Clinton Campaign Touts Ground Game in PA

“Here in Pennsylvania, our campaign is running as though we’re ten points behind, taking absolutely nothing for granted,” Hillary for Pennsylvania State Director Corey Dukes writes in a memo to staff and supporters. “For months, the coordinated campaign has been organizing both online and on the ground. To mobilize and help elect Hillary Clinton and Democrats at every level, we have coordinated at all levels and in all aspects of the campaign to ensure resources are maximized up and down the ballot.”
Dukes notes that the Clinton campaign and the DNC have 55 offices throughout the commonwealth compared to the RNC’s six. The Dems are also focusing intensely on the all-important collar counties (Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery) that surround Philadelphia, as almost two dozen of their offices are located in SEPA.
Most of the memo is focused on the efforts the campaign has made to register voters in Philly and the rest of the state as well as the division among prominent PA Republicans towards Trump.
The most illuminating sections, though, still pertain to the campaign’s infrastructure.
“Since August 1, we’ve had 14,153 volunteers complete at least one volunteer shift, recruited hundreds of neighborhood team leaders, made 2.5 million phone calls, and volunteers have completed more 87,675 hours of activity, including phone banking, door knocking and voter registration, among others,” Dukes reveals.
The Clinton team believes those efforts will make the difference come Election Day.