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(NewsNation) — The Biden-Harris run is shifting into “high gear” amid wide concerns astir the president’s property and performance, according to an interior memo obtained by NewsNation.
The enactment served arsenic an update connected the "path ahead,” laying retired a program to decision erstwhile President Donald Trump successful the 2024 election. Data and polling, it said, constituent to a borderline of mistake contention successful cardinal battleground states. As for lingering questions surrounding Democrats’ nominating process, the run indispensable person voters their distaste for Trump outweighs immoderate concerns astir the 81-year-old incumbent’s age, the memo stated.
“Voters turned connected the statement knowing Joe Biden was old, but having forgotten however overmuch they dislike Donald Trump,” it read. “They near the statement with a caller reminder of however utmost a 2nd Trump word would beryllium and however overmuch they dislike him.”
The run indispensable besides unafraid aggregate paths to 270 electoral votes, with a peculiar absorption connected alleged "blue wall" states similar Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, it said. Other strategy goals see doubling down connected grassroots enactment and driving an “ambitious docket for the future.”
“No 1 is denying that the statement was a setback,” the memo read. “But Joe Biden and this run person made it done setbacks before. We are wide eyed astir what we request to bash to win.”
Biden is scheduled to instrumentality questions from the White House property corps astatine 6:30 p.m. ET astatine the extremity of a NATO acme successful Washington. NewsNation volition livestream the quality league here.