The mind of one of three liberal organizations leading the important swing state initiative tells The Federalist that an eight-figur campaign aimed at typically reluctant Republicans is beginning to carry “early fruits.”  ,
And the get-out-the-vote program is about to spread to two more says with crucial Senate races.
The Sentinel Action Fund, the Republican State Leadership Committee, and the Keystone Renewal PAC announced last month that they had made the “historic” funding to help Republicans win in November by using mail-based voting to garner support.  ,
” It’s going very well. We are starting to see the first fruits of our labor”, Jessica Anderson, chairman of the Sentinel Action Fund, told The Federalist in an exam.  ,
Sentinel describes itself as” the only conservative Super PAC with a year-round ground game committed to turning out absentee, early vote, and “day of” voters. And they are absolutely killing it. Anderson claimed that the GOTV campaign has received numerous sessions of mail and targeted Pennsylvania’s airwaves with digital ads in an effort to appeal to the state’s 1.2 million low-propensity voters, who are eligible voters who rarely vote in elections. Republicans who have only voted once or twice in the previous four election cycles are targeted by the battle, Anderson said.  ,
” Those citizens are essential for us]in the presidential election ] and for David McCormick winning Pennsylvania”, Anderson said.  ,
The Keystone Renewal PAC has spent more than$ 580, 000 thus far backing McCormick, former CEO of one of the world’s largest hedge funds. The commission has dropped another$ 300, 000- plus opposing former Democrat Sen. Bob Casey, according to political income monitor Open Secrets. In a culture that was eventually won by competency challenged Democrat John Fetterman, McCormick lost Pennsylvania’s 2022 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate to doctor and television character Mehmet Oz.  ,
In a “high bets” race that McCormick and Casey could decide who Pennsylvania sends to the Senate and which party controls the lower house, McCormick and Casey both won their particular party primaries next month.  ,
The Republican State Leadership Committee’s representatives did not respond to The Federalist’s requests for comment.  ,
Every device we have,” Every resource we have.”
According to their inner designs and amazing elections data, Anderson claimed that the GOTV strategy has recruited 40, 000 low-propensity Republican voters who have signed up for the absentee voting record. She also asserted that a total of 236, 000 Republican voters had requested absentee ballots for the April 23 primary, an increase of more than 36, 000 requests from the 2022 state primary.
” We’re pleased with the numbers from Tuesday. It shows really good momentum”, the super PAC president said.  ,
But she acknowledges that there is still a lot to accomplish in the coming months. A significant portion of that work involves informing Pennsylvanians who do n’t frequently vote about how convenient it is to vote absentee and vote by mail and why their ballots are so important. Over the weekend, according to Anderson, an army of door knockers was expected to begin knocking on doors.
It’s no easy feat. Pennsylvania State Representative Dawn Keefer says many of her constituents, like many conservatives across the country, have a deep distrust for mail- in voting — trust issues exacerbated by left- wing election shenanigans in the 2020 election. She said low- propensity voters “live in different bubbles” . ,
According to Keefer, who is leading Pennsylvania state lawmakers in a federal lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14019,” they can tell you which lipstick Kim Kardashian wears but they do n’t know who their state representative is.” The fiat mandates that the federal government collaborate with left-wing third-party organizations and state agencies on voter registration and GOTV campaigns that are targeted in a way that is likely to benefit Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.
The lawmaker said the low turnout in the election last week gives her pause, underscoring the importance of all legal conservative get-out-the-vote initiatives leading up to November’s general election.  ,
” We have to use every single thing we have, every tool we have”, Keefer said. ” We’re not trying to cannibalize in- person voting, we’re trying to make sure we’re engaging low- propensity voters” . ,
‘ Too Big to Rig ‘
According to FiveThirtyEight, Donald Trump “highly unorthodox strategy of courting unlikely voters during the]2016 Republican primaries, focusing on people who rarely participate in GOP primary elections.” It worked. Trump won — in the primary and general election.  ,
In a repeat of the 2020 election, the former president and candidate for president appear to be working with a similar strategy.  ,
At a campaign rally last month, Trump said,” We want a landslide that is too big to rig.” With the intention to use paper ballots and voter identification in one day, he promised to secure U.S. elections. However, he and other Republicans must win before they can hope to do anything about it, and winning requires defeating Democrats at their own GOTV contests.  ,
Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Trump and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, has said similar things, but the RNC’s leadership seems to be muddled in the process. As my colleague Brianna Lyman recently reported, the committee plans to overhaul the early voting” Bank Your Vote” initiative, the brainchild of former Chair Ronna McDaniel. According to RNC officials, the upgrade” will include a campaign to bank Republican votes.”
Lyman wrote:
The RNC announced to The Federalist that its new strategy would add a” Grow The Vote” initiative and a vote-banking program to its overall strategy to appeal to unbounded Republican voters. The RNC has” staffers and volunteer-powered field programs in every battleground state and they are expanding daily,” according to committee spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez, who spoke to The Federalist when they inquired about how the new program would conduct vote banking and what metrics it would use to target voters.  ,
Anderson called the RNC’s apparent changes “weird moments” but believes that with Trump as the party’s leadership, the priority will be to appeal to as many voters as possible.  ,
” I really think we need to stay consistent. We want to see more of this as a result of the party’s unity, according to Anderson, who added that after President Trump spoke out more forcefully last week.  ,
She said the mission must concentrate on promoting the use of “rules that exist” to win elections.  ,
Better Ballot Chasing
Republicans have n’t done a lot of their best to convey that message in recent years. In a memo released last month, the Sentinel Action Fund notes that: ,
In the 2022 Election Cycle, over$ 8.9 billion was spent on federal elections, and on the Republican side, no major independent expenditure organization was focused on GOTV efforts or ballot chasing.
Couple this with the reality that the Left has created a sophisticated election turnout scheme using 501c3 non-profits, for-profits, a weaponized Biden Administration, and private cash donations from billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
Considering this landscape, the memo urged:
Republicans must win by a margin large enough to overthrow any fraud in order to prevail in 2024. This entails going to the polls early and taking family and friends along with you.
In a country that is incredibly divided, we are talking about extremely thin margins. In 2020, Biden claimed victory in Pennsylvania by a scant 1.2 percent. Just 44, 000 votes in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin, according to Domenico Montanaro of disgraced National Public Radio, kept Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.
” Republicans lost the U. S. Senate by 233, 036 votes ( NV/GA/AZ ) out of the 81, 276, 287 votes cast in those races across the country”, the Sentinel Action Fund memo notes. ” If we increased GOP turnout by .003 % in these states, the GOP would control the Senate. In Nevada alone, the race came down to just 7, 928 ballots. In razor-thin elections, a little encouragement can be very helpful.
The super PAC is targeting voters in Ohio and Montana, two states with close-fought Senate races that could give Republicans a 51-49 majority, according to Anderson. She said the partnership will launch an “eight- to nine- figure” GOTV campaign in Ohio by Memorial Day, and a” six- to seven- figure” effort in Montana after that.  ,
We are reviving the message that the conservative movement in America is at this crucial turning point, Anderson said.  ,
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award- winning investigative reporter and 30- year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
