Bloomberg campaign hiring ahead of Pennsylvania primary

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Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has begun hiring dozens of staff members in Pennsylvania, an aggressive move in a late primary state where his chief competitors for the Democratic Party’s nomination have inroads.

The campaign, which announced the hirings Wednesday, has brought on about 35 staffers in Pennsylvania and has a goal of hiring more than 90 staffers and opening a dozen campaign offices, the campaign’s state director, Kevin Kinross, said.

“We’re running really a general election campaign right now,” Kinross said in an interview. “We’re on the ground early. ... Michael Bloomberg feels that Donald Trump is basically running unopposed in the key states that are needed to win the White House in November, so we’re here early, we’re building the campaign, we’re building the infrastructure and we plan to compete for votes now.”

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is Bloomberg’s national political chairman, and Bloomberg already has TV commercials running across Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania’s primary election is April 28.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bloomberg-campaign-hiring-ahead-of-pennsylvania-primary/2020/01/15/0277cd00-37f4-11ea-a1ff-c48c1d59a4a1_story.html