C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
'Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's team warned its supporters to "campaign like we're trailing" in polls the same day that his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, announced she would visit Florida on Monday.
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…in a memo slated to be sent to supporters on Saturday, Biden campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon cautioned that polls can be faulty or imprecise, The New York Times reported. And while national polling averages do show Biden with a strong lead, some individual states are proving more worrisome for the Democrat.
"While we see robust leads at the national level, in the states we're counting on to carry us to victory like Arizona and North Carolina we're only up by three points," she wrote in the memo obtained by the Times. "We also know that even the best polling can be wrong, and that variables like turnout mean that in a number of critical states we are functionally tied -- and that we need to campaign like we're trailing."’
The Biden campaign is wise to counsel those who oppose Trump and seek to remove him from office to work as if Biden is behind – given how divided and polarized the country is, given the capricious nature of the voters, and given the unpredictable anachronism that his the EC.
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…in a memo slated to be sent to supporters on Saturday, Biden campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon cautioned that polls can be faulty or imprecise, The New York Times reported. And while national polling averages do show Biden with a strong lead, some individual states are proving more worrisome for the Democrat.
"While we see robust leads at the national level, in the states we're counting on to carry us to victory like Arizona and North Carolina we're only up by three points," she wrote in the memo obtained by the Times. "We also know that even the best polling can be wrong, and that variables like turnout mean that in a number of critical states we are functionally tied -- and that we need to campaign like we're trailing."’
The Biden campaign is wise to counsel those who oppose Trump and seek to remove him from office to work as if Biden is behind – given how divided and polarized the country is, given the capricious nature of the voters, and given the unpredictable anachronism that his the EC.