Democrats roll out multimillion investment in six battleground states
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is preparing to spend millions of dollars in six battleground states in a bid to expand the electoral map for the party’s eventual presidential nominee.
The multimillion-dollar investment will go toward adding new infrastructure and organizers in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — six states that President Trump carried in the 2016 presidential election and that Democrats see as key to defeating him in November.
The DNC funding, the first installation in the party's 2020 battleground spending, will allow the party to add new field offices and organizers in the battleground states, and expand its on-the-ground data operations, according to multiple committee officials.
The overarching goal of the investment is to give the eventual Democratic presidential nominee an assist after what is expected to be a long and potentially bruising primary season, as well as to help boost Democratic candidates down ballot.
Committee officials noted that the DNC could add new spending and states to its list of battlegrounds and that the electoral map could shift throughout the cycle.
The early investment is a change from 2016, when the party had no comparable program in place to assist Hillary Clinton in scaling up her political operations after she secured the presidential nomination.
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