Politico
Dec 15, 2020 11:50 AM ET
Then there’s the matter of appearance. While Biden risks expending precious political capital even before taking the oath of office, if he plays it safe and declines to go to a state he narrowly won especially after President Donald Trump and a bevy of Republicans have campaigned there it will send an early message of caution and timidity. And it would signal to Georgia Democrats that the uphill contests were too far out of reach.
“I don’t think there’s a choice here,” said Doug Sosnik, former White House political director for President Bill Clinton.
In Georgia, one of five states that President-elect Joe Biden flipped in the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump has been campaigning for two incumbent GOP senators who are facing runoffs in January: Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Sen. David Perdue. But according to Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt, there is just one hitch â which is that Trump s new political machine is pocketing most of the dough, and the campaigns of the Georgia senators competing in the January 5 races aren t getting a cent.
In his requests for donations, Isenstadt notes, Trump is saying things like We MUST defend Georgia from the Dems! and Help us WIN both Senate races in Georgia & STOP Socialist Dems. But the outgoing president isn t directly sharing that money with Loeffler or Perdue.
in the poll, only 24% say the country is headed in the right direction, down ten points since june. 74% say things are going in the wrong direction. and just 44% of republicans now say the country is headed in the right direction. back in june, that number was at 60%. former bill clinton adviser doug sosnik says trump is on track to win ri election, citing his strength with his base and ability to create polarizing controversies. and politico reports that trump s campaign operation is zeroing in on 2020 battlegrounds, focusing on ohio while the president will focus on pennsylvania, ohio and michigan snp infighting among trump s top staff and cabinet members drew attention with john kelly scrapping a trip to las vegas in order to handle the fallout of an exclusive nbc report about the president s relationship with rex tillerson. and on saturday, the president spoke out about kelly s role.