Morning Jolt: Looming Questions about the Trump Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

October 23 2024

Looming Questions about the Trump Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

On the menu today: You've probably heard the reports doubting the Trump campaign's strategy of effectively outsourcing its get-out-the-vote operations to Charlie Kirk's Turning Point Action and Elon Musk's America PAC. Look hard, and you can find reports wondering if the groups' staffers are actually knocking on all the doors that they claim to be knocking on, or if they're inflating the numbers. Why is Trump, a man with arguably the most devoted and impassioned fanbase in American politics, relying on a bunch of mercenaries for this make-or-break aspect of his campaign? Meanwhile, the Democrats have a billion dollars to play with and are talking about distributing "street money" in Philadelphia. Read on.

Crunch Time for Canvassers

It's the make-or-break question of the presidential election: Is the Republican get-out-the-vote operation, largely outsourced to independent organizations like Turning Point Action and Elon Musk's America PAC, going to get the job done?

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