Republicans in battleground states are warning Donald Trump that he’s not doing enough on-the-ground outreach to get out the vote.
Donald Trump thought the election was over when Joe Biden was running. Trump never invested in or expanded voter turnout efforts in battleground states. Instead, he left these efforts to private conservative groups, while Biden is no longer running, and now the former president is in big trouble.
Trump Trump has repeatedly said Republican leaders need to focus solely on ensuring the integrity of the election, but he is beginning to hear from outside allies that he is not doing enough ground work in key battleground states. Trump has grown frustrated with the attention some media are giving his campaign staff, and some have suggested his advisers are over-valuing him. Trump has come under intense attack online, and some advisers have urged him to spend more on digital advertising.
Here’s how Things are bad for Trump in battleground states“With less than 100 days until the election, Republican local officials in battleground states are raising alarms about the Trump campaign’s thin field staff. Instead of the large paid and volunteer armies that typically canvass and canvass to boost voter turnout in presidential elections, the campaign is relying primarily on outside groups such as America First Works, USA PAC and Turning Point Action.”
Field staff are the people who drive voter turnout in battleground states. Without a staffed and organized office, no one can drive voter turnout.
In contrast, here’s how things are going for the Harris-Waltz campaign in the two states they’ll be visiting on Friday through the Harris campaign (Arizona and Nevada):
The Harris-Waltz campaign has more than 25 campaign offices throughout Arizona and Nevada with more than 220 full-time staff members.
In Nevada, with 13 offices and nearly 100 staff, we are running the largest coordinated campaign in the state to date, and over the past few weeks, volunteer enthusiasm has been at an all-time high, hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced her candidacy for president.More than 600 volunteers signed up to help the campaign. Shortly after Vice President Harris announced her candidacy, the campaign held a weekend of activities in which more than 1,000 volunteers joined the campaign, knocking on doors and making phone calls to reach approximately 50,000 voters across the state.
In Arizona, the campaign has 12 affiliate offices with six more on the way, the most in the history of the Arizona affiliate campaign. The campaign employs more than 120 full-time staffers, with offices in every corner of the state, from border towns like Nogales to rural areas like Kingman. Vice President Harris has a popular message and a strong track record on issues that matter most to voters, and she has seen growing support in Arizona in the form of volunteer registrations and endorsements. Since July 21, 20,899 Arizonans have applied to join the campaign online. And during the July weekend drive, the affiliate campaign and the Arizona Democratic Party held 26 campaign stops and a total of 67 events, from rural Arizona to midtown Phoenix.
Ms Harris and Mr Walz have hundreds of paid staffers in the two states contacting voters and encouraging them to get out the vote, a gap Mr Trump is hoping outside groups can fill.
If the election remains close, local action will determine victory or defeat in battleground states, but without a strong coordinated effort, the Republican Party may be headed for the same disaster that Donald Trump caused by abandoning the party’s local efforts.
