{"id":95239,"date":"2025-02-18T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/trouble-for-harris-and-walz-in-pennsylvania\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:50:52","slug":"trouble-for-harris-and-walz-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=95239","title":{"rendered":"Trouble for Harris and Walz in Pennsylvania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_f19b9bfec33e709557ceb5e864832635\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"article-title__eyebrow\">\n                            <span class=\"article-title__labels\"><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/subject\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span class=\"article-title__date\">October 24, 2024<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>At this point, both campaigns know it\u2019s all about the ground game. Trump\u2019s outsourced operation is a mess. But is Harris\u2019s \u201cBiden infrastructure with Obama vibes\u201d up to the task?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dougemhoff-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti visited with Nancy and Rachel Gibbons in Scranton before the Country Over Party rally in Wilkes-Barre earlier this month.<span class=\"credits\">(Aimee Dilger \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">With less than two weeks until November 5, voters are already casting ballots in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. Almost a million had voted as of Monday, October 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/election.lab.ufl.edu\/early-vote\/2024-early-voting\/2024-general-election-early-vote-pennsylvania\/\">according to the University of Florida\u2019s Election Lab<\/a>. Last weekend, thousands of volunteers from across the Northeast streamed into the state to knock on doors. But will this gigantic last-minute effort be enough to lift the Harris-Walz ticket to victory?<\/p>\n<p>If you ask the professionals at the top of the pyramidic structure that makes up the official Democratic push in PA\u2014or poll the equally important coalition of outside groups focused on getting out the vote\u2014you will get nothing but sunshine. \u201cOur campaign is running the largest and most sophisticated operation in Pennsylvania history,\u201d Harris national campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/kamala-harris-pennsylvania-campaign-drama-00183844\">told <em>Politico<\/em><\/a> last week. She noted that they have 50 coordinated offices and nearly 400 staff on the ground and had been buying advertising aimed at Black and Latino voters for over a year already. \u201cWe have now spent more than any previous presidential campaign on outreach to these communities,\u201d she claimed, adding, \u201cWe are leaving no stone unturned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur coalition is running a powerhouse field operation,\u201d Ravi Mangla, the national press secretary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/workingfamilies.org\/\">Working Families Party<\/a>, said to me Friday. Data he shared showed that between the WFP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onepa.org\/\">One PA<\/a>, SEIU, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maketheroadaction.org\/\">Make the Road Action<\/a>, Unite Here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apipennsylvania.org\/\">Asian Pacific Islanders of Pennsylvania<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freetheballot.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/freetheballot.org\/\">Free the Ballot<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/straight-ahead.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/straight-ahead.org\">Straight Ahead<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/paunited.org\/\">PA United<\/a>, paid and volunteer canvassers had already knocked on 3,173,000 doors. Their goal is to reach another million by election day with a focus on so-called low-propensity voters\u2014the people who don\u2019t reliably vote in every election, but who are critical this year. Other groups, like <a href=\"https:\/\/pastandsup.org\/\">Pennsylvania Stands Up<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sisterdistrict.com\/\">Sister District<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldteam6.org\/\">Field Team 6<\/a> were doing similar work in the purple suburbs north and west of Philadelphia and around Pittsburgh. Rest assured, the right voters were being reached with the right messages, I was told.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe. It\u2019s impossible to fact-check global statements about either the quantity or quality of political organizing being done in a state as big as Pennsylvania in just a few days. So what follows are some cautionary notes based on my years of close observation of (and occasional participation in) Democratic and progressive campaigning. And I see three clouds hanging over Harris\u2019s Pennsylvania prospects\u2014plus one silver lining.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Harris campaign is actually just the Biden campaign infrastructure with a different (and better) candidate. But that infrastructure was not built to scale a mass mobilization campaign. Prior to Biden\u2019s dropping out, his field operation was handling a trickle of volunteers. Now it has struggled to manage the flood unleashed by Harris. Many pop-up entities flowered after Biden bowed out, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winwithblackwomen.org\/\">Win With Black Women<\/a> and spreading to dozens of similar \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/forharris.org\">Xers for Harris<\/a>\u201d groups who attracted hundreds of thousands of participants to mass Zoom meetings in early August. But leaders of those groups tell me they have had little success figuring out how to best funnel the people they\u2019ve attracted into the Harris campaign machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no one has ever built a full-blown presidential campaign in such a short time. By necessity, the Harris campaign is partially relying on the Democratic National Committee\u2019s organizing infrastructure. But that means it has also inherited the DNC approach, which is very top-down and media-centric. Sri Kulkarni is a former Texas congressional candidate who was an early developer of the concept of relational organizing, where voters are encouraged to match their contact lists against the Democratic voter file and then try to personally engage with voters they actually know. This is called \u201cfriendbanking.\u201d He is now working triple time to help scale up the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s relational effort to help candidates across the country, including in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_c2831922a14de9a14d437762ec613269\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/march-2025-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cover0325.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of March 2025 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kulkarni tells me that more than 50,000 people have signed up for the DNC\u2019s relational campaign, which, like the DCCC, uses the Reach app to help people activate their personal networks. Among those are at least 7,000 in Pennsylvania, he says. But so far the Harris campaign is primarily using the DNC\u2019s Reach tool to prompt its users to share social media content, rather than to actually friendbank. This seems unwise. In theory, when Democrats hit the final weekend before Election Day and everyone is scrambling to move voters who still haven\u2019t cast their ballots, a robust friendbanking operation could give campaigners access to a list of activists who actually know these missing potential voters. Each of those 7,000 Pennsylvanians on Reach could also potentially activate another voter or two on their own. Such a strategy worked for Jon Ossoff in the special runoff election in Georgia in 2020\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@davisleonard\/how-we-built-a-relational-network-of-160k-voters-in-less-than-a-month-92262926fdb0\">helping his Senate campaign<\/a> identify 40,000 people who had actually skipped the general election. While many independent groups are trying relational organizing this year, including the WFP in Pennsylvania, where it has roughly 20,000 supporters on Reach, it appears it has yet to be adopted by the top of the Democratic hierarchy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_ef2be772bf63d3e6c5493dd6319ae74f\" class=\"cta float-l-w-2\">\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">A second problem is more political. If the Pennsylvania Harris campaign has indeed turned over every stone in its pursuit of victory, that is news to state Representative Chris Rabb, who has represented North Philly\u2019s vote-rich, 75 percent Black, 200th legislative district in the state House of Representatives for the last eight years. Every cycle, his district has had the highest turnout of any in the state, but so far, he tells me, the Harris campaign has made no asks of him. None. For the spring primary, he had built a squad of youth organizers, all paid $21 an hour, to talk and listen to voters in his district. But a proposal that he sent the Harris campaign over the summer to build a similar team went nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Nomiki Konst of <em>The Hill<\/em>\u2019s Youtube show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9x9EVoBV1Ss\">over the weekend<\/a>, Rabb said he remained optimistic that Harris would win the state. But he was also frustrated. \u201cHarris is using a Biden infrastructure with Obama vibes,\u201d Rabb observes. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a little nerve-wracking, because the Biden infrastructure\u2026does not involve the hard-core grassroots organizing that was emblematic of the Obama ascendancy.\u201d Rabb is also critical of how much the Harris team is relying on outsiders and celebrity surrogates rather than locals to reach voters like his constituents. \u201cThat\u2019s the challenge that I have with the infrastructure that Kamala Harris inherited from the Biden team. When you are sitting on half a billion dollars of campaign funds, I gotta ask, why aren\u2019t you making investments [in local organizers]?\u2026 The most meaningful thing you can do is invest in those communities.\u201d I\u2019ve heard similar stories from organizers in purple Bucks County, who say that the Harris campaign, which is staffed by outsiders, isn\u2019t interested in collaborating with local or state races, preferring instead to organize the many out-of-state volunteers flocking in by bus each weekend to canvass.<\/p>\n<p>Rabb\u2019s reference to Obama\u2019s ascendancy in 2008 illustrates my third concern. In 2008, the Obama campaign built a massive, distributed army of grassroots volunteers who were empowered to take responsibility for precinct-level organizing and who were taught to organize local volunteers to talk to their own neighbors. Unfortunately, since the rise of \u201cbig data,\u201d a much more technocratic style of campaigning has taken hold across much of the Democratic ecosystem. Field operations are tracked based on how many doors are knocked and how many voters are marked as \u201c5s\u201d or strong supporters, with quantity and speed valued much more than quality. Far more emphasis is put on targeted advertising than people-to-people outreach.<\/p>\n<section aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad fullwidth-ad contained row position-relative ad-block alignfull \">\n            <!--Ad policy starts here--><br \/>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"mid-ad-policy\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                <!--Ad policy ends here--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">Kipchoge Spencer is a veteran organizer who has spent the past week on the ground in Philadelphia and its suburbs, doing a mix of traditional and deep canvassing, which emphasizes taking the time to build empathetic connections with voters at the doors by sharing personal stories. \u201cAlmost everyone I speak to in Philly, whether on the street or at the door on a walk list, immediately says that they\u2019re registered and voting,\u201d he told me on Monday. \u201cIn conventional canvassing, at this point you basically do some variation on making sure they have a way to the polls and thanking them. In deep canvassing, you engage them in storytelling anyway and very often find out that they hadn\u2019t been as committed to actually voting as originally expressed but have become substantially more so over the course of the connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why aren\u2019t all the door-knockers in Pennsylvania using the deep canvassing technique? Because it takes time to train volunteers and let them gain enough experience to do it well, and big Democratic donors believe it costs too much. (The WFP does have a small \u201celection captain\u201d program that it is trying out in Philadelphia in the hopes of building a stronger case for the method, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ctc4progress.org\/\">Changing the Conversation for Progress<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canvassingconnectors.com\/\">Canvassing Connectors<\/a> are two independent groups with excellent deep canvassing programs in Philly and Easton.) So those millions of voters being door-knocked, phoned, and texted right now? They\u2019re nowhere near as locked down as the numbers might suggest.<\/p>\n<section id=\"popular-block_75b14db76e24c94302f677d7120fa814\" class=\"popular-articles\">\n<div class=\"swiper\">\n<p><h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p>            <span class=\"swipe-msg\"><span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cswipe left below to view more authors\u201d<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<ol class=\"popular-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>But there is a silver lining. By all accounts, the Trump-Vance get-out-the-vote operation, which has been largely outsourced to independent groups, is a complete mess. Paid canvassers in other swing states hired by Trump allies have been caught spoofing their canvassing software; one was caught sitting in a diner tapping \u201cnot home\u201d on all his assigned contacts. The fake door-knock rate has been as high as 30 percent, <em>The Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/19\/trump-campaign-leaked-data-voters-elon-musk\">reported<\/a>. In Pennsylvania, tech oligarch Elon Musk is getting attention for offering million-dollar prizes to registered voters who sign his petition in support of the First and Second Amendments, but the move reeks of desperation.<\/p>\n<p>The worst clich\u00e9 about election reporting is that it all comes down to turnout. In Pennsylvania, like the other swing states, this is where field organizing pays off. So, if you can, go knock on some doors before November 5\u2014or friendbank if you can\u2019t. Even one vote can make a difference.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/micah-l-sifry\/\">Micah L. Sifry<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Micah L. Sifry, a former <em>Nation<\/em> associate editor, writes a weekly newsletter called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconnector.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Connector<\/a><\/em>, focusing on the intersection of politics, organizing, technology, and democracy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"collections__title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore from<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMicah L. 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Trump\u2019s outsourced operation is a mess. But is Harris\u2019s \u201cBiden infrastructure with Obama vibes\u201d up to the task? 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