Republicans in swing states are warning Donald Trump that he’s not getting out the vote.
When Joe Biden entered the race, Donald Trump thought the election was over. Trump has never bothered to develop or invest in get-out-the-vote operations in swing states. Instead, he left those efforts to private conservative groups, but Biden No longer running, now the former president has a big problem.
The Washington Post reports:
when trump Although he has repeatedly said Republican officials need to focus only on the integrity of the election, he has begun hearing from outside allies that he has no major ground operations in key battleground states. He chafed at the attention some media paid to his campaign staff, suggesting to others that his advisers were getting too much credit. Some advisers urged him to spend more money on digital advertising, saying he was under attack online.
Here’s how bad things actually are for Trump in swing states, “With less than 100 days until the election, local Republican officials in battleground states are sounding the alarm about the Trump campaign’s sparse field staff. As is often the case in presidential elections With legions of paid volunteers and lobbyists driving turnout, the campaign relied heavily on outside groups such as America First Works, American Political Action Committee and Turning Point Action. “
Field workers on the ground are the ones driving turnout in battleground states. Without people or organized offices, no one can vote.
By comparison, here’s what happened in the two states the Harris-Walz campaign visited Friday through the Harris campaign: Arizona and Nevada:
The Harris-Walz team has more than 25 coordinated campaign offices in Arizona and Nevada with more than 220 full-time staff members.
In Nevada, we are conducting the largest coordinated intrastate operation ever, with 13 offices and nearly 100 field staff. We’ve also seen an unprecedented level of volunteer enthusiasm over the past few weeks: just hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced her presidential campaignmore than 600 volunteers signed up to support the event. Shortly after Vice President Harris announced her candidacy, the campaign held a weekend of operations involving more than 1,000 volunteers, reaching nearly 50,000 voters across the state through door-to-door visits and phone calls.
In Arizona, the campaign has 12 coordinating offices and will add six more, the most coordinated offices in Arizona history. The campaign has hired more than 120 full-time employees with offices in every corner of the state, from border communities like Nogales to rural areas like Kingman. Vice President Harris, who has a proven record of delivering a popular message on issues that matter most to voters, is enjoying a surge of support in Arizona in the form of volunteer registrations and endorsements. Since July 21, 20,899 Arizonans have registered online for the event. During a weekend of operations in July, the campaign and the Arizona Democratic Party coordinated with the campaign to launch 26 get-out-the-vote efforts and held a total of 67 events from rural Arizona to downtown Phoenix.
Harris and Walz have hundreds of paid staff in both states to contact voters and get out the vote. Trump hopes outside groups can fill his void.
If this election remains close, the ground game will determine who wins and who loses, and without a strong coordinated effort, Republicans could be headed for the disaster that Donald Trump has caused by dismantling the party’s ground game.
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