President Joe Biden’s campaign used the Super Tuesday results to paint former President Donald Trump as a weakened candidate facing financial constraints and a divisive agenda that could alienate crucial voter blocs while Biden works to engage undecided voters.
In assessing the race ahead of the State of the Union on Thursday, Biden’s campaign encouraged voters to ask three questions leading up to the general election: “Which candidate is consolidating their coalition? Which candidate is amassing the resources and building the infrastructure necessary to run a modern campaign that reaches the voters who will decide this election? Most importantly, which candidate has a winning agenda and a winning track record at the ballot box?”
The Democrat’s team emphasized the answer to all three of these questions is Biden. It underscored that Biden is uniquely positioned as the only candidate who has defeated Trump.
“Beyond Donald Trump’s demonstrated inability to expand his appeal beyond the MAGA base, which this memo covers in detail below, upwards of 10% of voters remain undecided, much larger than the current margin between Trump and Biden in polling,” the memo from Biden’s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon read.
“As the general election ramps up, the campaign will aggressively engage these undecided voters, highlighting the stakes of this election to secure their votes in November,” the memo added.
Biden’s campaign said the president has “shown strong support in diverse states with Black, Latino, white working class, and suburban voters,” listing off his primary victories.
Multiple polls show Biden and the broader Democratic Party are seeing a decline in support among minority voters, a crucial group that played a key role in securing the president’s victory in the last election. In a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released in January, Biden had the support of just 63% of black voters, a drop from 2020. Trump led Biden among Hispanic voters, 39% to 37%.
Black and Hispanic voters are significantly less likely to align themselves with the Democratic Party than they were three years ago, according to a Gallup poll from last month.
The memo blasted Trump for his inability “to expand his support beyond the hardcore MAGA base” and for struggling to win support from moderates and suburban voters. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley won the GOP Vermont primary in her only Super Tuesday victory over Trump and is expected to end her presidential campaign on Wednesday. Biden’s team said the former president can’t count on moderates and Haley voters in the general election.
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The Biden-Harris reelection campaign wrapped up January with $130 million in cash on hand and blasted the Republican National Committee for bleeding cash and reports it would use what limited funds it has to help pay for Trump’s legal fees, as the former president faces 91 criminal charges.
“If their finances sound bad, Trump and the RNC have zero infrastructure to run a general election campaign,” the memo read. “Trump’s campaign has also not announced any battleground states programs or staff, and the limited investments his team has made into actual voter outreach have been directed toward primary voters.”
