Jill Biden to campaign in Georgia next week
BOCA RATON, FL - OCTOBER 05: Dr. Jill Biden speaks at a 'Women for Biden' drive-in rally at Century Village in Boca Raton on October 5, 2020 in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Biden joined the Women for Biden drive-in rally to support her husband and Democr
ATLANTA - Jill Biden will visit the Peach State Monday, making stops in Atlanta and Columbus to mark the start of Georgia's early-voting period, the Biden campaign confirmed.
This will be the first in-person trip to the state from either of the Bidens since Joe won the party’s nomination earlier this year.
Biden is complementing the expanded campaign travel with a late-stage ad push, reserving more than $6 million in television airtime in Texas — for decades deeply red — through the end of October, according to an Associated Press analysis of CMAG data. He also plans to spend $4 million on advertising in Georgia, another Republican-leaning state that Democrats are feeling bullish about.
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Trump, meanwhile, has scaled back advertising in both states and has begun doing the same in Ohio, which he also won in 2016.
Jill Biden is expected in Georgia on October 12.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.