Aug 14, 2024 - Politics & Policy
Ditching Chicago
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The Senate's three most vulnerable Democrats are skipping next week's DNC in Chicago — an effort to fence their campaigns off from the top of the ticket.
- Sens. Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Jacky Rosen (Nev.) plan to campaign back home instead, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Vice President Harris and running-mate Tim Walz are both from the party's liberal wing. That's pushing endangered Democrats to localize their campaigns whenever they can, in an effort to project a moderate face.
- Brown and Tester both represent states Trump handily won twice, meaning they'll all-but-certainly have to outperform Harris by significant margins to stave off their GOP opponents on Nov. 5.
- Rosen also may need to outrun Harris in swing-state Nevada, which President Biden won in 2020 by less than 3 percentage points.
