Biden campaign chair: Florida not a battleground state
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President Biden’s reelection campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon ruled out Florida as a battleground state in an interview published on Monday,
O’Malley Dillon told Puck News’s John Heilemann that she viewed North Carolina as a battleground state. But when asked the same about Florida, she said “No.”
Her comments come after Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said the Sunshine State was in play.
“That’s why I’m here now,” Harrison told ABC Action News in Tampa last week. “We're opening offices. I feel good about the direction that we're going.”
“And I believe that a November of this year, once again, we're going to be saying, 'Florida, Florida, Florida,'” he continued.
The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ polling average shows former President Trump leading Biden in Florida by more than 6 points.
Florida has increasingly been seen as a Republican stronghold in recent years. Former President Trump won the state by just over 1 percent in 2016 and by just over 3 percent in 2020. Republicans further solidified their standing in the state during the 2022 midterm elections, with nearly every statewide GOP candidate winning by comfortable margins and the party expanding its grip on the state Legislature.
But Democrats saw a glimmer of hope in the Sunshine State earlier this year when the state’s Supreme Court issued two rulings on access to abortion, one of which upheld the state’s 15-week abortion ban and another that gave the green light to a ballot measure that would protect access to abortion in the state if passed in November.
Both Biden and Vice President Harris have made trips to the state following the news, while Democratic Senate candidate and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (Florida) has taken the issue front and center in her campaign.
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