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Why the Trump Campaign Says It's Betting on Grassroots Organizing in 2020
Time ^ | September 20, 2019 | Tessa Berenson in Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, NM

Posted on 09/20/2019 6:45:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a warm September day at a quaint winery in New Mexico, but while photos of happy brides and grooms line the walls, the people gathered here today aren’t celebrating a marriage. They’re here to see Brad Parscale.

Parscale, President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, has a message for the 60 or so Trump supporters on hand at the Sept. 17 gathering. “Volunteering is how you win,” he says. “Don’t expect just money on TV and [a] digital program is going to win this again.”

Trump’s campaign is betting big on grassroots organizing in 2020, a significant change from his unorthodox and thinly staffed 2016 campaign. They’ve created the Trump Victory Leadership Initiative, a training program for volunteers and organizers modeled on the fellowship program Barack Obama’s campaign pioneered in 2008 and 2012. According to Parscale, the Trump campaign had 700,000 trained volunteers in 2016. This time, they’re aiming for 2 million. In 2016, Trump’s team had 5,000 trained fellows, a more experienced type of volunteer, Parscale says. They’re already at 30,000 for the 2020 election.

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1 posted on 09/20/2019 6:45:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump’s team had 5,000 trained fellows...sounds anti female :)

Also sounds like a good ground game.


2 posted on 09/20/2019 6:47:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Deporting millions of illegal voters would be a good idea too.


3 posted on 09/20/2019 6:47:43 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

We have to do what we CAN do.


4 posted on 09/20/2019 6:53:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

There’s no Can’t in AmeriCan.


5 posted on 09/20/2019 6:56:46 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

Well, there are times when you have to decide what’s wise, between ‘CAN and CAN’T do’, in the immediate circumstance; and take the long view.

(Someone suggested recently that I am ‘shy’. I told him that I am not shy - I’m ‘circumspect’.)


6 posted on 09/20/2019 7:06:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

I think in the case of deporting illegals that are probably registered to vote the word “won’t” is more apt.


7 posted on 09/20/2019 7:10:56 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

I think it’s more complicated than that.

(Run for office; get elected, and then try to get elected again. Report back to us what you experience, and your thoughts about it.)


8 posted on 09/20/2019 7:15:18 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By the size of the crowds he draws yeah grass roots (sarc)


9 posted on 09/21/2019 2:36:15 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: dp0622

In 2016, there was much buzz about how Cankles had so many more offices, trained staff, etc. Turned out they were overwhelmingly inefficient.

On the other hand, in 2012, all we heard about was Minion Romney’s “Orca” and how his computer program would save the day.

Parscale is very smart. I’m wondering if, in fact, this time around he hasn’t ditched much of his breathtaking social media campaign of 2016, where he used FB and Twitter like no one ever had, and is turning to the “run game.”


10 posted on 09/21/2019 5:22:41 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: dp0622

In 2016, there was much buzz about how Cankles had so many more offices, trained staff, etc. Turned out they were overwhelmingly inefficient.

On the other hand, in 2012, all we heard about was Minion Romney’s “Orca” and how his computer program would save the day.

Parscale is very smart. I’m wondering if, in fact, this time around he hasn’t ditched much of his breathtaking social media campaign of 2016, where he used FB and Twitter like no one ever had, and is turning to the “run game.”


11 posted on 09/21/2019 5:22:43 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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