Actually?
Trump and company, which up to now had been short on cash, and has a candidate that has $850M in outstanding civil fines has OUT SOURCED their ground , get out the vote operation….
Biden and Democrats have a well funded and up and running operation across the states already….
Trump’s group will focus JUST on Republicans NOT swing and Indie voters….
Remember Trump’s ‘It’s Rigged’ crying?….
Hmmm?
We are in an era of nail-biter presidential elections. In 2020, Joe Biden won three states by less than a percentage point, including Wisconsin, the state that notched him an Electoral College victory. In 2016, that exact statement applied to Donald Trump. Polls today suggest 2024 will be similarly close. The get-out-the-vote operations, the so-called “ground game,” may determine the outcome in November.
This is why it’s bonkers that the Trump campaign has outsourced its ground game to far-right operators with no track record of success.
CNN reported that “Donald Trump’s campaign is taking a vastly different approach to 2024 compared with 2020, with plans for fewer staff and expenses [and instead] relying on wealthy conservative groups for data, infrastructure, and significant bank accounts.” It further noted that one of the most important of these groups is Turning Point Action, part of the Turning Point network that began with Turning Point USA.
Turning Point USA is a right-wing student group founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, an 18-year-old soon-to-be college dropout, and Bill Montgomery, an elderly Tea Party activist. ..
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In some progressive circles, base-only strategies have been trendy in recent years. But Democratic leaders have largely eschewed such insular thinking and kept courting swing voters, which paid off in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
If Trump’s ground game grifters ignore the swing, they risk ceding a critical voting bloc to Biden.
Note….
Polls ARE Polls….Votes…Actual show up, and votes, ARE what make the election choice….