Exclusive: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake
Source: The Guardian
Sat 19 Oct 2024 11.30 EDT
Last modified on Sun 20 Oct 2024 02.15 EDT
Donald Trumps campaign may be failing to reach thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada, with roughly a quarter of door-knocks done by America Pac flagged by its canvassing app as potentially fraudulent, according to leaked data and people familiar with the matter.
The potentially fake door-knocks when canvassers falsely claim to have visited a home could present a serious setback for Trump as he and Kamala Harris remain even in the polls with fewer than 20 days until an election.
The Trump campaign earlier this year outsourced the bulk of its ground game to America Pac, the political action committee founded by Elon Musk, betting that spending millions to turn out Trump supporters, especially those who dont typically vote, would boost returns. But leaked America Pac data obtained by the Guardian shows that roughly 24% of the door-knocks in Arizona and 25% of the door-knocks in Nevada this week were flagged under unusual survey logs by the Campaign Sidekick canvassing app.
The Arizona data, for example, shows that out of 35,692 doors hit by 442 canvassers working for Blitz Canvassing in the America Pac operation on Wednesday, 8,511 doors were flagged under the unusual survey logs. The extent of the flagged doors in America Pacs operation underscores the risk of outsourcing a ground-game program, where paid canvassers are typically not as invested in their candidates victory compared with volunteers or campaign staff.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/19/trump-campaign-leaked-data-voters-elon-musk
Think. Again.
(17,955 posts)...of course they're going to lie about how many doors they knocked on. And anything else they happen to speaking about.
pecosbob
(7,904 posts)They couldn't track their door-knockers and the door-knockers knew it.
The offline walkbooks by individuals whom do not have 40/kbps or better signal to geo-locate their position have no way of certifying their completion; often leading paid volunteers to speed walk their routes and self-certifying their completion.
Even those who have legitimately completed their routes are having issues uploading to the app that their route was completed correctly.
Saved the campaign millions supposedly
hope the lack of voter engagement was worth it!
Bayard
(24,145 posts)Nobody can tell the truth in his camp.
CaptainTruth
(7,213 posts)mopinko
(71,802 posts)pecosbob
(7,904 posts)I've been contacted by phone three times this week by Dems.
PortTack
(34,644 posts)Martin68
(24,604 posts)Lying liars working for lying liars.
CaptainTruth
(7,213 posts)angrychair
(9,736 posts)Sorry, I'm tired of the "all the polls I don't like are fake" because if they are fake then we're winning right? We don't have to work as hard because we're really, secretly, winning.
It also causes us not to address hard truths and to make a plan for what to do if things don't turn out like we want.
I'd rather be seen as pessimistic than trying to tell people "everything is fake but the things that are in our favor" type of person
In this particular situation, its fact. And in many of the others, too, if you care to check the facts on Republican sponsored polls.
I have no trouble believing what has happened with the canvasers because I worked in market research for 7 years. It is similar to this because people are being paid to make an in-person contact. In market research it is important because of the random sample that is drawn. Deviating and substituting from it causes unreliable reports. Trustworthy firms like the one I worked for build in layers of checking. That was a big part of my jobsupervising the checking. If the canvasers or field researchers think they can get away with faking the contact, they will.
This can be quite lucrative if a canvaser fakes the contacts.
Without checkers and strict supervision, Musk and trump are just throwing money away.
SWBTATTReg
(24,085 posts)field and this advantage will help us in the long run, get voters favorable to Kamala to the polls.
With all of the 'money' that tRUMP has 'burned thru' (I personally think that he's pocketed a hell of a lot of it), he's already moaning that his 'donors' aren't giving enough, moan, moan, moan. His usual list of gripes.
He's going to get his ass kicked (pardon language). And I hope it gets kicked good and hard. He deserves a good plain ol' thrashing.