Biden campaign clings to hope in three states while keeping door open for Harris
By
Naomi Lim
July 11, 2024 1:57 pm
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President Joe Biden‘s campaign remains confident he has a path to reelection, with his “clearest” stepping stones back to the White House this November being Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
In a memo obtained by the Washington Examiner, Biden campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillon and campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez acknowledged “increased anxiety” after the president’s debate against former President Donald Trump last month. But the pair contended it has not been followed by “a drastic shift in vote share.”
“The movement we have seen, while real, is not a sea-change in the state of the race — while some of this movement was from undecided voters to Trump, much of the movement was driven by historically Democratic constituencies moving to undecided,” O’Malley Dillon and Chavez Rodriguez wrote. “These voters do not like Donald Trump. In internal polling, our post-debate net favorability is 20 percentage points higher than Trump’s among these voters. These voters have always been core persuasion targets for the campaign and we have a very real path to consolidating their support since they are not considering Trump as an alternative.”
At the same time, O’Malley Dillon and Chavez Rodriguez conceded Biden was not ahead in the so-called blue wall states, describing polling as “within the margin-of-error.”
The Biden campaign did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment on a New York Times report Thursday that the team is privately polling how Vice President Kamala Harris would perform against Trump if Biden does heed calls for him to stand down as the 2024 Democratic nominee.
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