MIAMI — President Joe Biden’s campaign came to Miami to counterprogram the third Republican primary debate but ended up being pushed on his poor polling numbers.
Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez defended the president after this week’s New York Times-Siena College poll found the incumbent was behind his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, in five out of six battleground states. Biden’s 2 percentage point lead over Trump in Wisconsin is also within the poll’s margin of error, though, as is Trump’s advantage in Pennsylvania.
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“Polling at this stage is not predictive,” Rodriguez said Tuesday at trade union SEIU’s Miami office. “I think we can look at some of the historical data around this, whether it’s President Obama — you know, this time in 2011, headlines say Obama is toast. You know, past presidents have faced similar sort of experiences, but they’ve gone off to win reelection. And we know that’s really the trajectory we’re on.”
“We know the president’s politics are extremely popular, and it’s our job to ensure that we’re getting out and really communicating that message and reminding voters the important choice that they have,” she said. “From our vantage point right now, this is just a snapshot in time, and we know that, you know, between now and next November, we have important work to do.”
The Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee will additionally hold roundtables with Florida voters in Miami-Dade County on Wednesday after the party lost the state in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) gubernatorial reelection bid by almost 20 points.
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Rodriguez was accompanied by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), a Biden campaign advisory board member, as well as Florida Democratic lawmakers and officials who mocked DeSantis’s “Florida Blueprint,” particularly amid the state’s property insurance crisis.
DeSantis will appear alongside four other candidates at the debate Wednesday in downtown Miami, while Florida’s most prominent Republican, Trump, will hold a competing rally in nearby Hialeah.
