President Biden will travel to at least four states in a week on the heels of his State of the Union address, with stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Hampshire and Michigan to mark what his campaign is calling a March \u201cMonth of Action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden is expected to continue the fierce attacks he began Thursday in prime time on his predecessor Donald Trump, whom he attacked for representing the darkest parts of human nature, for \u201cbowing down to a Russian leader\u201d by threatening to stop funding European defense, and for attempting to \u201cbury the truth\u201d of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy, a future based on core values that have defined America: honesty, decency, dignity, equality, to respect everyone, to give everyone a fair shot, to give hate no safe harbor,\u201d Biden said. \u201cNow other people my age see it differently, the American story of resentment, revenge and retribution. That\u2019s not me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden will begin Friday afternoon in the Philadelphia area, followed by an event in the Atlanta area on Saturday. He will appear Monday in New Hampshire and then Thursday in Michigan, with an event in Saginaw that was first reported by the Detroit News. More stops may be added.<\/p>\n
The heavy schedule will be accompanied by a series of campaign announcements of office openings, volunteer opportunities and coalition groups meant to trigger the involvement of Biden supporters in the eight targeted swing states where the campaign is operating.<\/p>\n
Additional travel is expected to be announced for first lady Jill Biden, who traveled to Wisconsin last weekend. Vice President Harris will travel to Phoenix on Friday for an official visit before heading to Las Vegas on Saturday for a campaign stop, with a particular focus on reaching Latino voters \u2014 a critical constituency for the president that has shown signs of drifting away from him.<\/p>\n
Biden will also appear at a March 28 fundraiser with former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, along with comedian Stephen Colbert, who will moderate the discussion.<\/p>\n
Cabinet officials and senior White House officials will also fan out across this country this month to tout Biden\u2019s agenda. Officials will travel to liberal and conservative states, and a White House official say they will highlight the \u201cclear contrast between competing visions for the country,\u201d even as they appear in their official capacity as administration officials.<\/p>\n
Among the trips: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will visit Arizona for the National Farmers Union Annual Conference, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will go to Philadelphia to highlight bridge repairs funded by bipartisan infrastructure law, and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will travel throughout Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan to discuss Biden\u2019s efforts to lower costs and create jobs.<\/p>\n
The Biden campaign has telegraphed a desire to use the end of the Republican primaries as a way of resetting the race. Biden was trailing his likely challenger, former president Donald Trump, in the February average of polls, with a significant share of even the president\u2019s own supporters expressing concern over his age and ability to manage the job of president.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we jump into March, as we come out of Super Tuesday and the president\u2019s State of the Union in the next couple of weeks, it will be a real opportunity to just remind voters of just what that choice, how important and how critical this election is, and really what everyone can do to get on board,\u201d campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez told progressive volunteers in a call late last month.<\/p>\n
New swing-state advertising from the campaign and outside groups is also expected in the coming weeks and months. Democrats focused on the presidential campaign have long argued that the polling will reset once voters accept the reality that Trump and Biden are once again their major party choices.<\/p>\n
The Biden campaign has focused its spending and organizing efforts on eight states so far this cycle. They include three Great Lakes states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), two Sun Belt states (Nevada, Arizona), two southern states (Georgia, North Carolina) and New Hampshire. Future Forward, a super PAC supporting Biden, has also made ad reservations in the Omaha media market, where a single electoral college vote will be up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Trump is also expected in Georgia on Saturday, marking the second time in recent weeks the two candidates will appear not far from each other. At the end of February, both Biden and Trump were only 300 miles apart as they visited the U.S.-Mexico border and blamed one another for the country\u2019s immigration problems.<\/p>\n
The visit to Michigan follows Biden\u2019s victory in the state\u2019s primary, even though more than 100,000 people voted \u201cuncommitted\u201d to protest Biden\u2019s handling of the Israel-Gaza war. Michigan has a substantial population of Muslim and Arab Americans, and leaders have warned Biden\u2019s support among those communities has fallen dramatically.<\/p>\n
Biden visited the state last month to meet with United Auto Workers union workers and Black voters, studiously avoiding any interaction with the large Arab American community in the state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
President Biden will travel to at least four states in a week on the heels of his State of the Union address, with stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Hampshire and Michigan to mark what his campaign is calling a March \u201cMonth of Action.\u201d Biden is expected to continue the fierce attacks he began Thursday in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}