Biden campaign highlights ramp up of Nevada efforts before visit

Democrats will have more than 40 campaign staffers on the ground in Nevada and Arizona by the end of this month, according to a Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager, and operations are expected to match or exceed what the party invested in the region during the 2022 midterm election.

President Joe Biden will travel to Reno, Las Vegas, and Phoenix on Tuesday, according to The White House.

Biden and former President Donald Trump last week each secured enough delegates to clinch the presidential nominations for their respective parties.

Ahead of the president’s visits Tuesday, Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign Manager Julie C. Rodriguez in a memo highlighted its investments in the western battleground states and what issues they believe matter most to its voters: jobs, attacks on democracy, immigration, and abortion access.

Nevada and Arizona both featured prominently in the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn duly held elections in several battleground states despite no evidence of mass voting fraud having occurred. The Nevada Republican Party is headed by a recently indicted fake elector, Michael McDonald, the Biden campaign noted.

Both Nevada and Arizona are also expected to have abortion rights initiatives on their November ballots, which is seen as a boon for Democrats.

“Republicans in both states are deeply divided and far behind in shoring up their party apparatus as Trump and his MAGA allies remain fixated on election denialism and toxic abortion bans that continue to alienate the voters they need to win back after losing in 2018, 2020, and 2022,” reads the campaign memo.

The Biden-Harris campaign also emphasized its support of unions and its recent immigration efforts, which were thwarted by Trump allies in Congress.

For the 2022 midterm, the Democratic operation included more than 180 staff across Nevada and Arizona and more than 16 million calls, texts and doors knocked.

The memo also highlighted the campaign’s targeted outreach to Latino, Black, AANHPI and Native American voters.

Make the Road Action Nevada this week will launch a seven-figure “get out the vote” campaign targeting engagement and registration of new Latine voters across the state.