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Do Campaign Stops Actually Matter?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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After Tuesday’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have mathematically clinched their parties’ nominations. And now, it’s off to the races. Over the past week, Biden has made campaign stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump was also in Georgia last weekend and he’ll be in Ohio on Saturday. These kinds of campaign stops are a cornerstone of presidential campaigns and we can expect a lot more of them between now and November. There’s only one problem: According to political scientist Chris Devine, they don’t actually work. At least, not all that well and not in the ways you’d expect. In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, Devine talks about his recently published book called, “I’m Here to Ask for Your Vote: How Presidential Campaign Visits Influence Voters." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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After Tuesday's primaries President Biden and

0:44.9

former President Trump have mathematically clinched their party's nominations.

0:49.2

And now it's off to the races. In the week since his State of the Union address,

0:53.8

Biden is making campaign stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

0:59.7

Trump was also in Georgia over the weekend and he'll be in Dayton, Ohio this weekend.

1:04.8

These kinds of campaign stops are a cornerstone of presidential campaigns,

1:09.6

and we can expect a lot more of them between now and November.

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There's only one problem.

1:17.8

According to our guests today, they don't actually work,

1:20.8

at least not all that well, and not in the ways that you'd expect.

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Christopher Devine is a political science professor at the University of Dayton and he

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recently published a new book called I'm here to ask for your vote how presidential campaign visits influence

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voters he's also previously written about whether vice presidential picks

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matter all that much and he's here with us now to do some of the conventional wisdom busting that we love here at 538.

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