{"id":7045,"date":"2024-06-24T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:30:58","slug":"campaign-manager-bluntly-throws-in-the-towel-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/2026\/campaign-manager-bluntly-throws-in-the-towel-in-florida\/njackson\/2024\/06\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Manager Bluntly Throws in the Towel in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A pointless pursuit…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite Democrats’ attempts to make a dent in Florida, President Joe Biden’s campaign manager knows when it is time to call it quits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0that Puck\u2019s\u00a0John Heilemann\u00a0described as a\u00a0\u201crare and candid conversation,\u201d\u00a0Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon\u00a0was asked about the Biden team\u2019s strategy for 2024, including what states the campaign viewed as true battlegrounds they could win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a> has more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heilemann: If you boil it down, what you\u2019re saying is that 2020 was a national election; there were battleground states, but you ran the campaign like a national referendum on Trump. But in 2024, you\u2019re running a half-dozen targeted state campaigns\u2014which gets us to the topic of your paths to victory. I named six states [Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia]. You\u2019d agree those are battlegrounds, yes?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Malley Dillon: Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you\u2019re saying you see North Carolina also as a battleground state?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you. I was afraid you were going to lie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe job of the campaign is to keep as many battleground states in play for as long as possible so we can navigate any flexibility in the race,\u201d O\u2019Malley Dillon explained, pointing out how Biden had won Georgia and Arizona in 2020 despite those states not being \u201cin play at all at this point\u201d in the election cycle, \u201cand certainly were not traditional battleground states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Malley Dillon\u2019s comments come just days after Democratic National Committee Chairman\u00a0Jaime Harrison\u00a0visited Tallahassee for a Florida Democratic Party (FDP) rally and told reporters there he viewed the state to be “in play.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Days after DNC chair @harrisonjaime<\/a> said stars were aligning for Dems in Florida & told Fla reporters that he wouldn't be in Tally if the state weren't in play … Puck News quotes top Biden campaign official Jen O'Malley Dillon acknowledging Fla is not a battleground for them<\/p>— Gary Fineout (@fineout) June 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>