Biden camp two weeks ago: we don't need to door knock and people don't want us to knock on their doors.
Biden today: this weekend will dispatch several hundred newly trained volunteers to knock doors across Nevada, Michigan, NH, and Pennsylvania
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This is a huge reversal for the Biden camp which attacked Trump camp for knocking
DNC in August:
"Trump campaign is risking the lives of their staff, the lives of voters, and risking becoming a super spreader organization during the middle of a pandemic."
Biden campaign manager to @apalmerdc and @JakeSherman last month
“I know the republicans want to say we have a million door knocks a week. Well that doesn’t really matter.”
Biden campaign’s states director Jenn Ridder to Wapo last month: “Donald Trump’s voter outreach fails to understand the concerns of Americans right now...He is blatantly having events. He is blatantly going to doors."
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Biden camp to me in August:
“At first I was nervous, but our response rates on phone calls and texts are much higher and people are not necessarily wanting someone to go up to their door right now"
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Biden CM to reporters three weeks ago: "While you might hear our opponent spend a lot of time talking about the millions of door knocks or attempts that they're making week to week, those metrics actually don't have any impact on reaching voters"
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From the Biden camp, these are their planned safety measures, some of which go beyond what the Trump camp is doing by including temperature checks, symptom questionaires, and a text msg program (which seems like it would be hard to implement).
earlier this week from Biden spokesperson
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