South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
Biden to headline DNC rally one week before Election Day
President Joe Biden will headline a rally in South Florida for Democratic Party candidates on Nov. 1, one week before Election Day.
It’s slated as a “get out the vote” rally, where the president will discuss the choice that voters face in the election, a Democratic National Committee official said.
The DNC official didn’t have additional details on Saturday about precisely when and where the event will take place.
The rally is a separate event from a previously announced Biden stop in Fort Lauderdale on the same day in which he’ll participate in a fundraising reception for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist.
The events are relatively late in the campaign season. Floridians began voting by mail at the end of September and in-person early voting begins Monday.
Biden had planned to travel to Florida on Sept. 27, with a stop in Fort Lauderdale to talk about lowering health care costs and strengthening Medicare and Social Security and Orlando for a DNC rally.
But that was the day before Hurricane Ian struck Florida, and the visit was canceled.
On Oct. 5, he and first lady Jill Biden President visited southwest Florida to survey damage inflicted by the hurricane.
On Oct. 15, the first lady visited Plantation to urge women to get mammograms and to learn about advances in breast cancer research and treatment. Later that day, she visited Orlando to campaign for Crist and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Val Demings.
The Nov. 1 trip to Florida will be Biden’s third since becoming president. In 2021, he spent a day in South Florida meeting local officials coordinating the response to the collapse of the Champlain Towers
South Condominium in Surfside, speaking with first responders and consoling families of victims.
Biden’s last campaign appearances in Broward County were on Oct. 29, 2020, just five days before the presidential election. He held a rally at Broward College’s north campus in Coconut Creek and visited a campaign office on Sistrunk Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.