia on Friday and Saturday. Biden will also appear in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Michigan next week, while Harris will head to Arizona and Nevada. The campaign is also hiring 350 new staffers and opening 100 campaign offices across swing states over the next month.
Notably, it will start a six-week, $30 million TV and digital ad buy on Saturday, aimed at drawing out the “full-throated” contrast between Biden’s vision for “where the country can go” against “Donald Trump’s dark, dangerous and chaotic vision for the country,” said campaign communications director Michael Tyler on a call with reporters Friday morning. The ads will target battleground states, as well as Black and Latino-focused outlets and channels.
It’s part of a broader strategy to bury Trump in non-stop spending, made possible through Biden’s significant fundraising advantage. And while the barrage is notable for its timing — months earlier than allies for President Barack Obama started attacking then-candidate Mitt Romney in May 2012 — it also stands out for the reassurance it is providing to anxious Democrats, at least in the current moment….
Susan Glasser: “The result was a most unusual State of the Union—partisan, shouty, and even, at times, a bit rowdy. What a contrast to the usual hoary clichés and bipartisan applause lines. Democrats loved it; Republicans looked on, squirming in their seats as if they’d accidentally been forced to sit through the Democratic National Convention.”
“Congress, it turns out, is an appealing backdrop for a campaign rally. And there is nothing that this President likes more than to extol the virtues of infrastructure spending and union manufacturing jobs before a cheering crowd in the packed House chamber. Biden wasn’t exactly a happy warrior on Thursday night, but he was a forceful one.”
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President Biden spoke to Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) after the State of the Union address:
NADLER: Nobody’s gonna talk about cognitively impaired now!
BIDEN: I kinda wish sometimes I was cognitively impaired.
image…REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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I can stop complaining about Biden NOT going out and working to KEEP his job….
And people need to stop talking about a Biden replacement cause he’s tooooo old……
The Trump campaign released an ad Saturday drawing attention to several times President Biden has stumbled or fallen, harping on his age hours after the incumbent’s campaign unveiled a spot promoting the president’s age as an asset.
The Trump ad, titled “Not a Young Guy,” begins with the same opening footage from the Biden campaign ad, with the president telling the camera, “Look, I’m not a young guy.”
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