{"id":2230094,"date":"2024-04-25T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-opens-first-field-office-in-florida-as-campaign-gains-ground-in-state\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:51:58","slug":"biden-opens-first-field-office-in-florida-as-campaign-gains-ground-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-opens-first-field-office-in-florida-as-campaign-gains-ground-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Campaign Expands in Florida with First Field Office Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-opens-first-field-office-in-florida-as-campaign-gains-ground-in-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2230094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign views Florida as\u2063 a winnable state and has launched its first \u2063field office in\u2062 Hillsborough\u200d County, a pivotal area that heavily influenced past elections. With Republicans \u2063making gains in voter registrations, Democrats are concerned and see winning Hillsborough \u200bCounty crucial for their future prospects \u2062in \u2064Florida. Biden&#8217;s recent focus on abortion rights in \u200cTampa resonates with voters amidst the \u2062state&#8217;s restrictive six-week abortion \u2064ban controversy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>After President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> campaign recently declared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Florida<\/a> \u201cwinnable,\u201d it has opened its first field office in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The office is in Hillsborough County, the third-largest county in Florida, which contains most of Tampa. The county has voted Democrat in the past two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>elections<\/a>, but Republicans are gaining ground in voter registrations there.<\/p>\n<p>That has worried Democrats, with one campaign strategist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/tampa-bay\/2024\/04\/25\/biden-campaign-field-office-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>telling<\/a> <em>Axios<\/em> the county must be won in order for the party to have \u201cany future life-force\u201d in Florida. Hillsborough County <a href=\"https:\/\/enr.electionsfl.org\/HIL\/2772\/Summary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>contributed<\/a> 376,367 votes for Biden in 2020, the fifth-highest count for the Democrat in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Biden recently campaigned in Tampa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthood-to-spend-10-million-on-democrats-in-north-carolina\/\" title=\"Planned Parenthood to invest  million in North Carolina's Democratic Party\">emphasizing abortion rights<\/a> in the wake of Florida\u2019s six<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vogue-magazine-help-freezing-texans-by-paying-for-their-travel-to-get-an-abortion\/\" title=\"Vogue Magazine: Help Freezing Texans By Paying For Their Travel To Get An Abortion\">-week abortion ban<\/a>, which is set to go into effect next week. A majority of voters in Florida say the six<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-places-ban-on-steven-crowder-over-makhia-bryant-video-crowder-look-what-youtube-does-allow\/\" title=\"YouTube Places Ban On Steven Crowder Over Ma\u2019Khia Bryant Video; Crowder: Look What YouTube Does Allow\">-week ban<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4588782-poll-floridians-six-week-abortion-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>too strict<\/a>, according to a recent poll.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden criticized former President Donald Trump&#8217;s abortion stance during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-circuit-breaker-on-election-night\/\" title=\"The question looms: just how does it come to be that three quarters of Republican and nearly one third of Democrat voters all believe that the election was stolen from Trump?\">campaign event<\/a> in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday. The state is expected to enforce a six-week abortion ban next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UDRQrC5qHz\">pic.twitter.com\/UDRQrC5qHz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSEveningNews\/status\/1782907012201771474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A November referendum to solidify abortion rights in the state has driven the Biden campaign\u2019s optimism in the state, which former President Donald Trump won in the past two election cycles and where Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.270towin.com\/states\/Florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>made gains<\/a> in four out of the last six election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida is ground zero in the fight for our rights and fundamental freedoms, and we\u2019re not taking anything for granted,\u201d Jasmine Burney-Clark, the Biden campaign\u2019s top staffer in Florida, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/tampa-bay\/2024\/04\/25\/biden-campaign-field-office-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden continues to blast Trump\u2019s self-praise on the overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, though the former president has recently softened his abortion stance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s wrong,\u201d Biden said at the Tampa rally. \u201cThe Supreme Court was wrong. It should be a constitutional right in the federal Constitution. It\u2019s not about states\u2019 rights \u2014 it\u2019s about women\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent polls still have Trump winning <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/president-general\/2024\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>handily<\/a> in the state, though one <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4620441-trump-tops-biden-by-just-two-points-in-new-florida-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>released <\/a>Thursday showed Biden closing the gap.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, eyeing Florida as a winnable state, inaugurates its inaugural field office in Hillsborough County. The county, primarily covering Tampa, has historically favored Democrats but is witnessing a surge in Republican voter registrations, adding intrigue to the upcoming elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24114697925754-1-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24114697925754-1-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}