President Biden’s re-election campaign has invested early in what operatives say is a robust operation of campaign surrogates, most of which reside outside the White House.
. And an over-reliance on them could open Biden to criticism that he’s reprising the so-called “basement campaign” of 2020 because he’s unable or unwilling to hit the stump himself.
The campaign’s core surrogates — its six co-chairs and the 50 members of its National Advisory Board, plus Vice President Kamala Harris — were chosen not just for loyalty or stature or political needs, but because they all agreed to be available and do the work. Jim Messina, who ran Obama’s re-election campaign, said surrogates are critical to fundraising efforts and as outside validators for an electorate increasingly cynical about politics. And the sheer number of media and social media platforms these days means the campaign needs lots of help to reach them all, he said.
“I still think he’s our best bet in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Wisconsin to win those states,” Khanna, who has been traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire as he eyes a potential future presidential bid, said of Biden on NBC News'"Meet the Press" last month. Four years ago, Republicans mocked and Democrats fretted about Biden’s pandemic-era “basement campaign,” when the candidate largely eschewed in-person events in favor of Zoom meetings and recorded video messages. And he would hardly be the first incumbent president to wage a so-called “Rose Garden campaign” that focuses more on governing from the White House than barnstorming in a swing state.
But allies say the president should try to stay about the fray of the campaign and leave the messier work of responding to Trump and other Republicans to them.
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