President Joe Biden’s campaign has a message for impatient Democrats who want to see his campaign build out its operations in the battleground states more visibly and with greater urgency.
That message: Don’t expect us to be Barack Obama.
The Biden reelection campaign is rejecting the political organizing model that Obama used during his campaign for a second term in 2012, in which Obama largely shunned the Democratic National Committee and opted instead to set up his own vast electioneering machine.
Biden advisers, campaign officials and state Democratic leaders tell CNN that the president’s 2024 operation is coming together differently – and Democrats who are pushing for more hiring and more offices faster are missing the point, they say.
“State parties and local organizations were not part of the equation in 2012,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Ray Buckley. “The fact that the president has heavily invested in building up the strength of the state parties versus what happened in the first term of Obama – I think you’re going see the results of that.”
The campaign’s mission to deliver Biden another four years at the White House came into clearer focus after Trump won the New Hampshire primary last week. The Biden team declared that the former president had all but locked up the Republican nomination and announced that the president’s two top West Wing aides would soon be dispatched to the campaign full time.
By Thursday, the Biden campaign had announced state leadership teams in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Arizona – the full roster of its battleground states. Wisconsin and Arizona are currently serving as the campaign’s pilot states for testing out…
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