The Trump campaign has been trying to exploit the drop in the polls for Biden among Black and Latino voters, but the president's team says it has a plan to hang on to them.
  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    453·
    5 months ago

    he’s pulling a “not Hillary” and actually doing a fuckton of grassroots campaigning in depressed-voting districts, spending outrageous amounts of money on outreach and ads, too. Also good that they’re addressing this now, rather than waiting until the last minute.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      14·
      5 months ago

      Yup. The best time to have done it was starting in January, the second best time is now.

      Waiting until the convention in August would be a death sentence.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        91·
        5 months ago

        Starting earlier would have been better, but a lot of the analysis I’ve been listening to seems to indicate that it wasn’t until recently that the Biden campaign was able to get a better idea of the who/where/whys of the disengagement and how best to respond. This is what most likely informed the timing of their strategy.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 months ago

    That meant investing early on ground operations and through targeted ads — including in Spanish — attempting to reach voters of color that the campaign couldn’t in 2020; getting the president and vice president in front of local minority-owned news organizations; and fanning out in nontraditional ways, like at bingo halls, local food drives, barbecues and farmers markets.

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
    1614·
    5 months ago

    If only we had less shitty options for the election… fuck Biden, fuck Trump even more for forcing us to vote for this genocidal maniac.

  • RockyC@lemm.eeEnglish
    1316·
    5 months ago

    If he really wants my “black vote” in November, he can start by ending all arms shipments to Israel. Watching little brown-skinned babies get blown to smithereens makes me want to stay home on Election Day or vote third party.