Trump Outsources Field Work To Far-Right Groups

The Washington Post reports:

With fewer than 100 days before the election, local GOP officials in battleground states have raised alarms about the scant presence of Trump campaign field staff. For the large armies of paid and volunteer door-knockers and canvassers who typically drive turnout in presidential elections, the campaign is largely relying on outside groups such as America First Works, America PAC and Turning Point Action.

The Trump campaign’s shrunken in-house operation resulted from its takeover of the RNC in March, when Trump secured the nomination. The RNC had been planning an extensive field program. Those now-discarded plans included 88 staff members and 12 offices. Past experiments with outsourcing field operations, most notably Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s heavy reliance on a super PAC in the Republican presidential primary race, have wound up as expensive boondoggles.

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Trump team gambles on new ground game capitalizing on loosened federal rules — a strategy that has moved costs away from the campaign and RNC, created a big marketplace for other Republican consultants & donors and comes with risks. W/⁦@iarnsdorf⁩: https://t.co/kJvDG0wojV

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