President Joe Biden’s team is increasingly taking extraordinary steps to minimize disruptions from pro-Palestinian protests at his events by making them smaller, withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, avoiding college campuses and, in at least one instance, considering hiring a private company to vet attendees.
The Biden campaign is organizing a number of “larger-scale events over the coming weeks,” after the State of the Union address, according to a source familiar with the planning, “reaching voters where they are, including on college campuses.”
Last fall, Harris launched a tour of college campuses that was focused on reaching young voters. After a spate of events in the fall, Biden officials planned to move the effort to the campaign and extend it into the spring semester, as well, according to a campaign official familiar with the planning. But the college-specific series was postponed over concerns about protests from students who oppose the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, this official said.
Last week, though, Biden chose to announce a $1.2 billion student loan forgiveness program in front of a few dozen people at a small public library in the Los Angeles area, not at one of the at least five large college campuses within a 10-mile radius.
@AmazedGr4ssrootGreen2mos2MO
“hiring a private company to vet attendees” suddenly feeling inspired to vote Biden to save democracy
@SenatePearSocialist2mos2MO
Feeling inspired to go to a Biden event and call him Genocide Joe and yell Free Palestine!
@AmazedGr4ssrootGreen2mos2MO
if that dementia anger comes out joe will be dropping the most archaic slurs on mic
@PacifiedFrogLibertarian2mos2MO
Their strategy seems to be to push voters against the wall with Trump as their opponent and convert many Haley voters.
He's going to lose a chunk of 2020 Biden voters.
@P0llingPlaceNarwhalForward2mos2MO
There are millions of young people trying to decide if they can sacrifice every moral principle they hold dear to vote for Biden despite the slaughter of Palestinians. Avoiding them instead of doing something about it seems extraordinarily arrogant and wishful thinking.
This sets up an additional strategic win for the right;s war against education by framing this as radical "woke" campuses being so far too the left that even mainstream democrats refuse to engage with them.
@DolphinBruceSocialist2mos2MO
The DNC is letting this man throw destroy them for a single issue yet they have the guts to call us the single issue voters for rejecting them due to the genocide?
to be fair it’s not like showing up to youth voters with “we’re still restarting student loan payments and still funding genocide with it” is going to win him many votes anyway
@DolphinBruceSocialist2mos2MO
Straight up the most “no seriously please do not vote for us” campaign I’ve ever seen
Where's grandpa Waldo?
@Ind3pendentOwlGreen2mos2MO
“Democracy is on the line”? But not enough to meet the voters you need ?
@S3curitySwanGreen2mos2MO
This is insane. This is a LBJ/Nixon/Dubya second term stunt.
@J0intCommitt3eMothSocialist2mos2MO
A Democratic campaign that is scared of college campuses is not a campaign that can win given today’s coalitions
@S3curitySwanGreen2mos2MO
Doing all this just to lose to Donald Trump in the general is wild..
@GrudgingC0nservat1veForward2mos2MO
Seems likely that Trump is going to win every swing state. That's assuming polls are not underestimating his coalition which is notoriously more difficult to poll.
@UnstoppableOilDemocrat2mos2MO
The vast majority of college campus voters will still show up and vote Biden. Maybe protestors shouldn't interrupt every campaign speech 10 plus times. No candidate is gonna put up with that.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
@9KFSFBN 2mos2MO
He will not be the Democratic Candidate. The Democratic Party is trying to replace him and doesn't want him to ruin the election by saying or doing something stupid.
@BoldActiv1stNo Labels2mos2MO
We need better alternatives. These two old folks are ridiculous. All the main 3rd party candidates are not polling well enough to make a real push either. such a sad state of affairs here.
The historical activity of users engaging with this general discussion.
Loading data...
Loading chart...
Loading the political themes of users that engaged with this discussion
Loading data...
