President Trump began a two-day campaign swing through Florida on Thursday night — his second in his adopted home state in three weeks — with a rally at a Jacksonville airport.
“I’m working my ass off,” Trump told the crowd at Cecil Airport, noting he is barnstorming through battleground states as polls show Democratic rival Joe Biden holding leads in national polls and in key swing states.
He also implored the crowd to vote.
“Get your family, get your neighbors, get your co-workers and get out and vote,” he said. “We have to win this election, most important election we’ve ever had.”
On the heels of Bloomberg’s move, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody and state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis called for investigations into Bloomberg’s benevolence, which is aimed at registering voters.
And another liberal organization, Progressive Turnout Project, said it was working to erase Trump’s 2016 victory margin of 112,911 votes in Florida. The organization said it has obtained 37,699 commitments from voters who say they will cast a ballot from more than 70,000 letters and phone calls.
The group said 30% “of its targeted voter pool in Florida did not vote in 2016, and 50 percent of its targeted voter pool is Black or Latin[x].”
“Joe Biden needs Florida to win this election,” said Alex Morgan, executive director of Progressive Turnout Project, in a statement. “That’s why our team is having in-depth, one-on-one conversations with inconsistent Democratic voters in Florida who we need to turn out this fall. We are talking with voters about what motivates them and what’s at stake on the ballot, and helping them make and execute a plan to vote.”
