In many key states with crucial Senate, House and gubernatorial races, Democrats are carefully managing their association with the president.
U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan, speaks at the UAW Local 12 union rally in Toledo, Ohio, on August 20, 2022.After voting for the bipartisan computer chip manufacturing bill earlier this year, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, was one of several lawmakers with President Joe Biden on Friday in Licking County to mark the groundbreaking of Intel's new semiconductor chip factory.
"The more Republican-leaning the state is, the less likely [candidates] would want to appear with Biden and I think that makes a big difference," Democratic pollster and strategist Brad Bannon told ABC News, adding that there's also a secondary reason besides campaigning in swing states that may impact a candidate's decision to be seen with the president.
"I'm running as an independent-minded person who's taken on President Obama, who's taken Nancy Pelosi, has taken on Bernie Sanders but also agreed with Trump on trade and China and General Mattis and other things," Ryan said."People want an independent-minded person, they don't want someone who's just going to pull the lever with their own party, and I will be capable of saying 'no' to my own party.
"I think we absolutely have to be very clear about speaking out about that," the congressman told ABC News. But the president's improvement in job rating and recent successful legislative efforts in Congress such as passing the CHIPS and Science Act, which the White House has said will help boost more American-made manufacturing as well as create more jobs, have changed the minds of some Democrats, who, Bannon said, just a couple of months ago may have steered away from appearing and associating themselves with the president.
Bannon said Barnes' absence was "clearly a snub" but that the president is not the only reason why the lieutenant governor did not go to the speech. Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman appeared with Biden for the first time on Monday, after two prior visits by the president to the state. In a tweet, Fetterman's director of communications seemed to suggest some policy differences between the president and the candidate, including on the issue of marijuana decriminalization. Cavello said that, upon the men's first meeting on the campaign trail, they would discuss the topic.
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