Biden campaign launches expansion -- but no word on plans to leave his house

[RandySF]

The moves will include an initial doubling of Biden’s 20-person digital staff; new hires in fundraising and organizing; and the appointments of senior officials from the shuttered campaigns of former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.).

The long-expected expansion, coming more than eight weeks after Biden effectively sealed the nomination by winning the Michigan primary, was delayed in March by uncertainty about the campaign’s finances amid the pandemic, the logistics of building an organization without in-person meetings, and a strategic review by the campaign’s new leadership.

Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, a field campaign specialist who took over the day before the campaign began working remotely, has overseen the planning for the new operation, previously bringing in a veteran campaign operative, Mary Beth Cahill, to become chief executive at the Democratic National Committee, and a veteran party fundraiser, Rufus Gifford, to serve as a third deputy campaign manager.

O’Malley Dillon said she has concluded that the campaign must build a robust operation for the summer and fall, heavily weighted toward fostering communities of Biden supporters online to challenge the enormous operation that the Trump campaign has organized over the past three years. Rather than continue the lean operation that Biden had through the primaries, she speaks of a grass-roots organizing model embraced by his rival Democratic primary candidates.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-campaign-launches-expansion-in-the-face-of-democratic-worries--but-no-word-on-plans-to-leave-his-house/2020/05/08/ce39a598-908d-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

[elleng]

1. Why would there be plans to leave his house?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I'm glad to see this news.

It sounds like he's got an experienced and sharp team to help him win.

[JI7]

3. Why would he need to leave his house at this point ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Maybe he needs some more interesting Zoom backgrounds.

[quickesst]

5. here is an interesting read

How Joe Biden Can Defeat Trump From His Basement

If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.
By Lis Smith
Ms. Smith advised campaigns by Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama.

Snip:
If Joe Biden plays his cards right, the death of the traditional presidential campaign will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. The 77-year-old Mr. Biden, whom the president derisively calls “Sleepy Joe,” can become the hottest bad boy and disrupter in the media game.

It seems likely that social distancing will force the presidential campaign to be played out entirely on our screens. That will free Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, of the burden of running a grueling, expensive campaign involving incessant travel.

Instead, he can be digitally omnipresent — at a small fraction of the cost and physical toll — and create a new paradigm for how presidential campaigns communicate in the press for years to come.

More at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opinion/joe-biden-trump-2020.html

[Squinch]

6. He cannot leave his house. If he does, some ratfucker for

Donny Bodybags will intentionally infect him.

He cannot leave his house! And he doesn't need to. They are shooting themselves daily.

Right now Joe is a national resource. I wish we could turn him into the boy in the bubble.