After President Joe Biden’s campaign recently declared Florida “winnable,” it has opened its first field office in the state.
The office is in Hillsborough County, the third-largest county in Florida, which contains most of Tampa. The county has voted Democrat in the past two elections, but Republicans are gaining ground in voter registrations there.
That has worried Democrats, with one campaign strategist telling Axios the county must be won in order for the party to have “any future life-force” in Florida. Hillsborough County contributed 376,367 votes for Biden in 2020, the fifth-highest count for the Democrat in the state.
Biden recently campaigned in Tampa, emphasizing abortion rights in the wake of Florida’s six-week abortion ban, which is set to go into effect next week. A majority of voters in Florida say the six-week ban is too strict, according to a recent poll.
A November referendum to solidify abortion rights in the state has driven the Biden campaign’s optimism in the state, which former President Donald Trump won in the past two election cycles and where Republicans have made gains in four out of the last six election cycles.
“Florida is ground zero in the fight for our rights and fundamental freedoms, and we’re not taking anything for granted,” Jasmine Burney-Clark, the Biden campaign’s top staffer in Florida, told Axios.
Biden continues to blast Trump’s self-praise on the overturned Roe v. Wade, though the former president has recently softened his abortion stance.
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“He’s wrong,” Biden said at the Tampa rally. “The Supreme Court was wrong. It should be a constitutional right in the federal Constitution. It’s not about states’ rights — it’s about women’s rights.”
Recent polls still have Trump winning handily in the state, though one released Thursday showed Biden closing the gap.
