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Dem Notes
Latino outreach update: The Biden campaign has hired Latino Decisions, a national polling firm to further engage Latino voters. One priority: the Puerto Rican community in central Florida, whose turnout in 2018 was less than robust.
“We’re not taking anything for granted in this election.”—Jennifer Molina, Joe Biden’s Latino Media director.
This week Biden also addressed the nation’s largest Muslim American PAC, EmgageAction, at its online Million Muslim Votes Summit. Biden is the first presidential nominee to address the group, which has active chapters in Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Biden is now receiving intelligence briefings—just like the president. Word is, however, that Biden pays attention and reads the reports.
It’s still shy of the Green New Deal, but Biden’s $2 trillion climate-change plan—with a goal for entirely carbon pollution-free power by 2035 has gotten progressives’ attention. It would combat climate change and spur economic growth. Yes, tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations would be in the mix, as would deficit spending aimed at stimulating the economy. But, no, fracking hasn’t been mentioned.
“It’s almost self-defeating. People are exhausted. The president, with every tweet, every insult, will move himself out of favor with the demographic that he needs the most, which is the independent.”—Ron Christie, former adviser to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.