Trump’s Effort To Get Out The Vote In Battleground States Is Failing Miserably

When the 2024 election is over and we look back at what led to the outcome, don’t be surprised if voter turnout in several key battleground states winds up being the determining factor. It certainly was in 2020, when President Joe Biden won a popular and electoral victory over disgraced former president Donald Trump.

While the Trump campaign has pledged to increase its efforts to get voters to the polls in November, their actions appear to be the ultimate case of too little too late, according to a revealing article from The Guardian.

Months before Biden dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the Republican National Committee (RNC) made a splashy pledge to open 90 offices around the country, but they are nowhere near that number and appear to have outsourced voter turnout efforts to other GOP-aligned organizations that don’t have access to the sort of money or volunteers being raised by the RNC.

“The Trump campaign has put fewer resources into its ground game in battleground states, according to people familiar with the matter — and Republican officials have derisively said the Trump operation is more comparable in size to a midterm cycle than a presidential.”

Just how badly outnumbered and outworked is the Trump campaign compared to the efforts underway by Democrats? Consider these numbers: The Trump 2024 campaign has 350 staffers in battleground campaign offices. In contrast, the Harris campaign has 375 staffers in Pennsylvania alone, which is considered a must-win battleground for any presidential candidate, especially since the current election may be as close or closer than 2020.

That’s not all the bad news for Trump and the GOP, as outside groups such as Turnout for America, Turning Point Action, America First Works, and Elon Musk’s America PAC are only now starting to hire staffers. Early voting starts in some states as soon as mid-September, which suggests any last-minute voter turnout efforts by Republicans and their surrogates are likely to be a waste of time.

As usual, it appears that Trump is a day late and a dollar short. That’s not surprising when you consider that he’s been a failure his entire life and only succeeds at grifting and lying.