Polls suggest the strategy may be working.
President Biden boards Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y., today. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Imagesto the Democratic base reveal a campaign that's currently more focused on energizing — or reclaiming — its core supporters than on making overtures to swing voters.running an ad focused
on concerns among many voters — including many Democrats — about his age. Biden speaks directly into the camera in that one.In April, Biden had two events with progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders .that he'll deliver the commencement address next month at Morehouse College, the historically Black institution in the swing state of Georgia.The recent strategy came after polls repeatedly showed that self-identified Democrats were less enthusiastic about Biden than Republicans are about Donald Trump.
Some aides felt the move leftward was necessary to keep the party unified with slim margins in Congress, but other Biden advisers still believe he ought to have been more aggressively centrist from the beginning.with an executive order — that would indicate he's willing to forsake his party's base to let swing voters know he appreciates their concerns on immigration and crime.
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