Biden campaign launches nationwide effort to win women’s vote, with Jill Biden to lead it

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday that it is launching “Women for Biden-Harris,” a new nationwide program to mobilize and mobilize female voters to elect him and Vice President Kamala Harris to a second White House term. Used to be. Biden’s wife Jill will lead the effort.

Women were a key part of the coalition that elected Biden in 2020 and his campaign aims to regain that with a revitalized effort.

The first lady was scheduled to kick things off Friday by kicking off Women’s History Month with a weekend travel blitz through states that will be key to deciding November’s presidential election.

“Women put Joe into the White House four years ago, and women will do it again,” she said in a statement. “In our communities, women are the organisers, the planners, the organizers. We get the job done. That’s why we’re now launching ‘Women for Biden’ because when women organize, we win.

The first lady’s Friday to Sunday weekend tour will take her to Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin, all of which are among a handful of states that will decide whether Democrat Biden gets four more years in office or the Republican Party takes control of the White House Or not.

Former President Donald Trump is far ahead of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate and Biden’s rival.

Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said the stakes for women in this election “couldn’t be higher.” Women were key to Biden’s defeat of Trump in 2020.

Rodriguez said, “Americans will face a real choice at the ballot box this November between Joe and Kamala, who will stand up and fight for women and their freedoms every day, and Donald Trump who wants to take away our rights and freedoms.” ” in a statement. “Republicans have underestimated the power of women time and again, and this November, we will make sure they don’t make that mistake again.”

Biden’s campaign and Democrats want to make reproductive rights and women’s access to health care a central issue this year, motivated by a victory in the 2022 elections after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision. Has established constitutional rights. An abortion.

Trump takes credit for the high court’s decision because he nominated three justices who tilted the ideological balance of the bench to the right.

Separately, the Alabama Supreme Court stunned with a decision this month declaring embryos produced through in vitro fertilization to be children, leaving anyone who destroys them subject to possible criminal prosecution. Clinics in the state closed in response, denying women access to care.

Women were a key part of the coalition that elected Biden in 2020, giving him 55% of the vote, according to AP VoteCast. Black women and suburban women were pillars of Biden’s coalition, while Trump had a slight edge among white women and very There was widespread benefit. The share of white women without college degrees, according to an AP survey of more than 110,000 voters in that year’s election.

The campaign said Women for Biden-Harris will serve as top campaign surrogates as well as organize female volunteers across the country through digital and targeted ad buys. It was one of the largest coalitions for a campaign in 2020, the campaign said.

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