President Biden and Vice President Harris are set to travel to every battleground state in March as part of his reelection campaign’s effort to ramp up after Super Tuesday and the State of the Union, the campaign announced Friday.
Biden will travel to New Hampshire on Monday, Wisconsin on Wednesday and Michigan on Thursday, according to the campaign.
Ahead of that, he will visit Pennsylvania on Friday and Georgia on Saturday, directly following his State of the Union address, and more travel to battleground states will be announced throughout the month.
The campaign has deemed March the “I’m on Board” Month of Action, which includes the travel from Biden, Harris and key officials and surrogates, as well efforts to expand volunteer engagement and scale up battleground staff.
The campaign will launch a $30 million six-week advertising spend, which is more spending in six weeks than it did in all of 2023 after the president announced his reelection bid in April.
Campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon called March a “key juncture” and said Friday that the campaign is ready to move forward, highlighting that Biden and Harris “are going to get out there every day.”
During the State of the Union address, Biden had the best fundraising day since the launch in April. In the 9 p.m. hour, the campaign saw its strongest fundraising hour and that record was then broken in the 10 p.m. hour and again in the 11 p.m. hour, according to communications director Michael Tyler.
Additionally, in the 24 hours after Super Tuesday, when Biden almost swept in the Democratic primary contests, the campaign raised $1.5 million, campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez announced.
To expand the battleground state staffing, the campaign in March is opening 100 new offices and adding at least 350 new staff members across several states. To grow its volunteer base, the campaign is launching the “I’m on Board” campaign, which will include regular trainings to volunteers and providing opportunities for volunteers like engaging directly with voters to sharing digital content and phone banking.
After Super Tuesday, the Biden campaign has tried to court supporters of Republican Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race Wednesday. O’Malley Dillon said Friday that former President Trump has not showed he is focused on expanding his base of voters, like they want to.
“In order to win, he’s got to expand his base of voters to find new people to be with him. And that is not something he’s shown that he’s really focused on. It. You saw Nikki Haley come out, leave the race this week and instead of wrapping his arms around them like we certainly have, Trump has really mocked her supporters,” she said.
O’Malley Dillon said, in contrast, that Biden argued in his State of the Union that he is the president for all Americans.
“That’s always been a hallmark of the president and how he’s really looked to expand the coalition that helped elect him in the first place and historic numbers and we’re going to continue to do that,” she said.
After the State of the Union, Biden administration officials kicked off a two-week travel blitz with more than two dozen trips throughout March to states including Arizona, Florida and Texas.