After President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both spent last campaigning weekend in Georgia ahead of the state’s primary Tuesday, the rest of the week for the two nominees were very different.
Biden’s embarked on a weeklong tour of five electoral battlegrounds. The president encountered swing-state voters at a high school gym, an industrial event space, an indoor tennis court, a Boys & Girls Club and a supporter’s front porch.
But the president came face to face with a relatively small number of supporters – much less undecided voters. The audiences for his speeches numbered in the hundreds, not thousands, and his invitation-only events were mainly intended for the party faithful and friendly local officials.
Advisers say the president’s first order of business is to excite Democrats and ease any concerns about his decision to run. His campaign is planning to dramatically scale up its brick-and-mortal presence in battleground states this month, and Biden is expected to make stops in Nevada and Arizona next week.
Meanwhile, Trump was in a Florida courtroom. The former president tried to get charges dismissed in his classified documents case, arguing that the law prosecutors used to charge him for allegedly retaining national defense records without authorization was too vague to be used against him. However, fewer than three hours after the hearing, Judge Aileen Cannon rejected that claim.
In Trump’s separate hush money case in New York, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said it’s willing to delay trial for up to 30 days, according to a court filing. The trial is currently scheduled to start on March 25.
Source: www.cnn.com