{"id":2325564,"date":"2024-08-16T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-chooses-untraditional-ground-strategy-in-swing-states-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T12:02:18","slug":"trump-chooses-untraditional-ground-strategy-in-swing-states-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-chooses-untraditional-ground-strategy-in-swing-states-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump chooses untraditional ground strategy in swing states &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-chooses-untraditional-ground-strategy-in-swing-states-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2325564&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Be surprised if these numbers are not all\u2062 too accurate, as the Trump campaign appears to be lagging significantly behind in terms\u200b of ground operations \u2063and voter outreach compared to \u200bthe\u2062 Harris campaign,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;It\u2019s crucial for the GOP to ramp up efforts in\u2063 these\u2062 key states if they hope to have any chance at securing a victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As both campaigns continue to unfold, the differences in strategy are becoming more pronounced. While\u2062 the Trump \u2063campaign is focusing on poll-watching and leveraging outside groups \u200dfor outreach, the Harris\u2062 campaign is investing heavily in grassroots efforts and volunteer mobilization.\u2062 This difference in approach may ultimately shape the dynamics of the upcoming election as key states prepare for what is expected to be a fiercely \u200bcontested \u200bbattle. <\/p>\n<p>The stakes have never been higher and as Election Day approaches, both candidates are making their final pushes to sway undecided voters and solidify \u2063their bases. Whether the strategies will pay off \u2063remains to be seen, but the focus on ground game effectiveness will\u200d likely play a critical role in \u2064determining the outcome.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump goes for unconventional ground game while Harris builds up swing state army<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1730913\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a>&rsquo;s campaign strategies in seven battleground states have vastly differed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democrats<\/a> have increased get-out-the-vote resources, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>GOP<\/a> outsources those initiatives and instead relies on poll-watching initiatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With just a little over 80 days left until Election Day, the Trump campaign is ceding door-knocking and canvassing opportunities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-voter-outreach-super-pacs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>outside groups<\/a> such as Turning Point Action, helmed by Charlie Kirk, and other super PACs they cannot direct.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such tactics to allow noncampaign staff to direct voter outreach come with risks that in the past have sometimes proven unsuccessful. And it allows the Harris campaign, already bolstered by President Joe Biden stepping aside, to widen the gap in voter outreach in the seven battlegrounds that will determine the next president of the United States &mdash; to the ire of conservatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Forget the money and ads, the Democrats&rsquo; ground game is far surpassing the GOP ground game,&rdquo; bemoaned conservative commentator Erick Erickson on X. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been registering new voters and farming for absentee ballots with paid operatives, some of whom are making up to $40 an hour. The GOP has nothing at that level.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Forget the money and ads, the Democrats&#8217; ground game is far surpassing the GOP ground game. They&#8217;ve been registering new voters and farming for absentee ballots with paid operatives, some of whom are making up to $40 an hour. The GOP has nothing at that level.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1821371248762343692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But these outside groups insist that the work they are doing is effective while allowing the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee to save millions in costly programs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Turning Point Action has hired hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-say-arizonas-2020-disaster-is-a-lesson-learned-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Republicans say Arizona&#039;s 2020 disaster is a lesson learned- Washington Examiner\">full-time ballot chasers<\/a> in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan which will be working alongside an army of thousands of volunteers who have joined our Gen Z, Hispanic, Women, Farmers, and Faith Coalitions,&rdquo; Kirk said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve also launched our Commit 100 program recruiting volunteers to move to Arizona and Wisconsin to chase 100 early ballots and 100 Election Day ballots,&rdquo; Kirk continued. &ldquo;If they come, we&rsquo;ll provide accommodations. We&rsquo;ll continue to examine territories in the key battleground states where it makes sense for us to staff up and expand. We are grateful to be able to harmonize with the campaign and the RNC on canvassing and GOTV efforts like Chase the Vote.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Past attempts to allow affiliated groups to take on these burdens have not always worked out. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), one of Trump&rsquo;s strongest primary rivals, allowed the super PAC supporting his campaign, Never Back Down, to take over voter operations in Iowa the first nominating GOP state. But the super PAC ultimately wasted tens of millions of dollars that saw DeSantis lose the Iowa caucuses by at least 30 percentage points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, claimed in July he would give $45 million a month to America PAC in support of Trump. But its ground game efforts to turn out voters are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/31\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-super-pac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reportedly in disarray<\/a> and election officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/08\/04\/elon-musk-pac-investigated-michigan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Michigan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/08\/05\/trump-elon-musk-pac-election-north-carolina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>North Carolina<\/a> are investigating the super PAC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden, and then Harris, benefited from the advantage of incumbency and virtually no primary season to<br \/>get a head start on ground operations. Trump didn&rsquo;t clear the GOP primary field until March and at the time shook up the RNC with new leadership where they immediately prioritized getting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/press-release\/trump-campaign-and-rnc-unveil-historic-100000-person-strong-election-integrity-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100,000 people<\/a>&nbsp;to help with poll watching to protect the votes after they are cast.<\/p>\n<p>While the Trump campaign claims they now have a similar number, if not more field offices, than Democrats, they appear to lag behind on the number of staffers based on numbers provided by the campaigns. A <em>Washington Examine<\/em>r survey of action in battleground states shows a mismatch, such as&nbsp;the Harris campaign having more than 1,400 staffers compared to the Trump campaign, which claims to have hundreds of staffers but has not yet released the total amount yet.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200,000 volunteers joined the Harris campaign since Biden suspended his campaign while the Trump campaign touts 14,500 volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP has largely turned to election integrity programs that aim to increase the number of poll watchers in November after Trump questioned the validity of the 2020 election. The Trump campaign&rsquo;s political director, James Blair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-am-4f043dd0-5a7b-11ef-ac20-9dfa6a124c0e.html?chunk=2&amp;utm_term=emshare#story2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-am-4f043dd0-5a7b-11ef-ac20-9dfa6a124c0e.html?chunk=2&amp;utm_term=emshare#story2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Axios<\/a> <\/em>they have a field of more than 150,000 poll watchers and on X he claimed they have 14,500 trained volunteers or &ldquo;Trump Force 47 Captains&rdquo; in battleground states. &ldquo;More than 2,500 trained in the last week + increase training capacity daily,&rdquo; Blair wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680; Quick Updates: <\/p>\n<p>&#9989; We&rsquo;ve cleared 14,500 Trump Force 47 Captains trained across the Battleground States. <\/p>\n<p>&#9989; More than 2,500 trained in the last week + increase training capacity daily. <\/p>\n<p>&#9989; Clark County, NV (Las Vegas) was finally forced to clean the voter rolls last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V1DyGSRukN\">https:\/\/t.co\/V1DyGSRukN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesBlairUSA\/status\/1824089611431248237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in August, Blair claimed the campaign had hundreds of paid staff and 300 offices across the battleground states, which the campaign&rsquo;s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt also echoed in a statement to the<em> Washington Examiner.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have hundreds of paid staffers across the battleground states, and actively hiring more, along with over 300 Trump\/GOP offices operating,&rdquo; said Leavitt. &ldquo;Our operation is focused on increasing capacity every day and turning out the voters President Trump needs to win, while the Harris campaign is busy fighting internally about which team is really in charge between the Biden people, the Harris people, and the Obama people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump and the RNC have largely trailed Biden, then Harris, and the Democratic National Committee in fundraising due to a wide primary roster of Republicans who failed to wrestle the nomination from the former president. In July, Harris&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-state-scorecard-walz-addition-shifts-rankings-of-harriss-hardest-battlegrounds-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Swing-state scorecard: Walz addition shifts rankings of Harris\u2019s hardest battlegrounds - Washington Examiner\">record-breaking 0 million<\/a> more than doubled the roughly $139 million raised by the GOP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those advantages have allowed Democrats to further increase resoursces in the battleground states. In less than two weeks since Biden dropped out on July 21, the Harris campaign had volunteers make 2.3 million phone calls, knock on 172,000 doors, and send nearly 2.9 million text messages to voters in battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We currently have more than 260 coordinated campaign offices and more than 1,400 coordinated staff across the battleground states that are making investments in training and reaching supporters across the country with new organizing tactics,&rdquo; bragged Dan Kanninen, battleground states director for Harris&rsquo;s campaign, in an early August memo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four days later Kanninen touted the deep investments being made in the blue wall battlegrounds, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, that Democrats must win to ensure victory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In Wisconsin, we have the most formidable door knocking operation the state has ever seen, with 48 coordinated offices across 43 counties, including 32 in counties that Trump won in 2020 &mdash; 13 of which he won by more than 20 points,&rdquo; he wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Michigan, Democrats&nbsp; &ldquo;have almost 200 coordinated staff on the ground and 50 field offices in every corner of the state, including three in Detroit, and many more in communities like Grand Rapids, Flint, Marquette, Lansing, Saginaw, and Traverse City,&rdquo; Kanninen continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign has almost 300 staffers across 36 offices in Pennsylvania, while the Trump campaign opened its first office in the state in Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/penncapital-star.com\/campaigns-elections\/trump-2024-campaign-opens-office-in-philly-its-first-in-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>two months ago<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are hoping to flip North Carolina blue for the first time in 16 years. Before Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee the campaign had opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/raleigh\/2024\/03\/28\/biden-campaign-opening-10-field-offices-in-north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>10 field offices<\/a> in the Tar Heel State in March. Kanninen said the Harris operation would double its staff in North Carolina, as well as in Arizona, and claimed that 40,000 people signed up to support the campaign in the days following Biden&rsquo;s decision to end his 2024 campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The party is learning from past Democratic mistakes, Douglas Wilson, a Democratic strategist, told the <em>Washington Examiner.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They are going to areas that Democrats don&rsquo;t go to a lot of times. They&rsquo;re going to the eastern part of the state, which is very rural and has a significant, large African American population,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;They are hitting the cities along the I-85 corridor, which is Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, and Durham. They are talking to different constituencies, holding meetings, knocking on doors, making phone calls. There&rsquo;s a lot of activity going on in the Harris campaign, which in my opinion gives her the advantage here.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Wilson also cautioned that there is much work to be done to match GOP turnout among white rural voters. &ldquo;And it will be close but the Vice President&rsquo;s infrastructure gives her a little bit of a leg up over the Trump campaign,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, another Sunbelt state, the Harris campaign saw more than 63,000 sign-ups and has 24 offices while the Trump campaign opened up offices in Savannah, the metro Atlanta area, and Athens.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Out west in Nevada, the Harris campaign has 13 offices while claiming Trump had one office in the state. But Steven Hilding, a Nevada Republican strategist, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the Trump campaign had a northern and a southern office in the state.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say that the Trump campaign is just kind of washing their hands of a field program by any means because I think you&rsquo;re seeing Trump Force 47 being a very successful field program, as it seems so far,&rdquo; Hilding added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican strategist suggested the Trump campaign was targeting the smaller groups of voters that can be persuaded to vote for Trump. &ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s what you&rsquo;re seeing a lot of the Trump campaign&rsquo;s efforts are going into, the paid media, things like that, targeting those kind of voters.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And then the field effort,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;You know, if you look right now at the Trump Force 47 website, there are 39 events in the state of Nevada between now and the end of the month.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have repeatedly stressed that the enthusiasm over the Harris campaign will recede the closer Election Day gets and as voters learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s policy issues. &ldquo;I think you&rsquo;re going to see Trump start to increase his rally schedule that&rsquo;s going to pick up some of some of that enthusiasm on the ground, which then correlates to enthusiasm among the volunteer base, and among the actual field. The knocking of doors and making phone calls,&rdquo; said Hilding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1730913\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1730913\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump adopts an unconventional ground strategy while Harris strengthens her presence in swing states. The campaign approaches of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in seven key battleground states are markedly different. Democrats have ramped up their get-out-the-vote efforts, whereas the GOP is outsourcing these initiatives and focusing on poll-watching activities. With just over 80 days remaining until Election Day, the Trump campaign is delegating door-to-door canvassing to external groups like Turning Point Action, led by Charlie Kirk, as well as other super PACs that they cannot directly control. This strategy of relying on non-campaign personnel for voter outreach carries risks that have previously resulted in failures. Meanwhile, the Harris campaign has gained momentum following President Joe Biden&#8217;s withdrawal from the race, allowing them to enhance their voter outreach efforts across the seven battleground states crucial for determining the next president\u2014much to conservatives&#8217; frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Erick Erickson expressed concern on X about how Democrats are outpacing Republicans in grassroots mobilization: \u201cForget money and ads; the Democrats\u2019 ground game far exceeds that of the GOP.\u201d He noted that Democrats have been actively registering new voters and securing absentee ballots through paid operatives earning up to $40 an hour\u2014a level of investment he claims Republicans lack.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this criticism, outside groups assert their effectiveness while helping save millions for Trump&#8217;s campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC). Kirk stated that Turning Point Action has employed hundreds of full-time ballot chasers in key states like Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan alongside thousands of volunteers from various demographic coalitions.<\/p>\n<p>However, past experiences with similar strategies haven&#8217;t always yielded positive results. For instance, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis allowed a super PAC supporting his candidacy to manage voter operations in Iowa but ended up wasting significant funds while losing by a large margin.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2023, Elon Musk announced plans to contribute $45 million monthly to America PAC supporting Trump; however, reports indicate disorganization within its ground game efforts leading election officials in Michigan and North Carolina to investigate it.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2014and subsequently Harris\u2014benefited from incumbency advantages without facing a primary challenge which allowed them early access to ground operations. In contrast, Trump&#8217;s path through a crowded primary field only cleared by March forced him into reshuffling RNC leadership focused primarily on poll watching after questioning 2020 election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>While both campaigns claim comparable numbers of field offices now exist between them according to Trump&#8217;s team\u2019s assertions about staffing levels based on provided data show discrepancies favoring Harris&#8217;s operation with over 1,400 staffers compared with hundreds claimed by Trump\u2019s team yet not fully disclosed publicly yet either way indicating potential gaps remain evident when comparing volunteer numbers too where more than 200k joined since Biden suspended his own run versus only around 14k touted by Trump\u2019s side thus far overall indicating challenges ahead still persistently loom large especially given fundraising disparities seen recently too where July figures showed record-breaking amounts raised significantly favoring Democratic candidates overall further compounding issues faced moving forward into upcoming elections ahead ultimately shaping outcomes likely impacting future political landscapes accordingly thereafter as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2325565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Donald_Trump_98_2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[38327,32115,3634,38328,32076],"class_list":["post-2325564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-ground-strategy","tag-swing-states","tag-trump","tag-untraditional","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Donald_Trump_98_2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}