“These are all issues that resonate with the core constituencies we need to turn out in 2024. Her increased public presence – speaking out on issues such as race, reproductive rights and guns – is part of a broader strategy overseen by Biden’s senior advisers and coordinated by campaign aides that is also about deliberately keeping the president mostly out of the direct fray until at least early next year. The timing – hours before the leading GOP presidential candidates gathered in Des Moines for a marquee fundraising dinner – was no mistake.īiden aides see their path to victory next year rooted in large part in connecting with Black voters, women, young people and other groups that tend to respond warmly to Harris. And instead of speaking from behind a podium, Harris sat in a comfortable chair in front of a packed room of women at Drake University.
(A state judge has since put the law on hold.) There were many of the same lines, including her riff on so-called leaders, but now on another topic that President Joe Biden’s aides are eager to highlight Republican positions on. Kim Reynolds had just signed a new ban on abortions after six weeks.
So last Monday, Harris aides started planning her trip to Iowa for four days later: a discussion on reproductive rights in a state where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for the state’s new curriculum standards on Black history and expressing concern that Republicans wanted to “replace history with lies.” That set off a week of responses from the governor, which his opponents have used as ongoing fodder for attacks. But by Friday afternoon, Harris had delivered a fiery speech that was well received among Democrats, blasting Florida Gov. They did not even have a venue lined up when they started reaching out to supporters about attending a quickly arranged speech in Jacksonville, Florida, the next day.
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