the major and minor Presidential surrogates
Believe it it or not, Joseph Biden is out on the campaign hustlings. This, of course, follows where the Iowa Democratic candidate was asked if he would want Biden and Harris campaigning for him, and come an answer of “is he even still able?”. Biden is only let in to states too Democratic or too Republican to bother — South Dakota and Maryland, and deep in the well of speaking to activists with Planned Parenthood, but it does bring a smattering of footage to place side by side with Mitch McConnell’s last public communique when Louisiana’s Republican senator — or whoever — gives a response of “But Biden” when asked why McConnell isn’t and didn’t resign.
A more obvious figure anyone wants is Barack Obama, and I guess I’m the new stage he is a more effective surrogate for campaign appearances for Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate than Hassan Piker. He also makes his way to Ohio and Maine. I am a tad surprised he isn’t working his way to Minnesota or New Hampshire — the sort of shore up operation for probably winning underperforming Democratic candidates that have the parallel on why Trump is in South Carolina and Nebraska. Obama at least has an ad for the Senate candidate in Mississippi — somewhat the last candidate you can picture winning if you squint hard enough — which provides that bell curve — missing are the middle states — Trump is not going to get into Iowa, Alaska, Texas, Florida, or Kansas. (Yeah, he cut an ad for the Iowa Senate candidate in the primary race.)
Kamala Harris has stops over in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Mississippi, Georgia, and Nevada. And virtual space for Florida which — I guess that represents a bit of a half hearted toss out. Bernie Sanders is a lot more into Florida — alongside Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, as too Maine. Noteworthy that Bill Clinton has made his way to Florida — on behalf of the other Democrat on the ticket, the gubernatorial candidate — maybe the Senate candidate really doesn’t want him anyways. Hillary Clinton, before starting her podcast, made her way to Nebraska — a couple women in the Omaha area, and for a state whose Republicans always took pride that Bill Clinton visited that state as the 50th state he visited, the value of the defacto Democratic candidate in going ‘Independent’ comes to play — he has no reason to share that stage.
I guess the two biggies for the Republican side are Trump and Vance. A weird tag team — Trump goes off admiring the Michigan Republican Senate candidate’s ass while Vance calls the Texas Democratic Senate candidate gay.