Joe Biden 2020 campaign megathread v3 (pg 45 - mass-dropout aftermath)

[Mr. Morden]

Biden wants to make it easier for people to sue Dave Leip over stuff that trolls post on this forum:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/biden-calls-for-repeal-of-law-that-shields-internet-giants

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called for the repeal of Section 230, part of a U.S. law that protects internet companies from liability for content their users post online.

In an interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said companies should be responsible for libel on their platforms. The former vice president focused his ire on Facebook Inc., the largest social-media company, and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg.

Section 230, a provision of the Communications Decency Act passed in 1996, “should be revoked, immediately,” Biden said.

[Mr. Morden]

https://twitter.com/melbournecoal/status/1220514333223981063

From that story:

A 55-year-old woman of African and Indian descent with law enforcement credentials, Ms. Harris was already likely to be on Mr. Biden’s short list, should he emerge as the nominee. Yet she could bolster her chances to be his running mate if she backed his campaign at a critical time, particularly if he did not win in either Iowa or New Hampshire next month and needed a boost in Nevada and South Carolina. And even if she is not chosen for vice president, she would be a leading contender for a cabinet post, such as attorney general.
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The risk for Ms. Harris would be if she were to get behind Mr. Biden only to see him lose in California, which votes on March 3 as part of Super Tuesday. A survey of the state’s Democratic voters, conducted this month by the Public Policy Institute of California survey, found that Mr. Biden was in second place to Mr. Sanders, of Vermont. But the poll highlighted the strength of the progressive bloc in the state: Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren combined were capturing 50 percent of the vote.

Rose Kapolczynski, a longtime Democratic strategist in California, said Ms. Harris would not damage her prospects for re-election in 2022 by backing Mr. Biden. But if Democrats were to lose the presidency this fall, supporting him could shape how she was perceived by the left, were she to run again for president four years from now.

“It just depends on where she wants to go,” Ms. Kapolczynski said. “Is she interested in vice president or a cabinet position? Or is she looking ahead to another campaign and how she’ll be positioned then?”

The story also notes that Biden and Harris have “remained in contact since she exited the race and had a long conversation in the immediate aftermath of her departure.”

[Mr. Morden]

Biden team setting rather low expectations for NH:

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1225798615895101440

[Mr. Morden]

Biden is spending all of next week in South Carolina.  He'll be there from Feb. 24-29:

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1230671014922600448

which doesn't leave much time to campaign in Super Tuesday states.

I'm sure other candidates will spend a lot of time in SC next week, but presumably the rest will also be doing some Super Tuesday state campaigning.

[Mr. Morden]

Biden campaign announces Super Tuesday ad campaign, but it's only six figures....meaning he's spending markedly less on ads in Super Tuesday states than any other candidate except for Gabbard.  (E.g., Klobuchar's spending $3.5 million just on TV ads.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/biden-announces-six-figure-super-tuesday-ad-campaign/ar-BB10qRGC?ocid=st2

Joe Biden’s campaign is launching advertising in Super Tuesday states — but the small ad buy leaves the former vice president significantly outmatched by most of his Democratic rivals as 14 states prepare to vote on March 3.

The buy, details of which were shared first with POLITICO, primarily targets Southern states voting next week with ads touting the former vice president’s relationship with former President Barack Obama.

The campaign is airing a television ad that features Obama praising Biden in early 2017, when Obama awarded his right-hand man the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The ad will air in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia on shows and stations “that overperform with African American viewership,” according to the campaign — a constituency that Biden’s team believes remains a strength for their campaign and a decisive force in the Democratic nominating process.
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According to data compiled by Advertising Analytics, an ad tracking firm, Biden is spending by far the least on Super Tuesday TV ads out of all the candidates who participated in Tuesday night’s debate in South Carolina.

I guess the optimistic spin for Biden here is that some of the bottom polling candidates are spending themselves into oblivion on the hope that a polling miracle will happen, while Biden is conserving his $ because he actually expects to keep his campaign running all the way to the end of primary season?

[Mr. Morden]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/27/biden-super-pac-118000

A super PAC backing Joe Biden is making a “low six-figure” digital ad buy ahead of Super Tuesday, a small sum spread across 14 states just as Biden tries to reset his campaign with a win in the South Carolina primary.

The group, Unite the Country, spent more than $4.5 million in Iowa but has spent just $1.3 million in other places so far, according to Advertising Analytics, as Biden struggled in the earliest states and Bernie Sanders gained momentum in the Democratic primary. Biden’s campaign had to take a thrifty approach to Super Tuesday, preparing its own six-figure ad campaign only this week.
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Schale said the super PAC is focusing heavily on African American turnout and persuasion in five Super Tuesday states: North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee.

[Mr. Morden]

https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1233933496474882050

[Mr. Morden]

Biden campaign now up to $10 million raised online in the last two days:

https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1234299079573803010

[Mr. Morden]

Biden says his campaign has raised $33 million since the beginning of February:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/biden-fundraising-33-million-119252