(CNN) Joe Biden's campaign is redeploying significant resources this week to Nevada and South Carolina, placing a heavier concentration in the states as the former vice president tries to regain his footing in the 2020 race following a pair of disappointing finishes in the first two early nominating contests, CNN has learned.

A Biden campaign official tells CNN the campaign will redeploy nearly 50 additional staffers to Nevada and South Carolina by this weekend, with some of those staffers being sent from their operations in Super Tuesday states.

The redeployment will bring the total number of staff on the ground in Nevada to more than 130 and more than 60 in South Carolina.

The campaign official said there is a plan to quickly get those staffers back to Super Tuesday states when those nominating contests are complete.

The Biden campaign views the redeployment as a strategic investment in states they believe will provide Biden with a path to the nomination and ones they argue are more reflective of the Democratic Party.

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