Biden’s Campaign Chair Admits Florida Is No Longer A Battleground State
“For decades, Florida was the largest, most-important battleground state in presidential elections. Today, even the Biden campaign acknowledges that those days are over.”
Free Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) got to work cleaning up Florida elections almost as soon as he entered office and has continued to do so during his two terms as governor. Combined with his policies that Floridians overwhelmingly approve, Republican voter registration surpassing that of Democrats, and the 2022 red wave elections in Florida, the Sunshine State has become, at least for now, a solidly red state.
This is so much the case that Biden’s campaign chair stated that Florida is not in play this November.
For decades, Florida was the largest, most-important battleground state in presidential elections.
Today, even the Biden campaign acknowledges that those days are over.
Florida is not in play in 2024. https://t.co/C8XgyZxFXD
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 24, 2024
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, told Puck News that Florida is not in play this November.
During her interview with John Heilemann, she laid out the campaign’s “six in six” strategy focusing on the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.
Heilemann also asked if the campaign saw North Carolina as a battleground state.
“Yes,” O’Malley Dillon replied.
“Florida?” he asked.
“No,” she said in response.
“Thank you,” Heilemann said. “I was afraid you were going to lie.”
It’s an election year, and Florida Democrats are not happy with this clear-eyed assessment from Team Biden.
[Dillon’s] comments seemed to throw Florida politics into a tailspin, with even many Democrats viewing them as contradicting an April memo from Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez that declared Florida “winnable.”
“Not a lot of staffers, consultants or organizers are in a position to say it, but this was such an unnecessary, demoralizing gut punch,” Florida-based communications consultant Kevin Cate wrote on X about the comments, while urging fellow Democrats to keep up their work “and one day, we will flip it.”
. . . . Despite O’Malley Dillon’s comments, Dan Kanninen, Biden-Harris battleground states director, maintained in a statement that Florida was “in play for President Biden and Democrats up and down the ballot” and that the campaign “continues to scale up our presence and investments into the state.” Abhi Rahman, a deputy communications director for the Democratic National Committee, said the state party was “undergoing a resurgence,” while Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried urged people not to “count Florida out” and said the party was building for the long term.
Between the wistful “one day we will flip it” and “the party was building for the long term,” it seems Florida and National Democrats do not consider Florida a battleground state for this year’s elections, either. And it’s not.
Politico continues:
But Florida Democrats haven’t seen a surge in voter registrations in the time that the Biden campaign said it was expanding its footprint there. And while a recent Fox News poll has Trump leading Biden by only four points, Ryan Tyson, who’s done polling for Gov. Ron DeSantis and has a track record of accuracy in the state, recently had Trump ahead by 10 points, Florida Politics reported. Neither side is spending much money in Florida, a key indicator that it’s not competitive.
. . . . Even before the O’Malley Dillon line on Monday, some long-time Democratic analysts and consultants in Florida had grown weary of what they viewed as an all-too-optimistic viewpoint coming from Democratic leaders such as Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair who was in Tallahassee last week.
“Democrats are gaslighting Democrats about Florida,” said Fernand Amandi, the South Florida communications and political consultant well known for his cable news appearances.
Floridians cannot sit back and relax because Democrats never give up, and they very much feel the loss of Florida and its 30 electoral votes.
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If only DeSantis was our nominee instead of Trump. If we lose this election, which I fear, it is all because of Trump.
If wishes were fishes…The primary is done. Trump won b/c the voters decided he was preferable in ’24 as the GoP nominee. Some good reasons for that other reasons much less so IMO.
Past time to stop barking about Trump and unify. By all means if he steps on his d7&k call him out on it. I sure will if it rises to that level of jackassery, which let’s face it he probably will at some point, the man can’t seem to help himself sometimes. But damn dude consider giving it a rest with the incessant carping. It ain’t helping change any
minds here and is probably souring some folks on DeSantis by proxy.
You can write in his name.
You go to war with the army you have.
I mean it’s clear you don’t (or maybe you do and it’s just a different army), but I’ve moved on to at least vote for the best shot at a future, regardless of the pettiness of some cult members.
“If we lose this election, which I fear, it is all because of Trump.”
Who is this “we” you’re referring to, Kemo Sabee?
We all know you’re a never-Trump dingus who will likely vote for Biden, so your “we” is bullspit.
If Trump “loses,” it will be because of never-Trump dickheads like you, AWFL’s, and Democrat cheating.
You don’t know when to let bygones be bygones and move on. You’re obsessed with living in the past and marinating in old regrets and resentments.
Any rational conservative would have long ago reconciled himself or herself to DeSantis’s primary withdrawal, and, moved on to support President Trump, without engaging in constant and retrospective hand-wringing and flagellation.
Your whining is as tiresome as it is unproductive.
Your only choice in 2024 are between the Devil and the Deep Blue Void.
Well, I have looked into the void for four years now, and I prefer the Devil I know.
Was it ever, really? If not mistaken, there are no Democrats holding statewide office and the legislature is quite lopsided. It was a head fake, the cousin of the cheap fake, which Democrats will remembered for.
Now there are no Democrats holding statewide office, but that has not long been the case. At all. We have been inflicted with the likes of Nikki Fried, who is now running the Florida Democrats, but yeah, she won her role in a state-wide election for Agri commissioner in 2019. It’s probably not good to pretend to know more than you do, right?
Not pretending one bit. Sad you have to get in the dig, especially by relying on an election in 2018, merely 6 years ago. It actually confirms the point that Florida is really not a battleground in 2024.
The larger point was that Biden’s team was throwing shade by pretending it was a battleground. Your last remark is petty.
Good advise.. for everyone, one might say…
Why the last sentence?
Even though the GOP had enjoyed a long stretch of control over the Governor’s mansion (with Bush being elected and reelected convincingly), it seemed to be trending away from the GOP 2006 to 2012. Scott won the Governor’s race twice, but they were razor-thin margins. Also, at this same time (roughly), Obama won FL twice and Bill Nelson had been reelected once or twice before losing to Rubio in the Tea Party year of 2010. In 2016, Trump flipped it red again….but, just barely, only beating Clinton by just over a point. It really was more of a purple state than a reliable red state at that time.
It wasn’t until 2020 did we really see this big lurch back to the right with a convincing win by Trump and then DeSantis’ massive reelection in 2022. I think through much of the 2016 election cycle, most professional political observers believed Clinton was going to win the state easily. In fact, she had a 4/5-point advantage until November.
BTW, Trump was the first president in a LONG time to win both FL & OH in the same year but lose the presidential election, one of the MANY data points that makes 2020 stink to high heaven.
He didn’t lose the election
It was stolen
Florida is getting older and that means more conservative voters regardless of party affiliation.
It’s also a haven for the most conservative Latino immigrants in the country, which is why Biden wants to deny them legal entry while flooding the nation with people from literally anywhere else.
At last — after a quarter century — nobody gives a damn how Chad is hanging.
they were trying to imply some racist garbage there
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By Sharyl Attkisson | June 25, 2024
A worker at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) in Arizona has been arrested for stealing items that provide access to the center, just ahead of the county’s upcoming primary election.
Maricopa County has been at the center of various election irregularities and disputes, including the 2020 presidential election when Joe Biden made an unusual, overnight, come from behind victory over Donald Trump.
According to KTAR News, court documents show that an election worker, 27-year-old Walter Ringfield, who was already a convicted felon involving a previous crime, was captured on surveillance video stealing a security fob, and keys and lanyard.
Authorities reportedly executed a search warrant and found the security fob in Ringfield’s Phoenix home, and the lanyard in his car. Ringfield was arrested last week.
Court documents say that Ringfield claimed he took the stolen items because he was cleaning up and, as a temporary worker, hoped to make his job permanent.
So regrettable he got caught. Now the cartel will surely kill his dog.
Virginia is now tilting red. Biden support eroding rapidly.
ITS CALLED MISDIRECTION
they want them to sleep while they ship more illegals there