Biden campaign ramps up efforts to flip moderate Republicans in 2024

The effort by President Biden's campaign to target both supporters of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and moderate Republicans in general is ramping up. 

The Biden-Harris campaign announced Thursday the hire of Austin Weatherford — longtime chief of staff to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger — as a "national Republican engagement director," a Biden campaign official told CBS News. 

Weatherford will lead outreach efforts to "independents and moderate Republicans who know what a danger Donald Trump is to the country if reelected for a second term," according to the official.