THIS is How You Win Elections
If you have ever worked a campaign phone bank, you know what I'm talking about. Real people talking to real people. A group of a dozen or so phone bankers making contact with hundreds of voters in a few hours. Genuine conversations going on about why people should vote for Harris/Walz. Trained callers helping voters anchor their Harris/Walz choice, get their questions answered, and/or resolve their concerns. Callers checking to make sure the voter is registered and knows how and when to vote. Callers trained to recruit additional volunteers and solicit donations. Two full months of this. Two full months for the ground game to continue to expand and reinforce itself, and to drive early voter turnout, and drive Election Day turnout.
Play the video to get a sense of how this room sounds. While this scene is obviously staged to show Harris and Walz personally making calls, it is exactly how a good phone bank looks and feels even without them present.
This is a brilliant piece of video. It will be shown to thousands of local people working their phone banks. It will excite and motivate the Harris/Walz volunteers. This is part of the suburb Harris/Walz ground game.
This in addition to precinct canvassing. This in addition to their $340 MILLION social media ad buy in swing states. This in addition to two candidates who do not disparage women, utter racist slurs, can maintain a coherent thought for more than two minutes, do not consider military personnel suckers, do not oppose the abortion rights the clear majority of Americans want, do not play golf when they could be working hard on the campaign instead, do not want to be a dictator on day one, do not give massive tax breaks to billionaires, and are not convicted felons.