Democratic candidate Joe Biden's campaign is betting on grabbing up to 16 Republicans in next November's US presidential election. The campaign will begin hiring employees for the required work on the ground early next month.
Campaign manager Jane O'Malley Dillon told reporters about the campaign strategy that President Donald Trump's handling of the Coruna virus contributed to a raging competition in some states like never before, such as Arizona, Texas and Georgia that were not pro-Democrats.
President Trump has benefits, including fundraising and digital campaign activism, and his team has been working for months on plans to increase support for him in pro-democracy states.
Technical difficulties
Biden embarked on his campaign from his home in Delaware in light of the restrictions imposed by the Corona epidemic, and technical difficulties surround some of his efforts to reach voters, including online events in the critical states in determining the winner.
According to the latest opinion poll of Reuters / Ipsos, whose results were published last Tuesday, Biden enjoys the support of 46% of the electorate compared to 38% for Trump.
Dillon explained that by June the Biden campaign will employ at least 600 field staff devoted to implementing the expanded map of the campaign, despite the continuing financial gap compared to the Trump campaign.
Battlefields
Dillon added that the focus would not target states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida that Trump upset in his 2016 victory, but also states that Democrats must protect, along with traditionally Republican states.
She indicated that she expected the new employees to be "on the ground" and to communicate with voters face-to-face when the guiding principles of social divergence change, but she did not commit to a date for that, and she reiterated that the campaign did not have a specific timetable for Biden's return to regular campaigns.
Corona was not examined and in
response to a question whether Biden had undergone a coronavirus detection test, Dillon denied this had happened, confirming that there was no plan for that.
The hiring of new employees is the latest clear step for Biden's campaign to counter criticism from some Democrats and progressive allies that the campaign is not intensifying fast enough.
The campaign also said that it received $ 103 million until the end of last April, after it was about 61 million in its infancy, compared to more than $ 250 million in the Trump campaign.