Joe Biden is Not Running to Win.

Unfortunately, his campaign strategy has made it abundantly clear the former Vice President is not interested in victory.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJun 21, 2020

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to supporters during a campaign stop at Berston Field House in Flint, Michigan on March 9, 2020.

Given everything that’s been going on over the course of the past four months alone, it’s frankly been difficult to give the fact that there’s an impending presidential election coming up in November the attention it deserves. But nevertheless, every so often something will catch my eye and remind me not just of everything we have at stake as a nation, but how ill prepared the democratic party and our lawmakers overall are meet this moment. In this instance, the reminder came in the form of a tweet.

It was a tweet from the Republican party’s communication director Michael Ahrens, with a link to a Bloomberg article attached. In the tweet, Ahrens said:

19 weeks out, and Biden has no state directors in PA, MI, FL, NC, WI, NV, IA, OH, GA, MN, CO, NH… No enthusiasm + no ground game = recipe for disaster on Election Day. RNC/Trump have had 17 state directors for 2 years and 1,100+ field staff. #LeadRight

In the article attached to the tweet, Tyler Pager and Jennifer Epstein write:

“Joe Biden’s campaign has only begun to hire top officials in key states, leaving him without senior staff in…

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Lauren Elizabeth
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Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx