Posted on 05/17/2020 2:45:28 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Former Vice President and the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is looking to expand the number of swing states in play in this November’s election, targeting Republican-leaning states in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump.
Alongside traditional battleground states like Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and New Hampshire – the former three of which Trump won in 2016 – the Biden presidential campaign believes it can bring traditionally reliable GOP states into play, like Texas, Georgia, and Arizona, which hold a combined 65 electoral votes, or nearly a quarter of the 270 needed to win the election.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, a Biden campaign manager, told reporters Friday that the campaign would be focused both on winning back Democratic-leaning states which Trump flipped in 2016 – like Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania – as well as traditional battleground states like Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio.
But O’Malley Dillon added that the campaign is also eyeing Republican strongholds like Texas, Georgia, and Arizona to broaden the electoral map in play.
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Nevada is going to be in an almost unprecedented horrifically bad place if they’re still not fully open by November. I doubt they’ll be very enthusiastic about pro-shutdown candidates.
Six months till the election, a lifetime in politics. Polls done now are virtually worthless.
The rats have a real quandary on their hands: who to run? Slow, mumbling Joe sure ain’t it.
The idea of Joe ‘flipping’ any state is truly hilarious and pathetic. The folks coaching Joe need to be real careful lest they be accused of senior abuse. IMHO, every time they let him speak it’s senior abuse.
Andrew Cuomo, the elder killer, will come to mind. Maybe he’ll even send a Covid-19 case to stay with Joe in his basement.
Inherent in that is who has the better plan to bring the economy back. He can win that argument straight up and has the track record to prove it.
Good point. He very well may do it even in his retard state of mind. The governors are burning the states to the ground for a reason: BLAME TRUMP.
Well let's hope so. Trump has to run on his record - declining economy, 15%-plus unemployment, massive deficit, Covid, all the rest. All Biden has to do is claim his plan would have done better and whatever vague plan he puts forth to recover will be better than Trump's. Both claims are impossible to prove true or false.
Texas, Arizona and Georgia? LOL!
No, that's not a distraction. That was the main source of independent votes in 2016 and will be even more important this time. That said, he will have to run on the getting the old jobs back versus the Dems promising an all new economy.
Trump was pro-shut down before becoming pro-open. Don't think the Democrats won't remind people of that.
Of course it will.
That said, he will have to run on the getting the old jobs back versus the Dems promising an all new economy.
And may the best promises win.
LOL
Great plan Joe. Stick to it...
(gawd awful plan, but it’ll keep him from doing anything wise)
Some Dems were promising to tear down the wall, but Biden won't be that stupid.
Texas and Georgia are definite LOLs! Arizona he has a chance. A slim chance but a chance.
FLIP THIS, FAST FINGERS!
Ya... the red states will be flippin’ sumptin’ back.
That was four years ago. Now I would suspect that the economy, or what's left of it, and Covid is what's on everyone's minds.
“scared to death of Biden”
Now I dont know who your are referring to, but I am the last person “Scared” to death of Joe Biden.
Now for the democRATS? You bet they are scared to death of him. When he is hauled back out of his coffin again, the gaff machine will be in full bore.
I doubt very much he will be the nominee, UNLESS, they can somehow manage to keep him IN his coffin till after the convention.
He’ll still be believing that as the black widow with eight cankles is wrapping him up in Ft Marcy Park and getting ready to dine. I’m still betting Cankles has some kind of a scheme to sneak in. I hope so. That will make the Bernie autists so... “happy”. LMAO
If Biden really is trying to flip Arizona and North Carolina, does that mean he's written off Wisconsin and Michigan?
Jen O’Malley Dillon
Honey, make up your mind. You want to go formal, call yourself Jennifer O'Malley Dillon. You want informal, go with Jen O'Malley or Jen Dillon. Stop messing with people's heads.
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