How A Handful Of Grassroots Groups Built The Ground Game Critical To Trump’s Victory
By: M.D. Kittle
November 22, 2024 American Majority Action turned out low-participation voters in battleground States to help Trump and fellow Republicans to victory.If you want to win the war, you’d better have a good ground game.
It’s taken Republicans a long time to learn that basic truth on the battleground of politics, often through painful losses. But some grassroots conservative groups got it in the latest election cycle, and the armies they deployed in ballot-chasing battles across the seven battleground states appear to have had a pronounced impact on the outcome of this month’s presidential election.
Taking a page from the successful ground game playbook in Florida’s successful 2022 elections, American Majority Action (AMA) developed and launched a blanketing ballot-chasing initiative in four swing states — Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The conservative grassroots nonprofit targeted low-to-moderate propensity voters, conservatives who rarely or never vote in elections, encouraging and cajoling them to not only to vote, but to vote early.
Put More Fish in the PondThrough millions of contacts and sustained relationship building, AMA helped cut the massive absentee ballot/early voting surpluses Democrats and leftist activists have built up in past elections cycles in Wisconsin, while giving Republicans a decided ballot advantage heading into Election Day in Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina.
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https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/22/how-a-handful-of-grassroots-groups-built-the-ground-game-critical-to-trumps-victory/
