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🚀 Exciting News from Vottiv - The GET THE VOTE OUT Platform 🚀 In a recent meeting, our executive team was reflecting on Vottiv’s massive successes from the early 2024 primaries. One standout achievement truly set the tone for our discussion. A recent case study showcased Vottiv’s unparalleled capability to double voter turnout rates in strategically targeted areas. This wasn’t just a win for Vottiv and our client; it was a demonstration of our commitment to innovating and winning back the GOTV fight for Republicans. Vottiv is not just software; it’s an all-encompassing platform designed to revolutionize how campaigns connect with voters. Our platform features a proprietary voter targeting system, and built-in voter contact tools including a canvassing app, SMS/MMS, Phone Banking, and Direct-Mail Postcards, among others. These tools come together to create an unmatched get out the vote solution for political campaigns. As we move forward, we are excited to introduce our new tagline: “The GET THE VOTE OUT Platform.” This is not just a slogan; it’s a declaration of our mission to empower Republicans and right-of-center candidates with the tools they need to mobilize their voter base effectively, and to dominate the GOTV game. The results speak for themselves. Our case studies show that when campaigns harness the power of Vottiv, they’re not just reaching out to voters; they’re significantly boosting turnout rates and securing victories. 🌟 Are you a Republican candidate, consultant, or campaign firm ready to turn the GOTV tide in your favor? 🌟 Now is the time to leverage the power of Vottiv and make every vote count. We invite you to reach out to our team and explore how we can help you maximize voter engagement, turnout, and, ultimately, win your elections. Join us in transforming the political landscape. Vottiv is more than a platform; it’s your gateway to turn out the vote in your elections and win.

Dear MoveOn member, 2024 will go down in history as the year that America chose democracy or fascism. But that history has yet to be written. What happens in 2024 is up to us. Truly. What will you tell your grandchildren or friends years from now about what you did when our country was teetering on the edge of fascism? I know my answer: I fought like hell to save our democracy. But I need you right by my side, because it's going to take all of us coming together to stop Donald Trump and his MAGA movement from taking over the White House—and never leaving. That's right, never leaving. The writing is on the wall. Even Republicans know it's true.1 That's the reality of the situation we face. I hate to have to write this, but remember, Hitler was initially elected. Please don't doubt the gravity of the situation our country is in. So today, I want to ask you to start a monthly donation to MoveOn, because MoveOn is exceptional at engaging millions of people across the country and turning them out to vote. But that kind of grassroots organizing must start now, because talking with voter after voter is expensive, and they can do it only with our support. Will you start a $5 monthly gift to MoveOn today? Your ongoing support will ensure that they have the resources to engage millions of people to fight Trump's march to fascism and save our democracy in 2024. Yes, I'll chip in monthly. No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation. MoveOn showed me a preview of their election plan, and I'm impressed. MoveOn has spent 25 years honing their work engaging and turning out voters, and it shows. Back in 2020, MoveOn piloted a program called "vote tripling," an innovative voter outreach tactic that engaged individuals to reach out to three friends or family members to help them make a plan to vote and hold them accountable for getting to the polls. Data showed that a program like this was five times more effective than traditional outreach like phone-banking. They refined the program in 2022 and focused on what they call "surge voters," those people who voted for the first time in 2018 or 2020 and who are likely to make the difference between winning and losing in most battleground states. In the end, their data showed that more than 50,000 voters cast votes who otherwise would not have turned out. That's HUGE. And now they are taking that program to the next level, combining their vote-tripling program with a massive, multitiered voter outreach plan to get to voters early and keep them engaged all the way through Election Day. It's a smart, strategic, data-driven campaign—exactly what I would expect from MoveOn. But 2023 was a rough year for fundraising at progressive organizations, which means that they are starting the year with less funds than they anticipated and need to quickly catch up to ensure that the MAGA movement can't steamroll its way back to power.

Please look at this graph. This represents new voter registrations in Florida over the past few years. The blue line is Democratic voters and the red line is Republican voters. The graphs look similar in other battleground states. Here are the things we know: -Republicans are investing HEAVILY in new voter registration - and it shows. -Democrats are for the most part not registering new voters, or registering them in untargeted ways (tabling, door knocking, canvassing), which result in a higher number of Republicans being registered. -We've identified 10 million unregistered likely Dems across the country. -We cannot convince people to vote with us if they are not registered to vote. Bottom line: -If numbers look anything like they did in 2020 or 2022, we cannot win without registering new voters. What you can do: -If you work with a campaign or organization that has the capacity to invest in this work, please contact me: [email protected] -Or, if you just need someone to speak to someone at your organization to let them know how dire this situation is, don't hesitate to reach out! -Share this message with your own networks so we can sound the alarm effectively. It is not too late to get moving on this, but if we wait another few months, it will be. I've got a lot of hope that we can rally the team and get this done, but it needs to happen today.

Joined #cgtn The Hub with Wang Guan to discuss the US presidential election. Some talking points: How do you see campaign finance shaping this election? First, we're seeing fast moving shifts in donations shaped by current events, the ability to monetize new developments in real time, like Trump’s legal issues, Biden’s debate performance and the Trump assassination attempt, Biden’s withdrawal, the Democrats quickly closing ranks around Harris, sparking a surge for her… Second, we’re there's competition between billionaires. Timothy Mellon recently gave $50 million to Trump’s super PAC and has donated more than $150 million in 2024 election cycle, believed to be a record, while Mike Bloomberg has given tens of millions to Democrats... Harris appears to have an advantage among young, who are heavily influenced by online media. Butt will young voters actually show up and vote? There’s been a significant uptick in young people joining the Harris campaign as volunteers, mobilizing in part because they tend to support younger and more progressive candidates. While many KOLs have supported the Democrats, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of conservative commentary, including some of the biggest influencers in the US, like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and others, who favor Trump. The bottom line is young people showed up for Obama and they are more likely to show up for Harris than Biden. We'll have to see if they remain energized. Given the increasing influence of social media and digital platforms on political campaigns, what new trends are you observing in how these platforms affect voter engagement and campaign strategies?   First, the market for political advertising this election cycle has been estimated at roughly $16 billion in the 2024 cycle, 30% increase over 2020.   Second, we’ve seen campaigns paying more attention to engagement rates, the role of AI, and attempts to manipulate algorithms. US billionaire Mark Cuban recently said this election being decided substantially by AI-generated algorithms, and whichever campaign was most effective at gaming them. We might recall here that Obama’s victory in his second election has been attributed largely to being at the then-cutting edge of using technology to direct voter turnout, and no doubt both campaigns are mindful of such lessons in the broader sense. Third, last election large US companies felt pressure to support social media campaigns like #blm and #metoo, which benefited Biden. This election there's no comparable campaign underway and corporates are being less direct anyway. They need to support certain causes to be part of the conversation and not alienate customers, but more indirectly to avoid voters on the other side. Fourth, we may see October and even November surprises fueled by a tsunami of viral media campaigns, including disinformation and deep fakes, already present in part, but sequenced late to shape opinions at the last minute, before campaigns can adequately respond.

🎊 Join New Voters in Celebrating Vote Early Day this Fall! 🎊 We are signing up to empower voters to cast their ballots early by celebrating Vote Early Day this fall. Join us to make early voting the biggest party of the year! Created in 2020, Vote Early Day is a national civic holiday celebrated by thousands of businesses, nonprofits, election administrators, campus groups, and creatives unite each year to build activations that provide Americans with the tools and knowledge to overcome Election Day hurdles by voting early. When we vote early, voters ensure last-minute problems, long lines at the polls, confusing election laws, or voter disinformation cannot prevent us from casting our ballots. We are proud to join national partners like Patagonia, Lyft, The League of Women Voters, MTV Viacom, Snap Inc., The Y (YMCA), NAACP, and thousands of diverse partners on the ground in all 50 states. Through this diverse collaboration, Vote Early Day partners can break through the political noise and meet voters, especially disaffected and historically marginalized communities, where they are. During the last presidential election, defined by a global pandemic, Americans voted early in record-breaking numbers. Over 100 million people cast their ballot ahead of Election Day, more than the total early vote in the 2016 and 2018 elections combined. We have seen early voting increase year after year, and 2024 will provide a critical opportunity to prove we can change the culture of voting by making Election Day the last day to vote. The work we do together this fall will ensure we can rise to the challenge of uplifting voters as they decide who will lead our country as President, who will represent them in Congress, and the fate of many state elections and ballot referenda. In 2024, we must maintain momentum to ensure that the voices of every American voter are heard. If you are as inspired to help Americans vote early as we are, we invite you to join this growing civic holiday at https://lnkd.in/epJXnq9X.

New Post: With 26 days until voting starts, 'election season' kicks off sooner than you think - https://lnkd.in/gnT2nbzE There are 86 days until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5.But if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day.Early voting starts as soon as Sept. 6 for eligible voters, with seven battleground states sending out ballots to at least some voters the same month.It makes the next few months less a countdown to Election Day, and more the beginning of "election season."VANCE PRAISED FOR 'ABSOLUTE FIRE' TAKEDOWN OF HARRIS-WALZ 'TAG TEAM' RIOT ENABLERS: 'MAKE AMERICA BURN AGAIN' Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military or people with illnesses. In some states, almost every voter casts a ballot by mail.Many states expanded eligibility in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it riskier to vote in-person.That year, the Fox News Voter Analysis found that 71% of voters cast their ballots before Election Day, with 30% voting early in-person and 41% voting by mail.Early voting remained popular in the midterms, with 57% of voters casting a ballot before Election Day.TIM WALZ'S SELECTION AS HARRIS RUNNING MATE DRAWS SKEPTICISM, EVEN AMONG ANTI-TRUMP FIGURES A voter fills out a ballot in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Elections officials stress that voting early is safe and secure. Recounts, investigations and lawsuits filed after the 2020 election did not reveal evidence of widespread fraud or corruption. The difference between "early in-person" and "mail" or "absentee" voting.There are a few ways to vote before Election Day.The first is early in-person voting, where a voter casts a regular ballot in-person at a voting center before Election Day.The second is voting by mail, where the process and eligibility varies by state.Eight states vote mostly by mail, including California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. Registered voters receive ballots and send them back.Most states allow any registered voter to request a mail ballot and send it back. This is also called mail voting, or sometimes absentee voting. Depending on the state, voters can return their ballot by mail, at a drop box, and/or at an office or facility that accepts mail ballots.In 14 states, voters must have an excuse to vote by mail, ranging from illness, age, work hours or if a voter is out of their home county on Election Day.States process and tabulate ballots at different times. Some states don’t begin counting ballots until election night, which delays the release of results.Voting begins on Sept. 6 in North Carolina, with seven more battleground states starting that monthThis list of early voting dates is for guidance only. For comprehensive and up-to-dat

The Verdict Spells Trouble For Felon 45 WASHINGTON − As former President Donald Trump resumes full-time campaigning after his conviction in his New York hush money case, a top target is a relatively small group of Americans who could have decisive influence in November: Moderate and non-partisan voters reluctant to support someone convicted of a felony. Initial polls indicate the guilty verdict isn't changing many minds. Trump's conservative Republican base hasn't left him, and the conviction certainly didn't help the former president among his critics. But surveys over the last week still suggest the unprecedented verdict may change enough minds to make the difference in close battleground states this fall. Democrats and Republicans have both tried to use the trial to court moderate voters. Trump, who will campaign in Arizona and Nevada in the coming days, has touted his fundraising hauls in the wake of the verdict and predicted a voter backlash against the case. "It's possible that our numbers are better now than they were three weeks ago," Trump said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on Newsmax. Prep for the polls: Still, Democrats, looking at some of the same polls, said the only question is how much the conviction hurts Trump. “Outside the MAGA base, we believe a majority of Americans do not want to vote for a convicted criminal obsessed with regaining power at any cost and seeking revenge for his own problems," said James Singer, a spokesman for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. But how do pivotal voters actually feel about Trump being found guilty on 34 criminal counts in New York? Here's what you need to know. Scouring the early polls So far, the numbers don't show much post-verdict change in a close Biden-Trump race − but even a small number could make a big difference in the swing states that will decide the Electoral College. A Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Friday reported that "ten percent of Republican registered voters say they are less likely to vote" for Trump following his conviction. "Among independent registered voters," the poll said, "25% said Trump's conviction made them less likely to support him in November, compared to 18% who said they were more likely" to back Trump. Overall, the Reuters/Ipsos poll gave Biden a 41%-39% lead, well within the margin of error for the survey. A HarrisX poll following the Thursday verdict said undecided voters are "still splitting 50/50 for Biden and Trump despite saying that they think Trump is guilty." A 538/ABC News analysis also reported that "the verdict also doesn’t seem to have changed many people’s minds about the case." It added, however, that "the verdict has made a small but significant share of potential Trump supporters less likely to vote for him."

RFK Jr.'s campaign debates whether to drop out to boost Donald Trump's chances https://ift.tt/HkSV5nC Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s VP pick Nicole Shanahan (left) said the pair's campaign is considering whether to drop out and endorse Trump. Anadolu/Getty Images RFK Jr.'s VP pick, Nicole Shanahan, suggested the two may drop out to boost Donald Trump's chances. Shanahan said Kennedy risks tipping the election to Harris by pulling votes from Trump. Kennedy has reportedly done outreach to both campaigns to shop his endorsement. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign is debating whether to drop out of the 2024 election in order to help Donald Trump's chances of winning, his VP Nicole Shanahan said. In an Tuesday interview on the podcast "Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu," Shanahan detailed the position her and RFK Jr. find themselves in. "There's two options that we're looking at," Shanahan told Bilyeu in the episode. "One is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Waltz presidency because we draw votes from Trump or we draw somehow more votes from Trump. Or we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump." She also said it could benefit her and Kennedy to stay in the 2024 presidential race to form an independent party. If she and RFK Jr. get even 5% of the vote, it would establish them as a party and help them access public funding. And that funding, Shanahan said, could help "keep the party going." "That's worth something," she continued. "That means that we can position for a real third-party election in 2028 where we don't have to go around and spend tens of millions of dollars on ballot access, which means that we can spend all of that time and money campaigning." Shanahan concluded that it's "not an easy decision," adding that if they were to drop out, she would consider running for California governor. "I did not put in tens of millions of dollars to be a spoiler candidate," Shanahan said at one point in the interview. Shanahan is a Silicon Valley lawyer who has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates, including Pete Buttigieg, since 2018. But now she's joined forces with Kennedy, giving his third-party run a needed financial boost. Last week, The Washington Post reported that Kennedy had reached out to Kamala Harris' campaign with an offer to endorse her in exchange for a position in her cabinet. And Kennedy's son posted a since-deleted video last month of a phone conversation between Kennedy and Trump. The Washington Post later reported that Kennedy suggested he could oversee health services in a Trump administration in exchange for dropping out and endorsing him. When reached for comment, the Kennedy campaign directed Business Insider to a Kennedy post on X. "As always, I am willing to talk with leaders of any political party to further the goals I have served for 40 years in my career and in this campaign," the independent party candidate wrote. "These are: rever...

The United States has a primary problem. With somewhere close to half of Americans choosing not to associate with either major party, an ever-smaller number of voters decide who you get to choose from in the general election. And this year, more than 60% of Americans say they don’t want either Biden or Trump, but Trump is polling to narrowly beat Biden in the general election. As a never-Trumper, I’m all in for the No Labels effort to introduce a third-party, unity ticket as an in-case-of-emergency solution. But if you’re worried about any unintended consequences to that, there’s something you can do RIGHT NOW to stop Trump from winning. And that’s to participate in your state Republican Party primary, regardless of your current registration. Depending on your state, it’s generally very easy to do IF YOU DO IT NOW. Don’t sit on the sidelines and watch this disaster happen from the comfort of your recliner. Visit https://vote.gov/ to find out when and how you can register to participate to stop Trump. Tell all your friends to do the same, especially in early-voting states (Iowa is same-day voter registration; New Hampshire is a semi-open primary, where independents can participate in the Republican primary; and South Carolina is an open primary for all—so very few excuses for concerned voters in those states to sit out the primary). #voters #votered2024 #voterregistration #NoLabels

New Post: With 28 days until voting starts, 'election season' kicks off sooner than you think - https://lnkd.in/gsucGeZG There are 88 days until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5.But if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day.Early voting starts as soon as Sept. 6 for eligible voters, with seven battleground states sending out ballots to at least some voters the same month.It makes the next few months less a countdown to Election Day, and more the beginning of "election season."VANCE PRAISED FOR 'ABSOLUTE FIRE' TAKEDOWN OF HARRIS-WALZ 'TAG TEAM' RIOT ENABLERS: 'MAKE AMERICA BURN AGAIN' Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military or people with illnesses. In some states, almost every voter casts a ballot by mail.Many states expanded eligibility in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it riskier to vote in-person.That year, the Fox News Voter Analysis found that 71% of voters cast their ballots before Election Day, with 30% voting early in-person and 41% voting by mail.Early voting remained popular in the midterms, with 57% of voters casting a ballot before Election Day.TIM WALZ'S SELECTION AS HARRIS RUNNING MATE DRAWS SKEPTICISM, EVEN AMONG ANTI-TRUMP FIGURES A voter fills out a ballot in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Elections officials stress that voting early is safe and secure. Recounts, investigations and lawsuits filed after the 2020 election did not reveal evidence of widespread fraud or corruption. The difference between "early in-person" and "mail" or "absentee" voting.There are a few ways to vote before Election Day.The first is early in-person voting, where a voter casts a regular ballot in-person at a voting center before Election Day.The second is voting by mail, where the process and eligibility varies by state.Eight states vote mostly by mail, including California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. Registered voters receive ballots and send them back.Most states allow any registered voter to request a mail ballot and send it back. This is also called mail voting, or sometimes absentee voting. Depending on the state, voters can return their ballot by mail, at a drop box, and/or at an office or facility that accepts mail ballots.In 14 states, voters must have an excuse to vote by mail, ranging from illness, age, work hours or if a voter is out of their home county on Election Day.States process and tabulate ballots at different times. Some states don’t begin counting ballots until election night, which delays the release of results.Voting begins on Sept. 6 in North Carolina, with seven more battleground states starting that monthThis list of early voting dates is for guidance only. For comprehensive and up-to-dat