by Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Joe Biden was expected in the state of Pennsylvania on Friday to launch his electoral campaign as his team plans an advertising budget of $30 million (27.42 million euros).
After Pennsylvania on Friday, the day after his State of the Union speech, Joe Biden must travel to the state of Georgia on Saturday, to New Hampshire on Monday, to Wisconsin on Wednesday before Michigan on Thursday.
American Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Arizona on Friday and Nevada on Saturday.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will go in March to meet Democratic voters in the “swing states”, these states which sometimes vote Democratic, sometimes Republican, where the outcome of the November 5 vote will be decided once again this year, have officials of the American president’s campaign announced to journalists.
The latter said they expected a tight race between Joe Biden, 81, and his predecessor in the White House Donald Trump, 77, neck and neck in the polls to win the 270 voters needed for the election. presidential election.
“We firmly believe that this race will be won in the key states that will be decisive in winning the 270 electors, and everything we are doing this month to launch the election is in this direction,” declared Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Joe Biden’s campaign manager.
The US president’s deputy campaign director, Rob Flaherty, announced that $30 million would be invested in advertising campaigns in the next six weeks. This is a higher amount than for all of 2023.
Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Thursday evening triggered the biggest day of fundraising for the outgoing president, according to Rob Flaherty, who did not, however, provide figures.
More than 42 million dollars (38.39 million euros) were collected in January by Joe Biden’s team, which has 130 million dollars (118.82 million euros) in liquidity for the electoral campaign.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw; French version Zhifan Liu, editing by Sophie Louet)
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