Biden's re-election strategy: Friends in high places.

President Joe Biden plans to rely heavily on a team of campaign surrogates to help him win re-election, investing early in an unusually robust operation to tap the star power of the Democratic Party. The campaign has already coordinated over 185 interviews in a wide variety of national and local media, in both English and Spanish, and hopes to break through in a fractured media landscape. The core surrogates were chosen not just for loyalty or stature or political needs, but also because they all agreed to be available and do the work. However, an overreliance on surrogates could open Biden to criticism that he’s reprising the so-called “basement campaign” of 2020 because he’s unable or unwilling to hit the stump himself.