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Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield was questioned on NBC’s Meet the Press about the Democratic candidate’s “slight physical footprint.”
Against the backdrop of a graph comparing Biden’s appearances since September in four key battlefield states (North Carolina, Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania) to those of Trump (the president is 19-14), the presenter Chuck Todd wanted to know why Biden was concentrating so much on Georgia. instead of swinging states further north.
The answer: Biden is “focused on maintaining as many paths to 270 electoral votes as possible.” Bedingfield also noted that in a scheduled appearance in Warm Springs, Georgia, on Tuesday, Biden would deliver his closing arguments at a location “that obviously has historical significance in this country.”
Warm Springs is the resort town where the 32nd President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built his Little White House, a cabin he used while suffering from polio in the 1930s.
“Vice President Biden has visited all of these battle states on various occasions,” Bedingfield said. “Yesterday he was in Pennsylvania, doing two events, along with Dr. [Jill] Biden. So no, we have been running a very aggressive campaign.
“Here’s the difference between what we are doing and what Donald Trump is doing, we are doing it safely.”
Bedingfield noted that the president’s rallies feature large crowds, mostly without masks, without social distancing.
Meanwhile, a new CBS poll showed Biden was tied with Trump in Georgia and had a slight lead on other southern battlefields, including Florida and North Carolina.
Todd also pressed Bedingfield about Biden’s comments in last week’s final debate on the oil industry. Why, it was asked, would oil workers in Texas or elsewhere support a candidate who supports a transition out of the industry at risk for their jobs?
“There is only one person in this country that Joe Biden believes should lose his job and that is Donald Trump,” he said.
“Joe Biden… is not going to end the fossil fuel industry, he is going to end subsidies for the oil industry. He believes that taxpayers’ money should go to education. Donald Trump thinks they should go to Exxon. That is a conversation we are willing to have any day. “
