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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have a lot in common. For one thing, everything they touch turns into crap. Musk is tanking Tesla and Twitter/X, and his latest flop is politics. Reuters is reporting that Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC, which Musk has funded with more than $75 million, is struggling in every corner of its operations and is “plagued by disarray.”
America PAC’s swing-state strategy is to reach out to non-voters and low-propensity voters (mostly men) who would be likely to vote for Trump if they could bother to get off the couch to vote. Many political campaign experts have called this a much riskier strategy than the traditional effort of doing GOTV to reach out to people who you already know support your party and your candidate and have voted for you in the past — a much lighter lift.
Aside from the inherent risk of this strategy, it turns out that America PAC is struggling to meet its outreach targets. Four people involved in the group's outreach told Reuters that managers warned canvassers they are missing targets and needed to raise the number of would-be voters they contact.
>Alysia McMillan, who canvassed for the PAC in Wisconsin, said field organizers recently told campaigners there they weren't reaching daily objectives and were on track to miss an ultimate goal of contacting 450,000 voters by Election Day. In one meeting with canvassers, recorded by McMillan and reviewed by Reuters, a manager warned of the shortfall.
>"We're not going to hit 450,000, not with what we've got now," the manager said in the Oct. 8 meeting. It isn't clear how many knocks the Wisconsin teams have reached so far.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump have a lot in common. For one thing, everything they touch turns into crap. Musk is tanking Tesla and Twitter/X, and his latest flop is politics. Reuters is reporting that Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC, which Musk has funded with more than $75 million, is struggling in every corner of its operations and is “plagued by disarray.”
America PAC’s swing-state strategy is to reach out to non-voters and low-propensity voters (mostly men) who would be likely to vote for Trump if they could bother to get off the couch to vote. Many political campaign experts have called this a much riskier strategy than the traditional effort of doing GOTV to reach out to people who you already know support your party and your candidate and have voted for you in the past — a much lighter lift.
Aside from the inherent risk of this strategy, it turns out that America PAC is struggling to meet its outreach targets. Four people involved in the group's outreach told Reuters that managers warned canvassers they are missing targets and needed to raise the number of would-be voters they contact.
>Alysia McMillan, who canvassed for the PAC in Wisconsin, said field organizers recently told campaigners there they weren't reaching daily objectives and were on track to miss an ultimate goal of contacting 450,000 voters by Election Day. In one meeting with canvassers, recorded by McMillan and reviewed by Reuters, a manager warned of the shortfall.
>"We're not going to hit 450,000, not with what we've got now," the manager said in the Oct. 8 meeting. It isn't clear how many knocks the Wisconsin teams have reached so far.
