Vice President Kamala Harris has hired President Joe Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, and campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon to run her 2024 campaign.
The hire drew negative reactions from some in the mainstream media, due to concerns that Biden’s campaign was not run or organized well enough to take on former President Donald Trump. “Putting the people who ran the Biden campaign at the top is not good news for the Democratic Party,” the pollster said. Nate Silver Said.
The Harris campaign appears intent on winning the election on the Biden-Harris Administration’s record of open borders, soaring costs and self-inflicted instability abroad. Harris appeared on Monday for the first time since entering the Democratic primary and defended the Administration’s record of policy failures. “What Joe Biden has accomplished over the last three years is unparalleled in modern history,” she argued, calling for applause from the audience.
Dillon has been working for Biden since 2020 after leaving Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for the presidential election. She was a strong supporter of Biden’s continued campaign and repeatedly maintained that Biden would not drop out of the race after the infamous debate.
Rodriguez, the granddaughter of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, served in the Obama administration and worked for Harris as a state senator in 2016 before joining Biden’s 2020 campaign.
Harris is also considering hiring a former associate of Obama’s, with David Plouffe, who served as an adviser to former President Barack Obama, being considered. POLITICO report:
Others who have consistently advised the vice president include veteran Democratic strategists Mignon Moore and Donna Brazile, but both have formal roles and it is unclear whether they will join Harris’ campaign staff. Harris has relied on a team of several former colleagues as she focuses on debate preparations, but it is unclear at this point whether Donald Trump would agree to the debate.
Plouffe ran Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and later served as a senior White House adviser. He has worked with many of the advisers who now lead the Biden campaign, who joined the general election as Obama’s battleground states director. Plouffe did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Seven states will determine the president: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, longtime Democratic consultant Doug Sosnick wrote. The New York TimesIf Trump wins one or more of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Harris’ chances of winning 270 electoral votes will be slim.
Harris will face challenges among voters: Her intersectional platform and radical policies are unlikely to be well received in Blue Wall states, nor in Sun Belt states with large minority and young voters. Hold A Quinnipiac University poll conducted Monday found that 55 percent of 18-34 year olds have an unfavorable view.
“The Midwest is not a place where Harris has a chance,” said a Democratic activist close to Harris. Said Politico Playbook on Tuesday. “Her chances … are going to be Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. And whatever happens in those four states, the rest of the country is going to follow.”
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