While Donald Trump runs his campaign from a sleepy Manhattan Criminal Court seat weekly?
President Biden is mounting a impressive ground game in swing state he must win to keep his job….
Biden & Co. is trying to max out it’s support in tightly polling margins swing states now….
Biden and Democrats HAVE the money for this….
Trump does NOT…..
President Biden‘s campaign is investing in dozens of field offices in some of the nation’s reddest counties, pressing its early money advantage to establish political beachheads in hostile territory.
Why it matters: Biden’s team isn’t under the illusion it can win these rural counties Donald Trump won in 2020. It’s fighting to cut into Republicans’ margins — particularly in swing states such as Wisconsin.
- The goal is to establish a ground presence early in the election cycle and keep rural Biden supporters motivated — while letting voters dismayed by Trump or curious about Biden know they’re not be alone.
Zoom in: Biden’s campaign has opened more than 150 offices and hired more than 400 staffers in the seven battleground states and will have 200 offices and 500 staffers there by the end of May, the campaign says.
- In Wisconsin, Biden now has 46 offices across 42 counties, including 23 where Trump won by double digits in 2020.
- Biden’s strategy still calls for a heavy presence in Wisconsin’s Democrat-heavy population centers, with three field offices in Milwaukee County, the most populous in the state.
- But the president’s team also has offices in places like Rusk County, home to about 14,000 people. Trump trounced Biden by 35% there four years ago, receiving 2,740 more votes.
- That’s the kind of rural-county margin Biden is hoping to reduce at a time when polls have suggested that voter enthusiasm within Biden’s base isn’t as energized as it was in 2020, when he won Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes.
What they’re saying: “The name of the game is to lose by less” in red counties, Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler told Axios.
- “You lose a place by 25 instead of by 35, that can be really vital” in a close battle to win the overall vote in a state, said Dan Kanninen, the Biden campaign’s battleground states director….
I’ve noticed a lot fewer Trump signs and flags this year. Not that I’ve seen a lot of Biden ones either but the MAGA crowd seems to be less vocal than they were in spring summer 2020 when boat parades and anti covid lockdown rallies brought this stuff out in full force.
I was in Galveston, Texas a couple weeks ago. Completely anecdotal but during the drive from Houston and also all around the island I saw exactly one item with Trump’s name/photo on it. It was a t-shirt in one of those beach shops that sells tacky gifts. Sure the city of Houston is blue but Galveston Island is still fairly red and plenty of retirees and RVers who would have had Trump flags and stickers a few years ago flock to that beach
Again completely anecdotal but with all the talk of suburban educated “vote in every election” voters tilting Democrat post Dobbs the Trump campaign seems to be depending on the sometime voters to pull him through and I just don’t see them engaged like I used to.
Trump’s campaign IS in the Big Apple Criminal Court……