Madison, Wisconsin. – Democrat The state believes that it has been preparing the groundwork to win the 2024 presidential elections for almost seven years.
Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Ben Wickler told Fox News Digital in an interview that his “everything, everywhere, at the same time” and neighbor-to-neighbor organization is building the infrastructure to overcome criticism from the vice president-elect. Democrat Harris. Battlefield state.
He said Wisconsin Democrats “over the last seven years” have consistently “created neighborhood groups to take responsibility for talking to people in their neighborhoods.”
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Harris' campaign is building on the foundation Democrats have spent years building, he said.
Wickler attributes this organizing strategy to Democrats' recent state election victories over the past six years.
“What we know is that a trusted messenger is almost as important as the message,” Wickler said. “And Democrats in rural areas are talking to other rural voters, in the suburbs talking to other suburban voters, in cities talking to other urban residents about their vote.”
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“We believe the messages Harris and Walz convey can resonate with everyone,” he said. “And having a messenger who can actually start that conversation and not just at the conversational level, but at the 'what's really happening in our lives and at the community level' makes all the difference.”
Wickler noted that “Wisconsin is the perennial tipping point state,” citing past electoral swings, from former President Trump in 2016 to President Biden in 2020.
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A woman in Wisconsin wears a cheese hat with an American flag (Reuters)
“On the Democratic side, we had a real volunteer base and 16,000 people made their first voluntary transfers with the Democrats” since Harris was nominated late in the campaign.
He criticized Republicans and affiliates for “using paid canvassers, people who are hired to knock on doors but don’t necessarily have a connection to the community they’re talking to.”
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“I think we will see in the end which of these strategies will have the biggest impact,” Wickler added.
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This week, Fox News Power Rankings rated Wisconsin a “scramble” ahead of the presidential election.
On the ground, both Republicans and Democrats hope the state will come down to just a few thousand votes, as happened in 2016 and 2020.
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