Two months after President Biden announced plans to seek reelection, his campaign operation is still very much a work in progress. No campaign headquarters has opened its doors. Only a handful of key staff are on the job. And the candidate has been — and plans to continue largely focusing on his day job.On Saturday in Philadelphia, the city where his 2020 campaign was based, it was instead the nation’s largest labor unions putting on his first public political event of his 2024 campaign.
And it’s not just unions. Earlier in the week, major environmental and climate-focused political organizations similarly announced their 2024 endorsements together. And next week, ahead of the first anniversary of the Supreme Court striking down constitutional protections for abortion, major women’s groups are expected to make a similar unified show of support for the Biden-Harris ticket.
“One of the important things about these early endorsements really is that these are membership organizations. The early communication, the early engagement with their members around the president’s record … is critically important to what comes ahead,” the adviser said. “So we view this as a hugely consequential week.”
With the Biden campaign’s voter organizing and turnout efforts not yet in place, unions are already at work — and much earlier than in the past.