First lady Jill Biden is visiting Minnesota on Friday to rally educators and women voters for President Joe Biden's re-election campaign.
Jill Biden, a community college educator who has worked in the classroom for more than 30 years, is scheduled to speak Friday night at Education Minnesota's annual conference in Bloomington. The campaign said the convention will launch “Educators for Biden-Harris,” a national organizing program to “engage and mobilize teachers, school staff, and parents” in the presidential election. .
Education Minnesota is the state's largest union representing the state's teachers, and its political action committee has consistently been one of the biggest supporters of Democratic campaigns in Minnesota, with $5.2 million in the 2022 midterm elections. are spending.
She also hosts events for women voters in Bloomington. Jill Biden visited the state several times to campaign for her husband during the 2020 election.
In 2020, Joe Biden decisively defeated Donald Trump in Minnesota by more than 7 percentage points. However, recent polls from KSTP show that Biden and Trump are in a statistical dead heat this term, with Biden's lead over the former president within the poll's margin of error.
That could force Mr. Biden and his surrogates to campaign in Minnesota this year, despite the state's long history of supporting Democratic presidential candidates.
Mr. Biden has hired three veteran political operatives to manage his campaign in Minnesota. Rep. Tom Emmer is President Trump's Minnesota campaign chairman and is developing a plan aimed at swinging the state to Republicans this fall.
