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President Biden and his staff plan to fan out after the State of the Union tackle to amplify his message and promote his agenda with visits to key battleground states, the beginning of a month of campaign-style barnstorming now that the final election contest has begun in earnest.
Mr. Biden will head to Philadelphia on Friday and Atlanta on Saturday for marketing campaign speeches, hitting two of the half-dozen swing states that he gained in 2020 and is relying on to defeat former President Donald J. Trump once more in November. Vice President Kamala Harris will journey to Arizona and Nevada, two different states in that very same class.
The cupboard will be part of within the effort as nicely, because the secretaries of the Treasury, inside, agriculture, labor, well being and human providers, training power and veterans affairs in addition to varied company administrators hit the street. The officers will discuss coverage targets like defending abortion rights and promote the administration’s accomplishments, comparable to robust job progress. U.S. employers added 275,000 jobs final month, the Labor Department reported on Friday.
“As with any State of the Union tackle, the president will seize on the power and momentum to journey throughout the nation and communicate to voters about how his agenda is and can ship for his or her communities,” mentioned Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for the Biden-Harris marketing campaign. After the stops in Philadelphia and Atlanta, Mr. Biden may have “extra journey all through the month — rallies, coalition occasions, marketing campaign organizing occasions, retail stops and extra to come back.”
The president’s staff didn’t even anticipate the speech to start publicizing it. A row of tv cameras from 10 native stations from across the nation was arrange on Thursday simply in entrance of the West Wing. White House officers like Ben LaBolt, the White House communications director, and Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, may step from one to the opposite to make the administration’s case in a type of Washington model of pace relationship.
The White House additionally invited radio hosts, Hispanic broadcasters and digital media influencers and publishers to spend a part of the day on the White House for interviews. Ms. Harris was slated to offer a briefing to digital information retailers and creators forward of the speech.
