Washington Post: “Joe Biden’s team is making a special push in the closing days of the presidential campaign to find and motivate Democrats who voted in 2012 but stayed home in 2016, hoping he gets a crucial boost from this inconsistent group of supporters. ‘They’re being very strategic. More strategic than the Clinton campaign was in 2016,’ said Donna Brazile, a Biden ally and former head of the Democratic National Committee, who noted that the campaign has asked her to focus on these voters. The effort reflects a broader reality for Democrats: Many of the voters who were energized to come to the polls for Barack Obama did not turn out for Hillary Clinton, contributing heavily to her loss. Now the party wants to do all it can to ensure that this year’s election resembles those in earlier years more than the one in 2016.”

“‘You have to go back to those states and grab those people — they’re the easy catch,’ Brazile said. She noted that they already cast a ballot for Biden when he was Obama’s running mate. Relatively few undecided voters remain in the final stretch of an election that has electrified people on both sides. That is prompting both campaigns to redouble their efforts to find any remaining voters they can still mobilize. Biden’s effort includes digital targeting, phone calls and, in some places, in-person visits. Becca Siegel, the campaign’s chief analytics officer, said that because many reliable Biden voters have already cast their ballots early, the campaign is freer to focus on less likely voters, something it has been doing particularly in the past two weeks. ‘We can turn our attention to the lower-and-lower-propensity voters,’ Siegel said.”