Biden is building a behemoth of a campaign. Trump at this point seems to be playing catch-up.
(NBC News) PHILADELPHIA President Joe Biden has been scooping up record-making donations and plowing the money into an expanding campaign operation in battleground states that appears to surpass what Donald Trump has built thus far.
Flush with $71 million cash at the end of February more than twice that of Trump's campaign Biden parlayed his fundraising advantage into a hiring spree that now boasts 300 paid staffers across nine states and 100 offices in parts of the country that will decide the 2024 election, according to details provided by the campaign.
Trumps advisers would not disclose staffing levels, but his ground game still seems to be at a nascent stage. His campaign hired state directors in Pennsylvania and Michigan last week, people familiar with the recruitment process said.
Combined, the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee have fewer than five staff members in each of the battleground states, said two Republicans familiar with the committee and the Trump campaigns organizational structures in 2020 and 2024.
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getagrip_already
(14,768 posts)Actual campaign experience, if they are even from the state at all.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Virtually everyone on all the networks says it will be a close election. I dont see it. The state Supreme Court of Arizona gave us the state yesterday.
Think. Again.
(8,199 posts)Lasher
(27,604 posts)Despite the perpetual outlier Rasmussen, Biden has been closing the gap in General election polls. Consider this RCP Average:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden
Trump is still ahead by a meager 0.2% but Biden has been closing the gap.