2024 Watch: First Iowa, now New Hampshire – are Biden’s trips sending reelection signals?

President Biden heads to New Hampshire on Tuesday to showcase the investments his administration’s making in the important thing basic election battleground state by means of the huge bipartisan infrastructure measure he signed into legislation final autumn.

And whereas 2022 politics might be within the air – the president will crew up with Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, who’s being closely focused by Republicans as she runs for reelection in November’s midterms – Biden’s journey to the state that for a century’s held the primary presidential main within the White Home race can even doubtless shine a highlight on the 2024 race and whether or not he’ll search a second time period.

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Biden’s go to to New Hampshire might be his second since taking on within the White Home. Final November, the president made the Granite State his first cease to promote the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure that he had signed into legislation two days earlier. And Tuesday’s go to comes every week after he stopped in Iowa, the state whose caucuses have kicked off the presidential nominating calendar for half a century.

Whereas the stops in New Hampshire and Iowa are official journeys to push coverage, Democratic strategists say that marketing campaign politics performs closely when it comes choices on the president’s travels.

“There isn’t any determination that the White Home makes about the place to ship the president that does not have some form of political consideration. They are not selecting these locations accidentally, ever,” a Democratic strategist with ties to Biden world who requested to stay nameless to talk extra freely instructed Fox Information.

One other marketing consultant accustomed to Biden world who additionally requested for anonymity mentioned that “if somebody’s telling you that nobody on the White Home has thought of political impression of any journey the president makes, they most likely have a bridge to promote you.”

And the marketing consultant famous that “it’s not shocking that the president would head to a few of these early states now to put the groundwork” forward of any reelection marketing campaign.

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Biden, who’s 79, made historical past in November 2020 when he turned the oldest particular person ever elected president. If he campaigns for re-election in 2024 and wins, Biden can be 82 at his second inaugural and 86 on the finish of his second time period.

Requested over a 12 months in the past on the first formal information convention of his presidency about his 2024 plans, Biden mentioned, “My reply is sure. I plan on working for re-election. That’s my expectation.” 

And he mentioned in an interview with ABC Information in December that “If I am within the well being I am in now, if I am in good well being, then the truth is, I’d run once more.”

New Hampshire has held the first-in-the-nation presidential main for a century. An indication outdoors the state capitol in Harmony, NH marks the state’s treasured main standing.
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The president’s journey to New Hampshire comes lower than every week after the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) moved to upend their 2024 presidential nominating calendar, which can knock Iowa and New Hampshire from the leadoff positions they’ve held for many years. 

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If Biden takes questions from native reporters throughout his journey, it’s doubtless he’ll face questions on the DNC’s transfer.

Pompeo stops in Iowa

The president is not the one potential 2024 contender making back-to-back journeys to Iowa and New Hampshire.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who’s mulling a GOP presidential nomination run, was in Iowa on Wednesday. Pompeo, a former congressman from Kansas who served as CIA director and later as America’s high diplomat throughout former President Donald Trump’s administration, teamed up in Council Bluffs, Iowa with Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra, who’s working for reelection this 12 months.

Pompeo’s journey to Iowa got here every week after he stopped in New Hampshire to headline the Hillsborough County GOP’s annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner.

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Pompeo’s been busy over the previous 12 months, crisscrossing the nation to assist elevate cash and assist fellow Republicans working within the midterm elections. His travels have already taken him 5 instances over the previous 12 months to Iowa and 3 times to New Hampshire. And he’s additionally made visits to South Carolina and Nevada, which maintain the third and fourth contests within the GOP schedule.

In an interview with Fox Information throughout his New Hampshire cease, Pompeo reiterated that any determination would come after November’s midterms. And he mentioned, “My spouse and I’ll suppose and work and pray and decide about whether or not we’re going to reenter public service placing ourselves ahead to be holding elective workplace.”

However Pompeo, a Fox Information contributor, famous that the chums he makes now throughout these journeys to the early voting states may probably pay dividends down the street.

“We’re at all times within the enterprise of constructing pals as a result of it’s by means of friendships and relationships that you just develop good outcomes that matter,” he mentioned. “I’ve been on this struggle for conservative insurance policies since I used to be a younger child and it at all times makes a distinction that you’ve got pals and allies and companions and colleagues and individuals who consider in factor that you just’re engaged on and care about.”

Scott to NH, Haley to Iowa

Two different potential Republican White Home hopefuls might be making new stops within the early voting main and caucus states.

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Fox Information was first to report that Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee and a former two-term Florida governor, might be in New Hampshire on Might 20 to headline the Sullivan County GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner.

Former Ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley campaigns on behalf of GOP congressional candidate Matt Mowers of New Hampshire, at an occasion on April 4, 2022 in Derry, N.H.
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And former two-term South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations through the Trump administration, heads to Iowa on June 29 to talk on the state GOP’s Dubuque Regional Reception. 

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Haley stopped in New Hampshire earlier this month to marketing campaign and lift cash for fellow Republicans working on this 12 months’s elections.

Hogan’s conservative achievements touted

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will not be working for something this 12 months, however that’s not stopping allies of the term-limited Republican governor from spotlighting his conservative file and achievements throughout his last 12 months in workplace.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan introduced he won’t run for U.S. Senate throughout a information convention on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 in Annapolis, Md.
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In a minute-long digital advert shared first with Fox Information on Wednesday, the pro-Hogan public advocacy group An America United touts what it calls the outgoing Maryland governor’s “actual management” and “historic outcomes.”

An America United says their video, backed by a modest advert purchase, will run digitally throughout the nation.