Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, are planning an accelerated in-person travel schedule and the campaign is ramping up its on-the-ground activities as the 2020 race hurtles into its homestretch. Top Biden advisers detailed the new strategy in a conference call on Friday and described the contest as fundamentally steady despite the volatility of the news environment.

In a wide-ranging briefing with members of the news media less than two months before Election Day, Mr. Biden’s team also expressed optimism about learning some voting outcomes on what many expect may be a chaotic election night.

Mr. Biden’s chief strategist, Mike Donilon, said that despite the onslaught from President Trump and Republicans during their party convention late last month, the campaign saw Mr. Biden entering the fall contest with his standing in the race largely unchanged, suggesting that the Republicans had not negatively defined him.

“It was imperative for him to move the election at this period,” Mr. Donilon said of Mr. Trump. Pointing to pre- and post-convention polls that showed Mr. Biden leading, he continued: “That didn’t happen. So I think that speaks to the vice president’s strength and I think it speaks to kind of the stability in the race.”

Source: New York Times

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