{"id":2365921,"date":"2024-11-08T05:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-ground-game-gamble-pays-off-but-comes-with-warning-sign-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:15:08","slug":"trumps-ground-game-gamble-pays-off-but-comes-with-warning-sign-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-ground-game-gamble-pays-off-but-comes-with-warning-sign-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s ground game gamble pays off but comes with warning sign &#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\">28<\/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%2Ftrumps-ground-game-gamble-pays-off-but-comes-with-warning-sign-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=2365921&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>The article discusses the reliance of Donald\u200b Trump&#8217;s campaign on third-party groups for voter\u200d outreach efforts during the recent election cycle. While this strategy proved largely successful, operatives have \u200ccautioned \u2063that such methods may not translate well in future elections, particularly for other Republican candidates. Key to\u200b this approach was\u2064 a Federal Election Commission decision that allowed campaigns to coordinate with outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-threats-of-corporate-donation-withdrawals-gop-senate-fund-hauls-in-8-3-million\/\" title=\"Amid Threats Of Corporate Donation Withdrawals, GOP Senate Fund Hauls In .3 Million\">political action committees<\/a> (PACs) for paid canvassing, diverging from traditional methods used by the \u200bRepublican National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c article highlights the effectiveness\u200b of organizations like Turning Point Action, which successfully mobilized \u2063low-propensity\u2064 Republican voters.\u2062 For \u2064instance, Trump\u2019s lead\u200b in Arizona was attributed to the group&#8217;s\u200b outreach efforts, which turned \u200dout approximately 200,000 previously inactive \u200dvoters. However, concerns arose among GOP strategists regarding the outsourcing of critical ground operations to groups with less experience, potentially harming \u2062down-ballot candidates.<\/p>\n<p>While some celebrated the successes of the outsourced strategies, others argued for\u200c a return to more conventional ground operations in future elections to maintain control \u2063and effectiveness. The article concludes with the importance of adapting strategies depending on\u200b the candidate \u200cat the top \u200bof the \u200bticket, recognizing that the \u200dcurrent cycle&#8217;s methods \u2064may not be sustainable in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-this-legal-group-plans-to-halt-democrats-jihad-against-election-integrity-laws-ahead-of-2024\/\" title=\"Legal group aims to stop Democrats&#039; attack on election integrity laws before 2024.\">future electoral contests<\/a>.  <\/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&rsquo;s ground game gamble pays off but comes with warning sign<\/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_1876304\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump\">Trump<\/a> campaign heavily relied on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3190822\/trump-big-ground-game-gamble-arizona-turning-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"door-to-door efforts\">door-to-door efforts<\/a> from third-party groups this cycle, which ultimately was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"largely successful\">largely successful<\/a>, but operatives warn the methods used this cycle may not be as effective for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Republicans\">Republicans<\/a> in a future presidential cycle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Republicans took advantage of a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicallawbriefing.com\/2024\/03\/fec-allows-nonfederal-committee-to-coordinate-paid-canvassing-efforts-with-federal-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Federal Election Commission decision <\/a>earlier this year that grants campaigns the ability to coordinate with outside political action committees on paid canvassing, a strategy that was largely disjoined from more traditional methods run by the Republican National Committee and state parties.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s campaign left many of the turn-out-the-vote operations to outside groups like Elon Musk&rsquo;s America PAC, Turning Point Action, America First Works, and others. However, since the groups often were operating in different regions with separate goals, it led some Republicans to believe down-ballot GOP candidates ended up being collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3154530\/biden-trying-shape-legacy-with-months-left-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW BIDEN IS TRYING TO SHAPE HIS LEGACY WITH JUST MONTHS LEFT IN OFFICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look at Michigan, Wisconsin, and, as the count stands now, Nevada. The commonality in those states: Trump won them but the Senate nominee in all those states lost,&rdquo; said Dennis Lennox, a Republican strategist based in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A tremendous number of so<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">-called low propensity voters &#038;mdash<\/a>; the major target this cycle &mdash; showed up to vote for Donald J. Trump and then dropped off, not completing their ballot,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;In Michigan, over 100,000 Trump voters didn&rsquo;t vote for the Republican Senate nominee. On the other side, just 16,000 Harris voters dropped off. Looking back to 2020, only 7,619 Trump voters didn&rsquo;t vote for the Senate nominee that year. The big differences? The ground staff and get-out-the-vote was outsourced.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpaction.com\/\">Turning Point Action<\/a>, headquartered in Phoenix, is taking a victory lap after seeing the large margins Trump is leading by in Arizona after the state in 2020 went for Biden by less than 11,000 votes. They also operated state-wide in Wisconsin, where Trump secured 49.8% of the vote compared to 48.8% for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the <em>Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the Grand Canyon State continues to count the votes, TPA Founder, Charlie Kirk said the results are already proving their methods were effective, turning out an estimated 200,000 low-propensity voters so far.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We still have one-third of ballots to count [in Arizona], without our efforts in Wisconsin, Trump would not have won Wisconsin without our low propensity efforts,&rdquo; Kirk said in an interview with the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3190822\/trump-big-ground-game-gamble-arizona-turning-point\/\">spent a day door-knocking<\/a> with the organization&rsquo;s paid chase-the-vote operation in the Grand Canyon State, where they targeted these low-propensity Republican voters who have not participated in recent elections. The group developed a canvassing app that ballot-chasers use to identify their target voters who still had outstanding early ballots in their possession.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ken Taylor, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/behind-the-scenes-of-trumps-big-ground-game-gamble-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Behind the scenes of Trump&#039;s big ground game gamble - Washington Examiner\">full-time canvasser<\/a> for Turning Point Action, knocks on doors in his neighborhood in October 2024. (Samantha-Jo Roth \/ Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220465\/what-trump-promised-day-one-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHAT TRUMP HAS PROMISED TO DO ON DAY 1 IN THE OVAL OFFICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the weeks ahead of the election, Republican operatives in a number of swing states had concerns that they weren&rsquo;t seeing the same kind of ground operation from the Trump campaign or outside groups that they did in 2016 and 2020. Some were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3190822\/trump-big-ground-game-gamble-arizona-turning-point\/\">sounding the alarm<\/a> over outsourcing critical get-out-the-vote efforts to groups that had little experience running successful field programs.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk described feeling vindicated as the results of the November election continue to stream in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When other people were too busy trying to plant stories against us, we were putting ballots in boxes,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Relying on groups like TPA and others also allowed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/30\/republicans-alarm-trump-ground-game-00181577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump campaign to focus on\">Trump campaign to focus on<\/a> candidate travel and ads. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Lennox believes the GOP should return to a more traditional top-down approach when it comes to ground game in future elections, emphasizing that this cycle&rsquo;s results, relying on outside groups, may not be effective with a different candidate at the top of the ticket.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Anyone who thinks that outsourcing the ground game and only doing rallies is the recipe for a national governing majority is forgetting the fundamentals. President-elect Trump deserves all the credit, but he did something that no other Republican could have done,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Outsourcing the ground game not only strips a party or candidate of control, but it allows consultants and vendors to make more money,&rdquo; said Lennox.<\/p>\n<p>TPA is pushing back on the notion that Republicans should return to the get-out-the-vote operations of the past. Through the 501(c)(3) and 501 (c)(4), the organization targeted young voters on college campuses, registered them, and then chased their ballots as first-time voters through their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-pta-sold-out-parents-for-politics-during-schools-biggest-crisis\/\" title=\"How The PTA Sold Out Parents For Politics During Schools\u2019 Biggest Crisis\">full-time staff<\/a> of ballot chasers, using their mobile application, in addition to their ground operations in Arizona and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The incumbent players in this space &mdash; if we would have just done everything the way they wanted us to do, I&rsquo;m convinced, you know, we might not win Pennsylvania, we might not win Ohio or Wisconsin,&rdquo; said Andrew Kolvert, a spokesman for TPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3220320\/greatest-comeback-trump-white-house-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>GREATEST COMEBACK? HERE&rsquo;S HOW TRUMP STACKS UP IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kolvert said they are looking to implement their ground game strategy in Arizona across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are getting incoming from across the country, of people that want our help to implement what we did in Arizona across the country,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We made this movement &mdash; Turning Point and Charlie Kirk &mdash; in large part turned being conservative into something cool again,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><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_1876304\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1876304\"}});<\/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&#8217;s ground game strategy succeeded but raises concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2365922,"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\/11\/TPA-ground-game-2-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[26491,32114,3634,44601],"class_list":["post-2365921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gamble","tag-ground-game","tag-trump","tag-warning-sign"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TPA-ground-game-2-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365921","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\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365925,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365921\/revisions\/2365925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}