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“The last time there was an abortion referendum on the ballot in 2012, President Obama won the state,” Michael Tyler, communications director for the Joe Biden -campaign, told reporters Monday. “So with our enormous financial advantage, the Biden-Harris campaign can afford to invest in many paths to victory, and that includes Florida .”The campaign’s remarks previewed its thinking ahead of a speech the president is giving Tuesday in Tampa on “reproductive rights.
The campaign did not offer a dollar amount for what it’s planning to spend in the Sunshine State — although the campaign has cash to burn. Biden has $155 million on hand to spend against Trump over the next seven months. “We take Florida very seriously. The idea that Donald Trump has the state in the bag could not be further from the truth,” Tyler said.flipped the state in 2008 and narrowly carried it with his reelection in 2012 — the year Florida voters rejected a ballot measureTrump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Biden’s visit to his home state while he’s tied up in court in New York City.
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