Biden's opened over 100 campaign offices. Trump? Seems like zero

[babylonsister]

Biden's opened over 100 campaign offices. Trump? Seems like zero
Wednesday, April 03, 2024 at 3:30:25p EDT
David Nir

Donald Trump's campaign is quite literally nowhere to be seen in the critical swing states that will decide the election this fall.

As Joe Biden builds out campaign infrastructure in key battleground states, report after report shows that Trump's effort is invisible.

Take Michigan, for example. Biden reclaimed the state by a small 3-point margin in 2020 after Trump flipped it by less than a point four years earlier. Its 15 electoral votes will once again be up for grabs this year, which is why Biden's team just announced plans to open 30 offices throughout the state by mid-April, including in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Marquette.

So where's Trump? When the Detroit News' Greg Mauger asked the Trump campaign to confirm Democrats' claim that the GOP's presumptive nominee had "yet to open a single campaign office" in the state, a spokesperson, Chris LaCivita, sputtered about polling and insisted he wouldn't "shar[e] our strategy with Democrats through the media."

A more honest take came from state GOP chair Pete Hoekstra, who admitted to the Associated Press' Steve Peoples that the Republican presence in Michigan was a "skeleton."


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[GreenWave]

1. News media are his offices.

[617Blue]

2. Yep. He doesn't need them. He doesn't even need $$$.

This thing is over. Netanyahu will ethnically cleanse Gaza before the election and it will all be over by the time Trump is inaugurated. Biden will be blamed. Then Trump will say he created peace. Bibi will rule another decade or so.

This is all over.

[Mister Ed]

4. Yep. We're toast. It's all over but the cryin'.

Time to pack up and go home. Shut down the Biden campaign. Get while the gettin's good. What's the use?



Jesus Christ on a pogo stick...

[Emile]

6. You forgot the sarcasm thingy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. No

[calimary]

13. Cool. Can we deliver him straight up their asses then?

[ShazzieB]

19. What large forces?

His support has been dwindling for years now. Yes, he still has fanatical followers, but the numbers are not what they used to be. It takes more than a ragtag band of cultists to win an election.

[Celerity]

7. You are being too pessimistic for my taste.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Wouldn't it be better to attack Democrats / plant defeatism on another site than DU?

[paleotn]

18. Then why aren't you running for the hills, Denethor?

News flash! Germans roll through France in weeks. At the gates of Moscow. Japanese navy is ranging as far as Sri Lanka. All is lost!!!!!!!

[IronLionZion]

28. Dewey Defeats Truman

Remember President Dewey? Me neither.

[Hekate]

29. That's a bit over the top, 617Blue. You sure you're in the right place?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

32. Bibi is very much like TSF

I cannot imagine the right wing of any religious entity actually being pious. They're blinded by hatred of their opposition. No such thing as "my honorable opponent" in their lexicon.

Democracy had better rise here and in Israel Pronto.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. TSF is banking on all the media coverage....

Rather than having boots on the ground.

Once a cheapskate, always a cheapskate. Being in the news for 9 years now is a record for him.

[Johonny]

25. I think this is sound strategy for him

But might spell disaster down ballot, particularly in suburbs where Trump brand conservativism is not popular.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Let's give Joe and Kamala a BLUE Congress and lots of State houses.

[DFW]

8. Trump has opened Fox Noise, CNN and the major "both sides" newspapers

Why should he pay for offices to do what the media does for him for free?

[All Mixed Up]

22. That's not how it works.

For starters, the people who watch cable news, especially FOX News, are certain to vote in November no matter what. But they're also a very small percentage of the population. This place LOVES to conflate the amount of people who watch cable news. Maybe it's because this site's user base largely trends older but not even a sliver of the country watches FOX News.

You still need a field organization to get out the vote. Believe it or not, Trump actually had a decent one in 2020, with minority outreach centers in key swing states. It helped. The Republicans were very good at getting voters registered, especially in Pennsylvania where they actually out-registered Democrats in the state.

That campaign infrastructure is gone. The local GOP in many of these states have been decimated since 2020 and especially since 2016.

That will have an impact because again, most voters aren't watching cable news.

Remember this: only 1.4 million people watch FOX News daily.

That's it.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Trump only opens his mouth /nt

[RandiFan1290]

11. trump plans on being appointed by the House. nt

[Marthe48]

14. For traitor the number of votes don't matter

he'll say on Nov 4th, the day before that he won, and as far as he's concerned, it's a done deal. He'll spend the rest of his miserable days blathering that the election was rigged, and suing anybody or anything that crosses him.

But for the rest of us, there is an election to work on and people who are involved to make sure it is inclusive, honest and fair.

[Skittles]

16. he has Russia and the media do it for him

fucking corrupt POS

[woodsprite]

17. Trump doesn't need offices with people in each state willing to steal it for him. nt

[All Mixed Up]

23. Why would Democratic govenors in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin steal it for him?

[4lbs]

27. In 2016, Dumpy the Clown had Repuke Govs giving him their states in

Michigan and Wisconsin

2016 - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder

2016 - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

He barely won those states, barely won PA (0.6 points), barely won AZ (3.5 points), and got GA by 5 points.

Then 2020 happened. Michigan and Wisconsin got Democratic Governors, and Dumpy lost those states plus PA, AZ, and GA.

When Biden wins those states again, and potentially (possibly) adds Texas, Florida, and North Carolina to the blue column, Dumpy's electoral total may end up being smaller than his hands.

Biden lost North Carolina in 2020 by only 1.5 points. It is within reach.

Biden lost Florida in 2020 by 3.5 points. It too is within reach, within most MoE. DeSansdick has been really helping the Democrats with his crap over the past two years. His LOSING battles with Disney and Dumpy are now legendary. Not even his white booties will help now.

Biden lost Texas in 2020 by slightly more than 5 points, but it has been growing bluer since, and Abbott's shenanigans haven't helped the GOPpies at all nationwide.

Dumpy lost the 2020 popular vote by 7 million. I wouldn't be surprised if it winds up being double digit millions (10+ million) this year.

[paleotn]

20. I'd think it's lack of money.

But I wonder how much ground infrastructure he had in 2016 and 2020.

Nevertheless, he's a long shot regardless of recent national polling. Dems control the voting apparatus in the key Midwestern states, MI and WI, along with PA. He can't 180 on the singular issue of our time, reproductive rights, without royally pissing off a chunk of his base. Biden is flush with cash to flood the airwaves and the ground between now and Nov. And all the litigation are ticking timebombs. I wouldn't want to be him.

[All Mixed Up]

24. Republicans definitely had a stronger field game than currently.

[SWBTATTReg]

31. I think you're right. He's ripped off all of the election money for his own purposes, to pay his bills, etc.,

illegally of course. And of course, Garland won't do a damn thing about it. And speaking of Garland, where in the hell is he?

[D23MIURG23]

21. Real offices are too expensive. He has "Identity Europa" and other assorted neo-nazi groups. n/t

[cstanleytech]

26. Trump's probably counting on a repeat of 2016 where the media helped provide him hundreds of millions of free PR.

A tactical blunder though because as we saw in 2020 that same move helped usher him out.

[twodogsbarking]

30. Biden 100; Trump 0. This applies to, well, most everything, except criminal charges.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. Like Marsha Blackburn said years ago: Elections will be decided by the bullet box, not the ballot box.

That is where they are going. Wake up America