-Texas Dems made their case on conf call w Biden brass Thurs
-Sherrod is banging the drum for OH-IO
-Schumer says Biden told him he'll help in *non-prez battleground* Senate races >
nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/…
But...
it has 20 markets & Biden folks don't want to spend the $
nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/…
Biden is not spending in GA, TX, OH or IA
But how much Trump is spending, and where he's spending it, is as good a reveal...(more)
Last week, he only spent $110K in NM and nothing in NV or NH.
And while he did spend about $478K in MSP, he didn't buy time in any other MN markets. Also: the MSP market reaches to WI so the buy may have been mostly aimed there.
He only spent $150K in Michigan, entirely in the GR-Kalamazoo market (home of WOOD!) . Nothing in Detroit.
But he poured over $1.3M into Georgia and over $600K into Ohio, states where Biden isn't on the air
Obama '12: 44.6
Hillary '16: 50.2
Abrams '18: 56.6
If Biden nears 60% there and shaves rural margins even a little, he probably takes the state