Biden campaign ramps up efforts to flip moderate Republicans in 2024
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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.
Washington — An independent panel tasked with reviewing the July assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, found the Secret Service suffers from "deep flaws" that enabled the attack at the Trump campaign rally, and called for the agency to undergo "fundamental reform" to carry out its mission of protecting top government officials around the world.
There is a new wave of calls for Congress to return to Washington to respond to the growing costs of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Multiple members of Congress from hurricane-ravaged states have issued new calls for the U.S. House and Senate to respond to the depletion of funds from the U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loan fund.