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Inside Biden’s Anti-Trump Battle Plan (and Where Taylor Swift Fits In) [1]

['Reid J. Epstein', 'Lisa Lerer', 'Katie Glueck', 'Katie Rogers']

Date: 2024-01-29  

As former President Donald J. Trump speeds toward the Republican nomination, President Biden is moving quickly to pump energy into his re-election bid, kicking off what is likely to be an ugly, dispiriting and historically long slog to November between two unpopular nominees.

After months of languid buildup in which he held only a single public campaign event, Mr. Biden has thrown a series of rallies across battleground states, warning that democracy itself is at stake in 2024.

He sent two of his most trusted White House operatives to take the helm of his re-election campaign in Wilmington, Del., after Mr. Trump seized control of the Republican primary race more rapidly than Mr. Biden’s advisers had initially expected.

And other Biden aides are drafting wish lists of potential surrogates, including elected officials, social media influencers and the endorsement of their wildest dreams: the global superstar Taylor Swift.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/biden-trump-election-taylor-swift.html

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