Joe Biden campaign said Democrats can win without key swing states

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The campaign of Joe Biden believes it can win even if it loses in some key swing states as Americans head to the polls. On Tuesday, Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon informed reporters and said, “We continue to have multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes”. It includes scenarios that don’t include Biden winning Florida or Pennsylvania. Both states went for Donald Trump in 2016, but have been eyed as toss-ups in 2020. Ms. O’Malley Dillon added, “Trump has such a harder hill to climb today to overcome the advantage we came in with”. It has also been pouring time and resources into trying to take Pennsylvania while the campaign may be confident.

The first campaign stop of Joe Biden after announcing his candidacy a year and a half ago was in western Pennsylvania. Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris crisscrossed the state on Monday making a final push to voters. President Trump also spent the day before the election racing through a number of battleground states like North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. He delivered his words at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and said, “I think we win this state. We win Pennsylvania. We’re going to win Florida. We’re going to win the whole thing”. According to poll aggregates from RealClearPolitics, the president is leading in swing states like Iowa, Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina.

But, Biden maintains an expected 7.2% lead nationally, a 1.2% lead in Pennsylvania, and a razor-thin .09% lead in Arizona and Florida. The Biden campaign also said in a briefing that polling places in states like Florida, Wisconsin, and North Carolina seemed to be running smoothly without major delays or large numbers of ballots being rejected. Campaign advisor Bob Bauer also argued that predictions from Republicans of mass chaos or fraud at the polls, as well as legal challenges to election rules, had thus far been unfounded. He said, “The courts recognize these last-minute hijinks for what it is. They’re designed to generate the appearance of a cloud over the election. They are not in fact bonafide legal claims against voters”.