With under two weeks to Election Day, and as millions of Americans have already voted, the Democratic National Committee is kicking its ground game operation into high gear for the final sprint.
If you got a knock on your front door last weekend, there’s a good chance it was from one of the canvassers the DNC says were using its proprietary canvassing software to seek out possible Democratic voters.
And those text messages you’re getting from Democratic campaigns aren’t just feeling like they’re getting more frequent; they actually are. The DNC says it has invested millions of dollars into improving its cellphone lists to reach out to more than 80% of voters — a 50% increase from 2016.
In a memo released today, the DNC is also touting its coordination with IWillVote.com, a DNC-funded venture that allows voters to find voting and drop-off locations near them, along with resources that alert users to their voter registration statuses. More than 72,000 people looked up their polling places yesterday, according to the DNC.
All of that takes significant financial resources — which the Harris campaign and DNC have no shortage of. New analysis from NBC News indicates outside groups have spent $464 million in support of the Democratic campaign — on top of the billion dollars the Harris campaign has raised during the third quarter.
To put that into perspective, that’s more than the gross domestic product of more than a dozen countries, NBC News’ Ben Kamisar writes.
On the GOP side, the Trump campaign touts its Trump Force 47 voter outreach program as key to its ground game success. Outside groups, including Elon Musk’s America PAC and Turning Point Action, are also contributing to the door-knocking and text-sending efforts.
