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Dulcinea

(6,651 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:22 AM Apr 10

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.

Trump’s 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 campaign’s organizational structures in 2020 and 2024.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-building-behemoth-campaign-trump-220431572.html?.tsrc=940%2619908-1202929-20240410-0&segment_id&bt_user_id=1YPM%2FN2XsG6X2s5TYVg2%2BilnQhQQ6Kzk1JVYuSRTH%2FyPqF0pwAKEew5jk0b08GSW&bt_ts=1712752906574

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Biden is building a behemoth of a campaign. Trump at this point seems to be playing catch-up. (Original Post) Dulcinea Apr 10 OP
And chances are, those staffers are cronys with little getagrip_already Apr 10 #1
And yet wryter2000 Apr 10 #2
Go Joe!!! 🌊 !!! Think. Again. Apr 10 #3
This is being reflected in the polls. Lasher Apr 10 #4

getagrip_already

(14,768 posts)
1. And chances are, those staffers are cronys with little
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:26 AM
Apr 10

Actual campaign experience, if they are even from the state at all.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
2. And yet
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:29 AM
Apr 10

Virtually everyone on all the networks says it will be a close election. I don’t see it. The state Supreme Court of Arizona gave us the state yesterday.

Lasher

(27,604 posts)
4. This is being reflected in the polls.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:14 PM
Apr 10

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.

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